Mada (麻答) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Mada as a general, military officer, and named individual. This record brings together 10 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Mada	麻答	Mada
Personal name	Mada	麻答	Mádá
Personal name	Mada	麻答
Personal name	Mada	麻荅	Mádá

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:035:s0084, liaoshi:076:s0149
Value: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0036

Roles

General
Military Officer
Named Individual

Life and dates

Attested activity

Western Interval: Start: AD 947 · End: AD 948 · Source Date: Text: Chronology stated or entailed by s0036, s0063
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:073:s0036, xinwudaishi:073:s0063
Source Date: Text: 入汴 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0149
Source Date: Text: 麻答軍 · Western Interval: Start: AD 916 · End: AD 1125
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:035:s0084

Family

Kin of Yaogu (堯骨)
Kinship Term: younger cousin / 從弟 · Subject Role: younger-cousin · Object Role: elder-cousin · Line: paternal

Career and standing

Office: military commissioner of Xing Prefecture
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0061
Action: committed systematic torture and killings against Chinese captives
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0062

Places and affiliations

Polities: liao, Khitan
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0036
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:035:s0084
Organization: Mada's army / 麻答軍 · Relation: commander-of
Explicit · liaoshi:035:s0084

Events and relationships

Event: guarded Zhen Prefecture for Wuyu · Kind: historical-event · Action: guarded Zhen Prefecture for Wuyu
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0036, xinwudaishi:073:s0061

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: especially cruel · Provenance: Mode: source-text
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0062

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 35Volume 35 Treatises 5: Military 2 · 1 passage

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麻答軍。 Mada's army.

History of Liao, Chapter 76Volume 76 Biographies 6: Yelu Jieli, Yelu Balide, Yelu Shuogu, Yelu Lubugu, Zhao Yanshou, Gao Mohan, Zhao Siwen, Yelu Oulisi, Zhang Li · 3 passages

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入汴，諸將蕭翰、耶律郎五、麻答輩肆殺掠，礪奏曰：「今大遼始得中國，宜以中國人治之，不可專用國人及左右近習。 After entering Bian, generals such as Xiao Han, Yelu Langwu, and Mada killed and plundered at will; Li memorialized, "Great Liao has only just won China; it should be governed by Chinese, not entrusted solely to Khitan and personal favorites.

時礪在恒州，蕭翰與麻答以兵圍其第。 Li was then at Hengzhou; Xiao Han and Mada surrounded his house with soldiers.

麻答以礪大臣，不可專殺，乃救止之。 Mada argued that Li was a senior minister and could not be killed on private authority, and held Han back.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 73Volume 73: Appendix on the Four Barbarians 2: Khitan 2 · 6 passages

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兀欲留其將麻荅守鎮州，晉諸將相隨德光在鎮州者皆留之而去。 Wuyu left his general Mada to guard Zhen Prefecture and detained the Jin officials who had accompanied Deguang there before setting out.

使者至鎮州，鎮州軍亂，大將白再榮等逐出麻荅。 The envoys arrived to find Zhen Prefecture in revolt; Bai Zairong and other commanders expelled Mada.

據定州，已而悉其衆以北。 Mada occupied Ding Prefecture, then led his entire force north.

麻荅者，德光之從弟也。 Mada was Deguang's younger cousin.

麻荅尤酷虐，多略中國人，剝面，抉目，拔髮，斷腕而殺之，出入常以鉗鑿挑割之具自隨，寢處前後掛人肝、脛、手、足，言笑自若，鎮、定之人不勝其毒。 Mada was savagely cruel: he seized Chinese captives, flayed faces, gouged eyes, tore out hair, severed wrists, and killed; he carried pincers and chisels everywhere, hung livers, shins, hands, and feet around his bed, and chatted calmly while the people of Zhen and Ding were tortured past endurance.

麻荅已去，馮道等乃南歸。 Once Mada had withdrawn, Feng Dao and his party went south again.