Study Of The Three Kingdoms Of Goguryeo This Century "

Shih Chi of Three Kingdoms(《三国史记》) is an early historical book written in Chinese in history of Korea;its author is Jin Fushi(金富轼) who was a minister in Wangshi Korea(王氏高丽).This book,written in AD 1145,imitated the compiling style of historical books in ancient China,which is composed of biographic sketches of kings(本纪),zhi(志), chronology(年表) and collected biographies(列传).It's an very important reference material to study the histories of Gaogouli,Xinluo and Baiji. This dissertation selects the Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings(《高句丽本纪》) from Shih Chi of Three Kingdoms to conduct a research. Through comparing Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings with relative chapters of Chinese historical books,especially focusing on probing into their original relations,their differences in recording events and the reasons for these differences,identifying and correcting several specific errors,the dissertation aims at showing the academic value of Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings and Jin Fushi's historical ideas.This dissertation is composed of nine chapters,introduction, epilogue and postscript.The first chapter mainly researches the historical origin of the myth about Gaogouli state' beginning and the relevant problems.The author believes that Gaogouli people had created the myth of state-establishing in the Eastern Han Dynasty,but the myth was far from achieving perfection at that time,it got gradually improved and reached its final completion before the period of Haotaiwang(好太王). The legend recorded in Biography of Gaogouli in Weishu(《魏书·高句丽传》) was the final edition completed by Gaogouli People which was confirmed by the royal court of Gaogouli.The legend in Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings was not accepted by Gaogouli People.The second chapter,focusing on the records in the Wang Mang period(王莽时期) in Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings),researches the differences of records about Gaogouli between Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings and Chinese historical books.The author thinks that the records about Gaogouli during Wang Mang period in Chinese historical books are accurate,and the records in Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings have lots of problems.Considering that Shi Chi of Three Kingdoms was finished later and Yan You(严尤)'s memorial was rewritten,hence such records about Gaogouli is of low authenticity.The third chapter discusses the differences of records about Gaogouli during the Eastern Han Dynasty between Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings and Chinese historical books.After respectively examining the records about the war between the King of Dawushen(大武神王) and the prefecture chief of Liaodong(辽东郡守) in the 11^th year of the King of Dawushen(大武神王),the Lelang King Cui Li(乐浪王崔理) and the jurisdiction of Lelang prefecture(乐浪郡),the raiding Taiyuan(太原) by Gaogouli in the 2^nd year of the King of Muben(慕本王),the ten cities in Liaoxi(辽西) built in the 3^rd year of the King of Dazuda(大祖大王),the war between Gaogouli and the Eastern Han Dynasty,etc.,the author thinks that there are three reasons to explain why Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings has problems when it come to the relationship between Gaogouli and the Eastern Han Dynasty.Firstly,some materials from Haidong Guji(《海东古记》) can not be found in other historical books and Jin Fushi had to quote them without other relevant references;secondly,facing the contradictions between Haidong Guji and Chinese historical records,Jin Fushi,like some modern scholars,didn't make textual research deeply, but just adopted the records of Haidong Guji.Thirdly,when facing so many recording differences in various historical books,Jin Fushi made his own choice,even made some abridgements,which led to more differences and contradictions.The 4^th chapter makes a thorough inquiry into the records about the relationship between Gaogouli and Wu(吴), Wei(魏) in Biographic Sketches of Gaogouii Kings.The author thinks these contents have not been found in Chinese historical books,which seem to make up the deficiency of Chinese historical books.But those records have more or less inexplicable contradictions,so to use these materials,careful analysis is needed.The 5^th chapter expounds the records about the relationship between the regime of Gaogouli and the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasties(东晋,西晋),as well as the Southern and Northern Dynasties(南北朝) in Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings. The author thinks that these records are from Chinese historical books, and there appears some contradictions because of Jin Fushi's revision when he quoted them from Chinese historical books.Generally speaking, these records in Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings seem to have little new contents.On the contrary,Jin Fushi's revision led to many new problems.The 6^th chapter studies the records about the relationship between Gaogouli and Sui Dynasty(隋朝) in Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings.The author thinks these records were mainly excerpted from the relevant records in Zizhi Tongjian(《资治通鉴》),and the omitting and rewriting do influence people's understanding of the relation between Gaogouli and the Sui Dynasty.So its value is worth considering. The 7^th and 8^th chapters discuss the records about the relationship between Gaogouli and the Tang Dynasty(唐朝) as well as Gaogouli's downfall in Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings.The author thinks these records were basically excerpted from Zizhi Tongjian,and some complementary contents was from Old Tang Shu(《旧唐书》),New Tang Shu(《新唐书》). The 9^th chapter mainly probes into the records about the lineage of the royal family in Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings.The author thinks that the records about the 28 kings in Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings can not get support from other historical books,especially from the Chinese historical books.The general evaluation by this dissertation on Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings can be concluded as the following.After comparing with Chinese historical books,the author thinks that almost half of the contents of Biographic ketches of Gaogouli Kings were excepted from Chinese historical books,along with some abridgement and omitting, which not only made the records incomplete,but also created some new problems.Of course,there are some contents in Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings which can not be found in Chinese historical books. According to Jin Fushi's statement,this part of contents should come from Haidong Guji(《海东古记》),but its reliability needs to be noticed because of Jin Fushi's revision when excerpting them.What needs to be especially pointed out is that the dissertation does not want to completely deny the value of Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings as historical materials,but only to point out there are many problems existing in the book.If we take Biographic Sketches of Gaogouli Kings as criterion without careful textual research,then our research on the history of Gaogouli will be sure to diverge the historical truth.