읍참마목. 泣斬馬謖.

큰 목적을 위하여 자기가 아끼는 사람을 버림을 이르는 말. 

≪삼국지≫의 <마속전(馬謖傳)>에 나오는 말로, 중국 촉나라 제갈량이 군령을 어기어 가정(街亭) 싸움에서 패한 마속을 눈물을 머금고 참형에 처하였다는 데서 유래한다. (출처: 표준국어대사전)

 

馬謖 마속

중국(中國) 삼국(三國) 시대(時代) 촉한(蜀漢)의 장수(將帥). 자는 유상(幼常). 재주가 뛰어나고, 병략(兵略)에 밝아 제갈량(諸葛亮)의 중명(重命)을 받고 일군(一軍)의 통수(統帥)가 되었음. 촉한의 요지(要地) 가정(街亭)의 싸움에서 위(魏)나라 장수(將帥) 장합(張郃)에게 크게 패하여, 중원(中原) 공략(攻略)의 웅대(雄大)한 계획(計劃)도 허사로 돌아가매, 제갈량(諸葛亮)은 그를 애석(哀惜)히 여겼으나(눈물을 흘리며) 목을 베었음. (위키)

 

Ma Su (190–228), courtesy name Youchang, was a military general and strategist of the state of Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms period of China. Ma Su had conspicuous talent in military theories and was admired by the Shu chancellor Zhuge Liang. However, a tactical blunder by Ma Su at the Battle of Jieting resulted in Shu being dealt a huge defeat by Zhang He, a general of the rival state of Wei. He was a younger brother of Ma Liang.

Much dramatisation shrouds the death of Ma Su. According to his biography in the Records of the Three Kingdoms along with Pei Songzhi Annotations to Records of the Three Kingdoms and Xi Zuochi's comment, Ma Su was executed on Zhuge Liang's order. Most of the cultural's depictions follow this version such as the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms as well as the Peking opera Loss of Jieting However, in the biography of Ma Su's close friend Xiang Lang, Ma Su was said to actually attempt to escape after his defeat at Jieting, but was captured, and he may have eventually died of illness in prison before the ordered execution could be carried out. (WIKI)

 

 

마속 馬謖 Ma Su (출처: WKI)