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Jang Do-bin's Cognition of Goguryeo period

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  • 2009, (30), pp.287-327
  • Publisher : Institute for Historical Studies at Chung-Ang University
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Park, In-Ho 1

1금오공과대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This article aimed to examine Jang Do-bin's Cognition of Goguryeo period. Jang Do-bin had followed the periodization which divided into Sanggo, Joonggo, Geungo, Geunsei and Choegeun and he had cognized Goguryeo period as Joonggo. In the early stage of the historiography of the Korean history, he described with focus on Kings and persons and he didn't escape category of the traditional historiography of dynasty-centered which was developed into the Ring stage, the Growth stage, Climax stage and Down fall stage of Goguryeo. The sentence has a limit of the historiography on traditional ages by indignation and exaggerated expression. Jang Do-bin dealed with Goguryeo period giving a full explanation relatively among total periods. Choi Nam-Sun who was a culturist among another culturists took small pages of Goguryeo period and its contents were shown as a meager in substance. In the case of Hwang Ui-don's Cognition of Goguryeo period, he took to concentrate upon modern times and his description of Goguryeo were left relatively poor pages. Jang Do-bin understood the growth and expansion of Goguryeo owing to peoples' characters of Goguryeo, peoples' solidarity, pursuing the policy of militarism, diligent and simple lifestyle, educational spirit of pursing to be both a good warrior and a good scholar and the way of strict ruling. On the other hand, he cognized that the downfall of Goguryeo was brought by aggression of some external powers, peoples' change into extravagance in living and despotism by militarism and respect of warrior only. After liberation from Japanese Imperialism in 1945, he showed an changing attitude that emphasized internal forces than external forces relating to downfall of Goguryeo. Jang Do-bin regarded the history of Goguryeo period as the most important period in the Korean history and then he understood the developing of Sanggo history as Goguryeo -centered in DongBuk Asia international order of the 4th-7th century. He described that Great persons of King Kwanggaeto, Euljimundeok and Gaesomun had acted to defence Goguryeo against external several invations and they had served to preserve a nation. Sin Chae-ho who had cognition of Goguryeo-centered, understood Korean history as a struggle history against invasion of external powers. But Jang Do-bin emphasized that the overcoming abilities than the struggle attitudes of Goguryeo against external invasion. For example, he described to emphasis King Pyeongwon' and King Yeongyang' overcoming abilities against external invasion. Furthermore, he suggested that the growth and expansion of Goguryeo dynasty owed to increase of peoples, expansion of territory, maintenance of military power and system and some excellent cultural contents and system. Jang Do-bin thought in sake of the preeminence of the culture with the cause why Goguryeo was able to build the most powerful nation during the early days, and he thought that culture development and national development made ends meet together. In the viewpoint of culturism, Jang Do-bin described that the culture of Goguryeo had some excellent substance than the culture of Silla dynasty. and Silla dynasty imported the essence of the culture of Goguryeo dynasty. The emphasis for such Goguryeo culture came to show the drawing and the photograph of the real spot survey writing the history textbook titled Pyeongyangji. As a result, He develop the historiography in Korean history from documents-centered description to utilizing the drawing and the photograph.

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