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The Rituals of the Royal Family and the socio-political significance of the posthumous honor in the Late Period of Silla

  • The Review of Korean History
  • 2012, (108), pp.39-69
  • Publisher : The Historical Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Park Namsoo 1

1국사편찬위원회

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ABSTRACT

was the effective progenitor of the late period of Silla. And so it can be examined all sorts of rituals for ancestors performed by the King Gyeongmun lineage. By studying them, I can reconstructed all kinds of ritual process : the creation of royal tombs by the will of King Wonseong,organizing Buddhist ceremony for reciting Sutra for the reconstruction of Goksa by the order of King Gyeongmun, informing of the tomb of King Wonseong and Royal Ancestral Shirne of the installation of King Gyeongmun and so forth. In addition, King Gyeongmun endeavoured to solve the problems about the authenticity of his succession to the throne and the issue on keeping the spirit tablet in shrine accompanied by the relocation of King Wonseong’s Ancestral tablet, raised in the early of his reign by diverting to the reconstruction of Goksa; and granting the posthumous title to Uigong the Great and enshrining his spirit tablet into the shrine. The mutual coalition of two 1ineages of Gyunjeong and Hunjeong, since excluding the 1ineage of Ingyeom from the period of the reign of King Sinmu, had continued until the 1ineage of King Wonseong claimed to advocate the solidarity among them in the process of succession to the throne of King Geongmun and after his succession. However, with the installation of Uijong, Tang as a momentum, King Gyeongmun had concentrated his power on the 1ineage of Hunjeong by enshrining his late father Gyemyeong into the royal shrine and investing his son, Jeong, as a crown prince. In the process, he crashed the rebellions by Yun Heung and Kim Ye severely, which he could carry out the political reforms such as encouraging study on their own culture and academy not Chinese ones and expanding secretarial organization for the King. Since then, the movement of the sovereign power went on in the 1ineage of King Gyeongmun, a sub-1ineage of Hunjeong centering Ui Hong exclusively. This was to block the succession to the throne by other lineages in the royal family, which resulted in the discontinuity of Royal lineage of Kim as the line of King Gyeongmun cut off.

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