Ma Gao (馬縞) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Ma Gao as an official and scholar. This record brings together 6 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Ma Gao	馬縞	Ma Gao
Personal	Ma Gao	馬縞
Personal name	Ma Gao	馬縞	Ma Gao

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Value: male
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Roles

Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Age

Stated Age: 八十 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興四年 · Western Year: AD 933
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 龍德元年三月壬寅 · Regnal Year: 1 · Lunar Month: 3 · Sexagenary Day: 壬寅 · Western Year: AD 921
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Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 923 · Source Date: Text: 仕梁，為太常修撰，累曆尚書郎，參知禮院事，遷太常少卿。
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Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
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Source Date: Text: 長興四年 · Western Year: AD 933
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Career and standing

Label: Crown Prince Guest; formerly Director of the Secretariat / 太子賓客、秘書監 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
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Label: Vice Minister of Revenue / 戶部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興四年 · Western Year: AD 933
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Label: Rector of the Imperial University / 國子祭酒 · Action: held
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Label: Secretariat Drafter / 中書舍人 · Action: held
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Later Liang · Relation: served
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Learning and skills

Credential: Classics examination / 明經 · Action: earned
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Credential: Outstanding Selections / 拔萃 · Action: earned
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Works and attributed material

Kind: proposal · Role: author · Status: paraphrased · Summary: requested renaming Yan, Jiaoyi, and Hanzhu counties as Yanxia, Yifu, and Jiaoyuan · Provenance: Mode: narrative-attribution · Source Person Id: Ma Gao (馬縞)
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References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 10Volume 10 Book of Later Liang 10: Later Emperors Annals 3 · 1 passage

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壬寅，改襄州鄢縣為沿夏縣，亳州焦夷縣為夷父縣，密州漢諸縣為膠源縣，從中書舍人馬縞請也。 On renyin three counties were renamed at Secretariat Drafter Ma Gao’s request: Yan to Yanxia, Jiaoyi to Yifu, Hanzhu to Jiaoyuan.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

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癸亥，以太常少卿盧文紀為秘書監，以秘書監馬縞為太子賓客，左監門上將軍羅周敬為右領軍上將軍，前懷州刺史婁繼英為左監門上將軍。 On guihai Lu Wenji of rites became secretariat director; Ma Gao of the secretariat became crown prince guest; Luo Zhoujing of the left gate became right collar general; former Huai prefect Lou Jiying became left gate general.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 71Volume 71 Book of Later Tang 47: Biographies 23: Ma Yu, Si Kongting, Cao Tingyin, Xiao Xifu, Yao Zongzhi, Jia Fu, Ma Gao, Luo Guan, Chun Yuyan, Zhang Ge, Xu Ji, Zhou Xuanbao · 4 passages

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馬縞，少嗜學儒，以明經及第，登拔萃之科。 Ma Gao loved Confucian learning from youth; he passed the Classics examination and also gained entry through the Outstanding Selections category.

梁代諸王納嬪，公主下嫁，皆於宮殿門庭行揖讓之禮，縞以為非禮，上疏止之，物議以為然。 When Liang princes took brides and princesses married down, bowing and yielding rites were performed in the palace gates and courtyards; Gao held this improper and memorialized to stop it, and public opinion agreed.

縞時年已八十，及為國子祭酒，八十餘矣，形氣不衰。 He was already eighty then; when he became Rector of the Imperial University he was over eighty, yet his bearing and vigor had not faded.

馬縞知禮院時，不曾論定，今遽上疏駁令式，罪人也。」 When Ma Gao managed the Bureau of Rites he never raised this; now he rashly memorializes against the statutes—he is guilty of a crime."