Song, Liao, and Jin · Hanlin Academician Director

Ma Dechen 馬得臣

Mǎ Déchén

Died AD 989

Passages
10
Chapters
3
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Ma Dechen as an official, poet, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 10 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Ma Dechen 馬得臣 Mǎ Déchén
Given Dechen 得臣
Surname Ma
Surname Ma
Personal name Ma Dechen 馬得臣 Mǎ Déchén

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official
  • Poet
  • Scholar
  • Statesman
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和七年六月甲戌 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 989
    Explicit · liaoshi:012:s0170
  • Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0070

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 乾亨初 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 979
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0114
  • Source Date: Text: 統和二年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 984
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:010:s0155
  • Source Date: Text: 統和六年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 988
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:012:s0071, liaoshi:012:s0089
  • Source Date: Text: 統和七年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 989
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:012:s0149, liaoshi:012:s0170
  • Source Date: Text: 保寧間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 969 · End: AD 979
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0113
  • Source Date: Text: 聖宗即位 · Western Year: AD 983
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0115

Career and standing

  • Label: deputy garrison commander of Nanjing / 南京副留守 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾亨初 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 979
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0114
  • Label: Hanlin academician director / 翰林學士承旨 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾亨初 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 979
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0114
  • Label: drafting academician for political affairs / 政事舍人 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保寧間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 969 · End: AD 979
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0113
  • Label: Hanlin academician / 翰林學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保寧間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 969 · End: AD 979
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0113
  • Label: acting commissioner of the Xuanhui Court / 權宣徽院事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:012:s0089
  • Label: administrator of the Palace Privy Office / 知宣徽院事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0119
  • Label: Xuanzheng Hall academician / 宣政殿學士 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0155
  • Label: attendant reader academician / 侍讀學士 · Action: granted-additional · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 聖宗即位 · Western Year: AD 983
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0115
  • Label: Remonstrance and Review Grand Master / 諫議大夫 · Action: granted-additional
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0119
  • Label: Hanlin academician director / 翰林學士承旨 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0155
  • Label: marching staff adviser and Xuanzheng Hall academician / 行軍參謀、宣政殿學士 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:012:s0071
  • Label: Remonstrance and Review Grand Master / 諫議大夫 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:012:s0149
  • Label: Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子太保 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0070
  • Title: Junior Mentor of the Heir Apparent / 太子少保 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · liaoshi:012:s0170

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: cited High Tang governance to remonstrate · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0109
  • Assessment: uprightness · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0113
  • Item: ten thousand coins and a hundred piculs of grain / 錢十萬,粟百石 · Relation: bestowed
    Explicit · liaoshi:012:s0170

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 10Volume 10 Annals 10: Shengzong 1 · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 12Volume 12 Annals 12: Shengzong 3 · 4 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 80Volume 80 Biographies 10: Zhang Jian, Xing Baopu, Ma Dechen, Xiao Pu, Yelu Eight Brothers · 5 passages