Ma Xisheng (馬希聲) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Ma Xisheng as a general, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 6 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Ma Xisheng	馬希聲	Ma Xisheng
Personal name	Ma Xisheng	馬希聲	Mǎ Xīshēng
Given	Xisheng	希聲	Xīshēng
Descriptive kinship	Yin's son Xisheng	子希聲

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:102:s0049, xinwudaishi:071:s0036

Roles

General
Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興三年八月 · Regnal Year: 3 · Month: 8 · Western Year: AD 932
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0036, xinwudaishi:071:s0038, xinwudaishi:071:s0041
Statement: died within a year of succession · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Old History of the Five Dynasties / 五代舊史
Textual variant · xinwudaishi:071:s0037, xinwudaishi:071:s0042

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 長興三年八月 · Regnal Year: 3 · Month: 8 · Western Year: AD 932
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0036, xinwudaishi:071:s0038, xinwudaishi:071:s0041
Source Date: Text: 長興元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 930
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0036, xinwudaishi:071:s0038
Source Date: Text: 乾祐二年 · Western Year: AD 949
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:102:s0049

Family

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Child of Ma Yin (馬殷)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: military commissioner / 節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 930
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0038
Title: Prince of Hengyang / 衡陽王 · Action: posthumously-enfeoffed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:102:s0049
Status: resuming-office-from-mourning · Action: entered · Label: resuming office from mourning leave / 起復 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 930
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0038
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 930
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0036

Places and affiliations

Label: Chu / 楚 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · xinwudaishi:071:s0036

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 102Volume 102 Book of Later Jin 4: Emperor Yin Annals 2 · 1 passage

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五月甲辰朔，故湖南節度使、檢校太尉、兼中書令、扶風郡公、贈太師馬希聲追封衡陽王。 In the fifth month, on the first day, jiachen, the former Hunan military governor, Acting Grand Marshal, concurrent Grand Councilor, Duke of Fufeng, and posthumously honored Grand Preceptor Ma Xisheng was posthumously enfeoffed as Prince of Hengyang.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 71Volume 71: Timeline for the Hereditary Houses of the Ten Kingdoms · 5 passages

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馬氏，據《湖湘故事》、《九國志》、《運歷圖》，並雲殷以長興元年卒，是歲，子希聲立，長興三年卒。 For the Ma clan of Chu: according to the Huxiang Gushi, the Jiuguo Zhi, and the Yunli Tu, all agree that Yin died in the first year of Changxing; that year his son Xisheng succeeded, and Xisheng died in the third year of Changxing.

而《五代舊史》殷列傳云，殷長興二年卒，享年七十八，子希聲立，不周歲而卒； But the biography of Yin in the Old History of the Five Dynasties says he died in the second year of Changxing at the age of seventy-eight, that his son Xisheng succeeded him, and that Xisheng died within a year;

明宗本紀長興元年，書希聲除節度使，起復，三年八月，又書希聲卒。 The annals of Emperor Mingzong for the first year of Changxing record Xisheng's appointment as military commissioner, resuming office from mourning leave; in the eighth month of the third year they again record Xisheng's death.

而希聲，據《湖湘故事》、《九國志》、《運歷圖》皆以三年卒，與明宗本紀皆合，不疑。 As for Xisheng, the Huxiang Gushi, the Jiuguo Zhi, and the Yunli Tu all place his death in the third year, which agrees with the annals of Mingzong—there is no doubt here.

惟《舊史》書殷卒二年，及年七十八，希聲立不周歲卒為繆爾。 Only the Old History's claim that Yin died in the second year at the age of seventy-eight and that Xisheng died within a year of succeeding is mistaken.