Ma Dai was Ma Chao's cousin, and although he was far less famous than Ma Chao, he was also a well-known general at the end of the Shu Han Dynasty. One of the things That Ma Dai did was to kill Wei Yan, but apart from this, there didn't seem to be anything powerful.
After the failure of Ma Dai's crusade against Cao Wei, there was no trace of Ma Dai in history, in fact, the history books did not even record his birth and death years, and it is not known where this silent and low-key general went, and his own tomb was not discovered until the Qing Dynasty.
Regarding Ma Dai's family, there is a record of such a thing in Shu Shipu: Ma Chao was from Di Dai, Zi Bo Zhan, and the son of Teng Brother Yi. His father's wing entered Xu as a lieutenant in the Northern Army, and later Liangzhou, Liangzhou was in turmoil, and dozens of relatives were sent westward. Dai Di resisted, followed the wings westward, or to the West Sea.
It is roughly said that after Cao Cao slaughtered the Ma clan because of the Liangzhou Rebellion, Ma Dai and a dozen clans fled west to the Caspian Sea. It has not been recorded since. History is so strange, obviously some of them are the life stories of their own people, but they can't see them in their own history books, but they can find clues from foreign books.
At the junction of Europe and Asia, Armenia was also an independent country in the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, the next thing to talk about is not how the armenian state is, but that some scholars have found records of Ma Kang in its history book "History of Armenia", which may reveal the experience of Ma Kang (Ma Dai's brother) and his relatives after they left the west.
In the book, a family, the Mamikonyan, is mentioned, which began to appear in front of the Persians around the fourth century AD, when the persian region was ruled by the Sassanid dynasty. Soon after the establishment of the Sassanid Dynasty, it was imposed in Armenia and forced the local people to believe in it. However, the grievances and resentments in the hearts of the Armenians grew larger and larger, and finally an uprising broke out!
In 451 AD, under the leadership of a man named Vardan Mamikonyan, after many fruitless uprisings, the two sides fought a final decisive battle in Iran, and on the battlefield, before the soldiers charged, Vardan said a sentence that was very similar to the Chinese language: "Die ignorantly, decay with grass and trees; born of enlightenment, for eternal life!" Encouraged by these words, the Armenians fought bravely to kill the enemy, and even Vardan was killed in this battle!
The war was fierce, and although the uprising was eventually suppressed by Persia, the rulers also learned to compromise and allowed the Armenians to continue to believe in Christianity. In 482 AD, under the leadership of Va'an, Vardan's nephew, the War of Independence of Armenia broke out, and the result of the war forced Persia to sign a treaty allowing Armenia to self-govern.
Who was the ancestor of the Mamikonyan family who led the Armenians to independence? It's Ma Kang. This is also accurately recorded in the history of Armenia, which states that around the third century AD, Ma Kang fled here because he offended an emperor of China. The Persian emperor at that time liked Ma Kang very much and left him behind. However, when the Chinese emperor found out, he asked him to surrender his horse to resist, otherwise he would attack Persia.
The Persian emperor cherished Ma Kang's talents, did not want to hand over people, and did not want to offend China, so he sent Ma Kang to Armenia. Later, Ma Kang made many military achievements in Armenia and was deeply welcomed by the leaders of the time, so he gave him the surname Mamikonyan, and his family also became a prominent nobleman in Armenia, which is still widespread in West Asia
When Chinese scholars analyze this period of historical documents, they feel that Ma Kang's family has Qianghu blood and is very good with foreign tribes on the border, and when the Ma family was a general in China, whether it was individual or collective combat, they were good at using guns, which was a bit of a Western style.
Moreover, before Ma Chao died, he said to Liu Bei: More than two hundred mouths of the Emperor Of the Emperor Of the Gate of The Gate were all cursed by Meng De, but from his brother Dai, as the successor of The Blood Eater of Emperor Weizong, he deeply trusted His Majesty, and there was no more word.
The gist is that more than two hundred people in the Ma family were killed by Cao Cao, and only his younger brother Ma Dai survived, hoping that Liu Bei could take more care of him.
Cao Cao killed ma chao in 212-213 AD, and in 220 AD Cao Pi usurped Han, established the state of Wei, and posthumously crowned Cao Cao as emperor. In this way, the time is right.