Qing · Hui Military Officer and Rebel

Ma Rong 馬榮

Attested AD 1863 - AD 1865

Passages: 10
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Ma Rong as an assassin, military officer, and rebel. This record brings together 10 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Ma Rong	馬榮	Ma Rong
Personal name	Ma Rong	馬榮
Given	Rong	榮	Rong
Given	Rong	榮

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:393:s0165, qingshigao:393:s0166
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0105

Roles

Assassin
Military Officer
Rebel

Life and dates

Death

Manner: eliminated by Ma Rulong and others · Killer Person Id: Ma Rulong (馬如龍)
Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0124

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 同治二年正月 · Western Year: AD 1863
Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0106
Source Date: Text: 同治四年 · Western Year: AD 1865
Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0165, qingshigao:393:s0166

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Hui / 回
Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0105

Career and standing

Label: acting battalion commander of Wuding Camp / 署武定營參將 · Action: appointed · Authority Person Id: Xu Zhiming (徐之銘)
Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0105

Events and relationships

Kind: rebellion · Role: leader · Action: seized Wuhua Academy with 2000 men; murdered Pan Duo; plundered capital · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治二年正月 · Western Year: AD 1863
Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0106, qingshigao:396:s0108
Relation: follower-of · Person Id: Du Wenxiu (杜文秀)
Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0105

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 393Volume 393 Biographies 180: Li Xingyuan, Zhou Tianjue, Lao Chongguang · 2 passages

逆首馬榮、馬連升踞曲靖為巢穴。 The rebel leaders Ma Rong and Ma Liansheng held Qujing as their base.

崇光知候補道岑毓英、降回總兵馬如龍可用，四年春，令參將馮世興與二人合師攻克曲靖，擒榮、連升等斬以徇，遂收馬龍、尋甸，迤東肅清，遣提督趙德光克平江外賊巢，复廣順，進克貴州，黔西大定。 Chongguang knew that expectant circuit intendant Cen Yuying and the surrendered Muslim major-general Ma Rulong were capable commanders; in the spring of 1865 he ordered brigade commander Feng Shixing to join them in a combined force that captured Qujing, seized Rong, Liansheng, and others and executed them as a warning, then recovered Malong and Xundian and pacified eastern Yunnan; he dispatched military commander Zhao Deguang to destroy rebel nests beyond the rivers, recovered Guangshun, advanced into Guizhou, and secured western Guizhou.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 396Volume 396 Biographies 183: Wu Wenrong, Pan Duo, Deng Erheng · 8 passages

馬榮者，迤西回酋杜文秀之黨，之銘檄署武定營參將。 Ma Rong was a follower of Du Wenxiu, the Hui chieftain of western Yunnan, whom Zhiming appointed acting battalion commander of Wuding Camp.

二年正月，榮忽率二千人至省城，踞五華書院，鐸令出，遷延三日，乃親往諭遣，榮抗恣不聽，其所部回練遽攢刺，鐸臨殞罵不絕口。 In the first month of the second year Rong suddenly led two thousand men into the provincial capital and seized Wuhua Academy. Duo ordered him to withdraw; after three days' delay he went in person to admonish and dismiss him, but Rong defiantly refused. The Hui militia under his command suddenly closed in with daggers, and Duo cursed without cease as he died.

榮遂縱兵大掠，官衙民居悉遍。 Rong then let his troops plunder freely; government offices and private homes alike were ravaged.

馬如龍在臨安，聞警馳至，馬榮已率眾攜所掠散去。 Ma Rulong was at Lin'an; when he heard the alarm he rushed to the capital, but Ma Rong had already led his men away with their plunder.

當鐸之親諭馬榮也，約之銘同往，竟不至。 When Duo went in person to admonish Ma Rong, he invited Zhiming to accompany him, but Zhiming never came.

事定，疏奏諉為杜文秀勾結武定匪犯省城，又諱匿馬榮委署參將事。 When the affair was settled, he memorialized blaming the attack on Du Wenxiu's collusion with Wuding bandits, and also concealed Ma Rong's acting appointment as battalion commander.

論者謂榮之為亂，之銘實與知之。 Commentators held that Zhiming had known in advance about Rong's rebellion.

馬榮已先為如龍等剿除，之銘亦死，迄未就逮雲。 Ma Rong had already been eliminated by Rulong and others; Zhiming also died, and was never brought to Yunnan to face arrest.