Ma Rong is erudite and pays off
——The second of the Three Masters of the Eastern Han Dynasty
Text/Ma Shan Qian
Ma Rong, zi ji chang, Fufeng County Maoling (Xingping) people clan, after the famous men and nobles. Uncle Fu Bo general Ma Yuan, aunt Empress Mingde Ma, father Ma Yan five senses general Lang Lang. With the influence of the family, the strict education of his fathers, and the efforts of his individuals, Ma Rong has performed extraordinaryly since he was a child. He was talented, talented, full of economy, and a well-known scholar, a famous educator, scribe, and writer of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and a master of Confucian doctrine in the Han Dynasty. Emperor An of Han was the school secretary Langzhong, Yilang, and Dongguandian School Cheats, etc. At the time of Emperor Huan of Han, he was the Taishou of Nan Commandery (江陵县, Hubei), and Yan Xi died in the ninth year at the age of 88.
When Ma Rong was a teenager, he had the ambition of "repaying the merits of the country and fixing the country in an annefic state", although he was born into a famous family, he was not arrogant and lavish, and he had repeatedly asked the imperial court for war, asking for meritorious service to serve the country, but his fate always ran counter to him. Because of his different political views, he was rejected many times, but he was slandered and degraded, and because of his words. In the second year of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, the government and the public unanimously agreed that the world would be peaceful, and that the armaments would be abolished. And Ma Rong was very worried about this, and immediately went to the "Ode to Guangcheng": The way of literature and martial arts, zhang relaxed and moderate, not forgetting danger, not forgetting chaos, national defense and combat readiness, and cannot be slackened. Therefore, empress dowager Deng was angered, and she ordered Ma Rong to be imprisoned and not promoted for 10 years. Unable to exert his ability to govern the country, Ma Rong was particularly upset, and from then on he volunteered to invest in Chinese culture and study the classics of traditional Chinese studies, so as to realize his ideal ambitions.
He read hard. The young Ma Rong was a positive and enterprising young man, under the guidance of his father, his studies became more and more advanced, but he was not satisfied, secretly bid farewell to his family, went out on foot to study, worshiped the Confucius of Kansai as a teacher, lived in seclusion in Zhongnan Mountain, chiseled stones to build a room, eliminated interference, read the wall, read Through Confucian masterpieces, and studied all over the hundreds of sons. In the mountains, he not only achieved success in his studies, became a famous university in the Han Dynasty, but also gained love, and married the daughter of the teacher, laying a good foundation for him to develop his future ambitions.
He wrote in the East. Dongguan is the National Library of the Han Dynasty, where the collection of books is vast, the talents are first-class, and the academic atmosphere is strong. In the fourth year of Yongchu, Ma Rong served as the secretary of the school secretary Langzhong and became the secretary of the Dongguan Classic School, where he read a wide range of books and studied Confucian classics, and his academic achievements were quite fruitful. He has annotated "Zhou Yi", "Shang Shu", "Book of Poetry", "Three Rites", "Analects", "Filial Piety", and "Lao Tzu", "Huainanzi", "Departure from Sorrow", etc., and written "Three Transmissions of Similarities and Differences" and 21 articles such as Fu, Ode, and Stele, and his "Flute Fu" is the most famous. Ma Rong's annotations on the classics, the original qingyuan, contributed to the waves, and made contributions in the history of the development of Confucianism, and his influence was extremely far-reaching.
He passed on the salary. Reality shatters dreams, and frustration achieves brilliance. After Ma Rong told the old man to return to his hometown, he set up an altar to give lectures in Fufeng Dai Tent Town, set up an account to teach apprentices, and concentrated on teaching Confucian culture. He "always sat in the high hall, cast a yarn tent, and gave birth to disciples before, and then led to female music." In front of the tent, he was passionate, talking loudly, and behind the tent, the silk bamboo was pleasant to the ear, and the red sleeves were fluttering, so as to test the effectiveness of his lectures and the degree to which the disciples listened to the lectures. A generation of grandmaster Lu Zhi was a disciple of Ma Rong, and Cao Cao called him "a model of soldiers and a model of the country". The idiom "Passing on the salary of the tent" was passed down by Ma Rong, and many students such as Lu Zhi, Zheng Xuan, Yan Ji, Ma Rilei and so on, all achieved great things because of Ma Rong.
Ma Rong was erudite and refined, and the History of Huaxia Qing left a name, and posterity commented on him like this: "Governing the country and the people in the Golden Gate is praised, and the past is opened in the scriptures and the cultivation of the scriptures." ”
September 16, 2021 in Xianyang
About the Author
Ma Shanqian, born in 1947, Shaanxi Fufeng people, 20 years of military life, 20 years of local work. Cadre of Xianyang Municipal Bureau of Justice, deputy secretary-general of Shaanxi Essay Association, studying at Sanjin University, specializing in essay commentary, has published more than 1 million texts, and published two anthologies, "Out of the Strange Circle of History" and "Stand Up as a Backbone".