During the Warring States period, Zhao Hao defeated the invading army of the Qin state, and the imperial court named him Ma Fujun. Zhao Hao's descendants first took Mafu as their surname, and later changed it to a single surname - Ma. This Ma surname has nothing to do with the "Sima " who takes the official surname as the surname.
There are four routes for Ma's tide inflow: (1) Southwest Fujian. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, Ma's descendants spread in western Fujian and entered Tai Po and Feng Shun. During the Ming Dynasty, the two surnames of Ma and Liao were created in jieyang Lantiandu, so the village name was Ma Liao Tang, which now belongs to Yuhu Town, Jiedong County, and the village is bordered by Puzhai Town, Fengshun County to the west. At present, the distribution points of Ma in Jieyang (including Puning) are Rongcheng, Michangjia, Nanyuan Village, Bowl Village, Baijiling, Shipan Village and Guolong Village. The population of Mars is about 3,300 people. (2) Coming from the east of Fujian. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the 16th ancestor of Ma Fa moved from Putian in Fujian to Chaozhou Capital. The distribution points and number of people in the present-day Chao'an Ma clan are: about 1,000 people in Zhongjin (a village built in the late Tang and early Song dynasties) in Yixi Town, about 400 people in Maolong Village in Anbu Town, about 100 people in Shengju Village in Shaxi Town, and about 500 people in Magang Village in Raoping Sanrao Town. Together with the martyred Ma Fa family of 9. The population of Chao and Rao Ma is about 2,000 people. (3) Putian into Chaoyang. Ma Rong (1108-1175), a native of Putian, Fujian, was an official envoy to Guangnan East Road during the Song Shaoxing period. In the fifth year of Shaoxing (1135), he resigned his official position and entered Chaoyang, Buju Oyster Ping (present-day Heping), and his descendants moved to create villages in chaoyang. (4) Southwest Jiangxi (into Chaoyang another Ma lineage). In the first year (1265) of Emperor Xianchun of Song Dynasty,1265, he served as a scholar of Wenhuadian University (right chancellor) and privy councillor Ma Tingluan (1222-1289), and his third son Ma Wenfeng moved to Tangkeng (now Part of Fengshun County) in Jieyang County at the end of the Song Dynasty, and his grandson Ma Chang'an and others founded a village in Chaoyang. The above-mentioned second line into chaoyang is the Ma Rong and Ma Tingluan factions. The distribution points of Ma's in Chaoyang are: Xinggui, Wenguang, Pingdong, Xishuang, Pinghedong, Taoyuan, Ximen, Shuangwang and Kuangyuan of present-day Wenguang Subdistrict. Longjing, Wuxiang, Xinhua, Wuxian, Fengdong, Houshuangyuan and Fengnan in Chengnan Subdistrict. Pingxi, Pingnan, Pingbei, Dongjiagong, Cotton Fields, and Butterflies in Mianbei Subdistrict. Three Forts in Gimpo Street. Tangwei, Lianbei, Xinhe, Zhongzhai, Wuhe and Baishi in Heping Town. Tian zhong in Narita Town, Xianma in Guiyu Town, Dutou, Guiyu, Nan'an, Xialong. Liuxian, Ding'an and Beigou in Chendian Town. Haimen Town's weak city, chengnan, east gate, Xindi, Lianfeng and other places. The old five townships of Xiancheng Town. The mansion of The Gorge Hill Town. Commander of Sima Pu Town. Two Ings in the town of Two Ying. There are 59 distribution points, and the population of Chaoyang Mashi is 79,803 people.
Chaoshan Mashi is a magnificent cultural landscape with profound cultural accumulation. Ma LiaoTang Village, located in Yuhu Town, which is adjacent to Jieyang County and Fengshun County, is a mixed settlement of the Fulao ethnic group and the Hakka people in Chaozhou, where the flowers of ethnic culture bloom. At the end of the Song Dynasty, The Destroyer Zhai sent Ma Fa to Chaozhou to defeat the Yuan soldiers repeatedly, and then due to the fall of the widowed army, the whole family was in Jinshan. In present-day Chaozhou City, Dongping Road Sanjia Lane, Jieyang County Yahou Mountain Horse Hair Crown Tomb are all jingxian places. Ma Rong chose the place of peace, which is known as the area of fertility, and strangled the land and water, so at the end of the Song Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang was stationed in the division, and Ma Sidao advised that the xie of peace was returning to the Ming Dynasty, adding a colorful pen to the Ma clan.
The Chaoshan Ma clan is all over the world, such as Chaoyang has more than 70,000 people with the surname of Ma, but there are more than 200,000 people overseas; in the past, there were 7 batches such as Ma Jinsheng and 3 pawnshops such as Juchang in Narita Yixiang in the past years.
Author: Guo Weizhong
Source: HKSAR Evening News (2003.02.28)