Overview
The translated histories identify Ma Siming as an official and physician. This record brings together 8 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Ma Siming | 馬嗣明 | Ma Siming |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Uncertain
Roles
- Official
- Physician
Life and dates
Death
- Source Date: Text: 隋初 · Western Year: AD 581Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0191
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 顯祖時 / 天保 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:049:s0171
Career and standing
- Office: Regular Attendant in Direct Communication / 通直散騎常侍 · Action: transferredExplicit · beiqishu:049:s0182
Places and affiliations
- Place: Henei / 河內Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0171
- Place: Jinyang / 晉陽 · Relation: followed-imperial-progress-toExplicit · beiqishu:049:s0184
Learning and skills
- Skill: acupuncture and cautery / 針灸Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0183
- Skill: diagnosis / 診候Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0173
- Skill: medicine / 醫術Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0172
Works and attributed material
- Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0174
Events and relationships
- Kind: medical-treatment · Role: physician · Action: cured a family's daughter in Liaoyang hills
- Kind: medical-treatment · Role: physician · Other Person Id: Yang Yin (楊愔) · Action: cured back swelling with refined stone
- Kind: medical-diagnosis · Role: physician · Other Person Id: Xing Dabao (邢大寶) · Prediction: cold damage would heal but death within one year
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: could know life or death a year in advance · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · beiqishu:049:s0173
- Item: refined stone / 練石 · Relation: medical-use
References in the histories
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