고구려의 역사적 정체성

• 영문명: The Historical Identity of the Goguryeo Dynasty
• 발행기관: 국제고려학회 서울지회
• 저자명: 최광식(Choe, Kwang-Shik)
• 간행물 정보: 『국제고려학회 서울지회 논문집』제6호, 75~86쪽, 전체 12쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.12.31

영문 초록

Since 2002, the Chinese government has been launching and promoting a series of government-funded projects(the so-called Dongbuk-Gongjeong Project) based upon their own interest and determination to promote a historical perspective of their own, which is to view the history of the Goguryeo dynasty as part of the Chinese local history and also the dynasty itself as one of the local authorities established by one of the minor ethnic groups that had existed throughout the Chinese territory. This project is allegedly based upon the official Chinese position viewing themselves as a ‘homogeneous, multi-ethnic conglomeration’ of ethnic groups, but such identification of themselves are believed to have been engineered for political reasons instead of with academic justifications. Such intentions become more apparent if one considered when this project was first launched in the first place. The project was launched almost immediately after North Korea submitted the Goguryeo dynasty’s ancient burial mounds group to UNESCO as a nominee for the World Cultural Heritage designation in 2001. The launch of the Dongbuk-Gongjeong project was more of a strategic response to North Korea’s submission. Then on what logical bases could we claim the history of the Goguryeo dynasty as part of the Korean history? There is a record regarding the Ohwan, Seonbi and Dongih tribes inside the Ohwan?Seonbi?Dongih entry of the Wiseo section of the text which documented the history of the Chinese three dynasties(Wi/魏Chok/蜀Oh/吳). And in the Dongih entry, there are records regarding the historical events happened in Buyeo, Goguryeo, Dong-Okjeo, Yae, Muhan, Jinbyeon, and the Japanese Wae. By the fashion of sections composition, we can say that Jin Su, the person who was in charge of compiling and publishing the text, had demonstrated in his compilation of the text a perspective viewing the history of Ohwan and Seonbi and Dongih tribes as a history(foreign history) separated from the history of the three Wi, Chok, Oh dynasties. We should aIso note that there are references to memoriaI services meant for the heaven and the sky, in the portions dealing with the history of Buyeo, Goguryeo, Yae and Muhan, inside the Wiseo section Dongi entry of the text. According to those references, we can see that the services were arranged in October, and was a dynasty-wide event, and was referred to as the ‘Dongmaeng’ ceremony. Judging from the title, it seems to have been related to the founder of the Goguryeo dynasty, whose name was ‘Dong-myeong’, We could say that the Dongmaeng-jae ceremony was a memoriaI service meant for the heaven, and aIso for Dongmyeong, the Founder God of the dynasty, who was aIso believed to have been son of the heaven’s God. MemoriaI service for the heaven of this sort were aIso held in Buyeo and Yae and the other Sam-han societies as well. Considering the fact that only the Emperor was aIlowed to arrange a memorial service for the heaven, we can see that the Chinese had perceived the regions that held this kind of memorial services for heaven not as vassaI states expected to directly succumb to China, but as independent political entities outside the Chinese territory. So we can confirm that Goguryeo, Buyeo, Dongyae and Mahan, which all arranged memorial services for heaven to be held in their respective reaIms, had all existed as independent entities with a perspective viewing the universe in a different way than the one shared by the Chinese, even by the historical texts compiled and authored in the past by the Chinese themselves. In the meantime, if we examine the Korean historical records, we can find a description saying the son of the heaven lord(‘天帝之子’) inscribed upon the Gwanggaeto-wangreung-bi. And there is also a description saying the son of the sun and moon(‘日月之子’) inscribed upon the Moduru Tomb tablet.

목차

1. 머리말

2. 중국 기록상의 고구려

3. 한국 기록상의 고구려

4. 중국교과서상의 고구려

5. 맺음말

키워드

동북공정 고구려 Dongbuk-Gongjeong Project Goguryeo Yeongrak Yeonga 永樂 延嘉