Qin and Han · General

Ma Yuan 馬援

Mǎ Yuán

Attested AD 35 - AD 49

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Ma Yuan was a general.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 35 to AD 49 昔馬援
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 21

Events and relationships

Invoked as a model of equal feeling toward sons and nephews
Allusion · Exemplar
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 21

Assessments and attributes

Assessment made no distinction of feeling between sons and nephews · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Wang Sengqian (王僧虔)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 21

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 33Volume 33 Biographies 14: Wang Sengqian, Zhang Xu · 1 passage

僧虔曰：「昔馬援處兒姪之閒一情不異，鄧攸於弟子更逾所生，吾實懷其心，誠未異古。 Sengqian said: "Long ago Ma Yuan made no distinction of feeling between sons and nephews; Deng You toward his brother's son went even beyond what he owed his own children—I hold that same heart and am in no way unlike the ancients.