Overview
Ma Rong was a scholar and Teacher.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- AD 150 to AD 166 事扶風馬融Strongly inferred · Book of Later Han 40, passages 174, 176
- AD 147 to AD 159 桓帝時梁冀秉政Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passages 219-220
Key source chapters
Career and standing
- Administrator of Nan Commandery 南郡太守HeldDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 219
- shaved, flogged, and exiled 髡笞徙Corporal punishment and exile · SufferedDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 219
Places and affiliations
- Polity Eastern Han 東漢 · Relation ServedDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 219
- At Fufeng 扶風 · Relation Associated withDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 174
- At Shuofang 朔方 · Relation Exiled toDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 219
Works and attributed material
- reply to Liu Gui 答北地太守劉瑰Directly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 186
- When Zheng goes east, my teaching travels with him.Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Addressee Group disciplesDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 179
Events and relationships
- Assembled disciples to debate charts and weft texts then summoned Zheng XuanScholarly · TeacherDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 178
- Attempted suicide by stabbing survivedPersonal · AgentDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 220
- Framed flogged exiled to shuofangDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 219
- Relation Teacher of · Person Zheng Xuan (鄭玄)Directly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passages 174, 176
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment arguments thorough and deep; old-text learning became clear · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 186
- Assessment proud and lofty by nature · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 176
- Assessment when Zheng Xuan departed, Ma Rong said his way went east · Mode named-speech Speaker Ma Rong (馬融)Directly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 179
Source notes
- had more than four hundred disciples; over fifty admitted to the inner hallDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 175
References in the histories
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