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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 57 Volume 57 Miscellaneous Biographies 37: Li Song, Li Lin, Jia Wei, Duan Xiyao, Zhang Yun, Wang Song, Pei Hao, Wang Renyu, Pei Yu, Wang Yan, Ma Zhongji, Zhao Yanyi · 10 passages
○馬重績
Ma Zhongji
馬重績，字洞微，其先出於北狄，而世事軍中。
Ma Zhongji, styled Dongwei, was descended from the northern Di and for generations his family served in the military.
重績少學數術，明太一、五紀、八象、《三統大曆》，居於太原。
From youth Zhongji studied numerology and calendrical science; he mastered the Grand Unity, the Five Chronologies, the Eight Images, and the Comprehensive Calendar of the Three Unifications, and lived at Taiyuan.
唐莊宗鎮太原，每用兵征伐，必以問之，重績所言無不中，拜大理司直。
When Emperor Zhuangzong of Tang governed Taiyuan, he consulted Zhongji before every campaign; Zhongji's predictions never failed, and he was appointed directing officer of the Court of Judicial Review.
晉高祖以太原拒命，廢帝遣兵圍之，勢甚危急，命重績筮之，遇《同人》，曰：「天火之象，乾建而離明。
When Shi Jingtang defied the court at Taiyuan, the deposed emperor sent troops to besiege him; the situation was desperate; Jingtang ordered Zhongji to cast the hexagrams and obtained Fellowship; Zhongji said, "This is the image of Heaven and Fire—Qian established and Li bright.
拜重績太子右贊善大夫，遷司天監。
Zhongji was appointed right mentor of the heir apparent and promoted to director of the directorate of astronomy.
明年，張從賓反，命重績筮之，遇《隨》，曰：「南瞻析木，木不自續，虛而動之，動隨其覆。
The next year Zhang Congbin rebelled; Jingtang ordered Zhongji to divine and obtained Following; he said, "Looking south at the Divided Wood star, wood cannot sustain itself; though empty it stirs—when it moves it follows to its fall.
仁锜等言：「明年庚子正月朔，用重績歷考之，皆合無舛。」
Renqi and the others reported, "On the first day of the first month of the coming gengzi year, Zhongji's calendar matches perfectly."
重績又言：「漏刻之法，以中星考晝夜為一百刻，八刻六十分刻之二十為一時，時以四刻十分為正，此自古所用也。
Zhongji also said, "The clepsydra method uses culmination stars to divide day and night into one hundred ke; eight ke and sixty minute-ke make one double-hour; each double-hour takes four ke and ten minutes as the standard—this is the ancient usage.
重績卒年六十四。
Zhongji died at sixty-four.