Qin and Han · Scholar and Commentator

Ma Rong 馬融

Attested AD 100 - AD 166

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Ma Rong was a scholar and Commentator.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 100 to AD 166 馬（馬融）
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 191, 210

Places and affiliations

Polity Eastern Han 東漢 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 191

Events and relationships

Cited as differing from Zheng on classical interpretation
Scholarly · Authority
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 191
Relation Paired classical authority with · Person Zheng Xuan (鄭玄)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 191, 210

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 191, 210

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 33Volume 33 Biographies 14: Wang Sengqian, Zhang Xu · 2 passages

汝開《老子》卷頭五尺許，未知輔嗣何所道，平叔何所說，馬、鄭何所異，《指》《例》何所明，而便盛於麈尾，自呼談士，此最險事。 You unfold the Laozi a foot or five into the first fascicle, yet cannot say what Fusi argued, what Pingshu taught, where Ma and Zheng part company, what the Pointers and Examples make plain—and already you brandish the fly-whisk and call yourself a talker. That is the deadliest folly.

設令吾學如馬、鄭，亦必甚勝； Suppose I had studied like Ma and Zheng, I would surely have stood far above you;