Ma Gao (馬縞) | 24 Histories

Overview

Ma Gao was an official and Scholar.

PeriodFive Dynasties

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Life and dates

Death

Age Value: 80 · Reckoning: Sui
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 55, passage 183

Age

Value: 80 · Reckoning: Sui
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 55, passage 183

Attested activity

AD 930 source
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 55, passage 144

Career and standing

rector of the Imperial University 國子祭酒
Reassigned to
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 55, passage 182
minister of war 兵部尚書
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 55, passage 183

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Liang 梁 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 55, passage 145

Learning and skills

Earned
Credential Hongci 宏詞
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 55, passage 144
Earned
Credential Mingjing 明經
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 55, passage 144

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Quote true
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 55, passage 148

Events and relationships

Ancestral temple titles
Ritual debate · Proposer
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 55, passages 148, 162

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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 55Volume 55 Miscellaneous Biographies 35: Liu Xu, Lu Wenji, Ma Yinxun, Yao Yi, Liu Yue, Ma Gao, Cui Jujian, Cui Zhuo, Li Yi · 10 passages

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馬縞，不知其世家，少舉明經，又舉宏詞。 Ma Gao's lineage is unknown. In youth he passed the Mingjing examination and also the Hongci examination.

縞言：「漢諸侯王入繼統者，必別立親廟，光武皇帝立四廟於南陽，請如漢故事，立廟以申孝享。」 Gao said: "When Han feudal princes entered to succeed to the imperial line, they always separately established temples to their own parents. Emperor Guangwu established four temples at Nanyang. I request that Han precedent be followed and temples established to extend filial sacrifice."

明宗下其議，禮部尚書蕭頃等請如縞議。 Mingzong referred the proposal for discussion. Minister of Rites Xiao Qing and others supported Gao's plan.

縞以謂孝穆、孝崇有皇而無帝，惟吳孫皓尊其父和為文皇帝，不可以為法。 Gao argued that Xiaomu and Xiaochong bore the title emperor in name but not in full form, and that only Sun Hao of Wu had honored his father as Emperor Wen—a precedent that could not be followed.

右僕射李琪等議與縞同。 Right vice director Li Qi and others agreed with Gao.

劉嶽修《書儀》，其所增損，皆決於縞。 When Liu Yue revised the Ceremonial Forms, Gao decided every addition and deletion.

縞又言：「缞麻喪紀，所以別親疏，辨嫌疑。 Gao also said: "Hemp mourning and mourning regulations are what distinguish closeness and distance of kin and resolve doubts and suspicions.

令有五服，自縞始也。 The statute's five mourning grades began with Gao.

縞明宗時嘗坐覆獄不當，貶綏州司馬。 Under Mingzong, Gao once mishandled a case review and was demoted to military adjutant of Suizhou.

盧文紀作相，以其迂儒鄙之，改國子祭酒。 When Lu Wenji became chancellor, he despised Gao as a pedantic scholar and reassigned him to rector of the Imperial University.