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Ma Rong

Eastern Han Master Classicist, Commentator of the Confucian Canon, and Educator

Also known as Ma Jizhang · Jizhang · Donghan Jingxue Zongshi · Shezhang Shoutu Mingshi

Paramount Eastern Han scholar who commented comprehensively on the Confucian classics and educated over a thousand disciples, including Zheng Xuan and Lu Zhi.

Life and times

  1. 79BornHan
  2. 92Ban Zhao Continues HistoryBan Zhao completed the Book of Han at Dongguan Library, taught master scholars, and advised Empress Deng Sui.
    1. Ban Zhao Lectures Scholars at Dongguan105Teaching master scholars such as Ma Rong behind silk screens at the Dongguan Library to transmit classical scholarship.
  3. 166Died

Connections

  1. Shared events1
    1. Emperor He of Han79 CE–106 CE
  2. Teachers and students2
    1. Ban ZhaoTeacher · c. 45 CE–c. 117 CE
    2. Zheng XuanStudent · 127 - 200

Records

Teaching behind a crimson curtain

Eastern Han

The Book of the Later Han says Ma Rong was gifted and widely learned, the all-round scholar of his age, and that the students he taught and raised often numbered a thousand. He would sit in a high hall behind a crimson gauze curtain, teaching students in front with women musicians seated behind; Lu Zhi of Zhuo and Zheng Xuan of Beihai were both his pupils.

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