Ma Yuan (Han dynasty)
Eastern Han general who suppressed the Trung sisters' rebellion.
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Ma Yuan (14 BC – 49 AD) was a Chinese military general and politician of the Eastern Han dynasty.[1] The Trung sisters' rebellion was suppressed with significant involvement from Ma Yuan.[1]
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Life and work
They arrived in the Red River Delta in early 43 AD.[2] The rebellion was brought under control by April or May.[2] Ma Yuan was assigned to lead the military effort against the Trung sisters' uprising.[2] In southern China, Ma Yuan and his officers started assembling a Han military force.[2]
The force consisted of approximately 10,000 soldiers.[2] A coastal supply fleet was sent out by Ma Yuan from Guangdong.[2] The Han army, under his command, traversed challenging landscapes to reach the Red River Delta.[2]
What the cited sources add
Historian Li Tana expressed the "strong possibility that the Chinese adopted the Ma Yuan cult from the Vietnamese."[3]
References
- Wikipedia, "Ma Yuan (Han dynasty)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: The chronology of Ma Yuan's biography in Houhanshu implied that he died in or just after the 3rd month of the 25th year of the Jianwu era of Emperor Guangwu's r; Bielestein, "The Cambridge History of China, Volume 1: The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 B.C.–A.D. 220", Cambridge University Press, 1987, p. 271; "Ma Yuan", Mountain Songs (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ma Yuan (Han dynasty)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bielestein, "The Cambridge History of China, Volume 1: The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 B.C.–A.D. 220", Cambridge University Press, 1987, p. 271; Bielestein, "The Cambridge History of China, Volume 1: The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 B.C.–A.D. 220", Cambridge University Press, 1987, p. 271; Bielestein, "The Cambridge History of China, Volume 1: The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 B.C.–A.D. 220", Cambridge University Press, 1987, p. 271; Yü, "The Cambridge History of China, Volume 1: The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 B.C.–A.D. 220", Cambridge en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ma Yuan (Han dynasty)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Mã Viện's Memorials in Vietnam", BBC Vietnamese, 29 June 2005; Li, "Opusculum de sectis apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses (A Small Treatise on the Sects among the Chinese and Tonkinese): A Study of Religion in China and North Vietnam in the Eighteenth Century by Adriano Di St. Thecla, Ol; di St. Thecla, "Opusculum de Sectis apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses: A Small Treatise on the Sects among the Chinese and Tonkinese", Cornell University Press, 2002, p. 42–47; "Mã Viện's Memorials in Vietnam", BBC Vietnamese, 29 June 2005; di St. Thecla, en.wikipedia.org
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