Ma Guizhong (馬貴中)

Overview

Ma Guizhong was an Astronomer and Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1170 大定十年
Directly stated · History of Jin 131, passage 121
AD 1158 正隆三年
Directly stated · History of Jin 131, passage 100
AD 1161 正隆六年
Directly stated · History of Jin 131, passage 109
AD 1168 大定八年
Directly stated · History of Jin 131, passage 117
AD 1149 to AD 1153 天德中
Directly stated · History of Jin 131, passage 97

Career and standing

director of the Directorate of Astronomy 司天監
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Jin 131, passage 99
assistant magistrate of Datong Prefecture 大同府判官
Demoted
Directly stated · History of Jin 131, passage 98
supervisor of the Directorate of Astronomy 司天提點
Held
Directly stated · History of Jin 131, passage 97
Received
Beaten · Authority Emperor Hailing (海陵)
Directly stated · History of Jin 131, passage 98

Places and affiliations

Polity Jin 金 · Relation Served
Directly stated · History of Jin 131, passages 6, 55

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Addressed to Emperor Hailing (海陵)
Directly stated · History of Jin 131, passages 103-106, 108, 110-111, 114
Memorial · Author · Addressed to Emperor Shizong of Jin (金世宗)
Directly stated · History of Jin 131, passages 117-118

Events and relationships

Remonstrated against hunting and cuju
Remonstrance · Remonstrator
Directly stated · History of Jin 131, passage 117

Assessments and attributes

Assessment prognostications verified when Hailing died at Yangzhou · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Jin 131, passage 116

References in the histories

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History

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History of Jin, Chapter 131Volume 131 Biographies 69: Huan Zhe, Liang Chong, Song Gui, Pan Shouheng, Fang Ji, Liu Wansu, Zhang Congzheng, Li Qingsi, Ji Tianxi, Zhang Yuansu, Ma Guizhong, Wu Zhen Son: Kang, Li Mao, Hu Dexin · 11 passages

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馬貴中 Ma Guizhong

馬貴中，天德中，為司天提點。 During the Tiande era Ma Guizhong served as supervisor of the Directorate of Astronomy.

與校書郎高守元奏天象災異忤旨，海陵皆杖之，黜貴中為大同府判官。 He and the proofreader Gao Shouyuan memorialized on celestial omens and disasters in a way that displeased the emperor. Hailing had them both beaten and demoted Guizhong to assistant magistrate of Datong Prefecture.

是日，候之不食，海陵謂貴中曰：「自今凡遇日食皆面奏，不須頒示內外。」 That day they waited, but the sun was not eclipsed. Hailing told Guizhong, "From now on, whenever an eclipse is due, report to me in person. Do not issue proclamations inside and outside the court."

貴中對曰：「去年十月甲戌，熒惑順入太微，至屏星，留、退、西出。 Guizhong answered, "Last year, in the tenth month on the jiaxu day, Mars entered the Supreme Palace in direct motion, reached Screen Star, halted, retreated, and emerged to the west.

鎮戎軍地震大風，海陵以問，貴中對曰：「伏陰逼陽，所以震也。」 At Zhenrong Army post there was an earthquake and a great wind. Hailing asked about it, and Guizhong replied, "Hidden yin presses upon yang — that is why the earth quakes."

貴中對曰：「前年八月二十九日，太白入太微右掖門，九月二日，至端門，九日，至左掖門出，並曆左右執法。 Guizhong answered, "The year before last, on the twenty-ninth day of the eighth month, Venus entered the right side gate of the Supreme Palace. On the second day of the ninth month it reached the central gate; on the ninth it passed out through the left side gate, traversing the left and right law-enforcers throughout.

貴中又曰； Guizhong added,

及被害於揚州，貴中之言皆驗。 When he was killed at Yangzhou, every word of Guizhong's proved true.

大定八年，世宗擊球于常武殿，貴中上疏諫曰：「陛下為天下主，守宗廟社稷之重，圍獵擊球皆危事也。 In the eighth year of Dading (1168), Emperor Shizong played cuju at the Ever Martial Hall. Guizhong submitted a memorial of remonstrance: "Your Majesty is lord of all under Heaven, charged with the ancestral temples and the altars of soil and grain. Hunting and cuju are dangerous pursuits.

上飲歡甚，貴中被酒，前跪欲言事，錯亂失次，上不之罪，但令扶出。 The emperor drank freely. Guizhong, drunk, knelt forward to speak on some matter, grew confused, and lost all decorum. The emperor did not punish him but had him helped out.