Zhang Lu

The source describes him as Zhang Daoling's grandson and Zhang Heng's son. His title Shijun expresses the conjunction of teaching and leadership. This inherited religious position should be distinguished from the political offices and honours he received during his career.

In Hanzhong, religious officers known as jijiu, or libationers, also undertook local administrative responsibilities. Accounts describe communal lodgings and food for travellers, together with rules of conduct and graduated responses to offences. These features show how a religious community could also organize everyday public life.

Cao Cao's campaign against Hanzhong in 215 ended Zhang Lu's independent rule. After withdrawing toward Bazhong, he submitted and received official honours. The event changed the political circumstances of the community rather than simply ending its religious tradition.

His place in later Celestial Masters ancestry links the early Hanzhong community with the longer history claimed by Zhengyi Dao. Comparing Zhang Lu with Kou Qianzhi makes the distinction clearer: later reform of inherited institutions did not erase the religious authority attached to earlier patriarchs.