天命思想을 통해 본 宋 太祖 趙匡胤의 皇帝卽位 記錄

Abstract

Chao K'uang-yin became emperor in a peaceful way and was recognized as the figure who completed the Thought of Heaven's Decree by drawing a conclusion that the emergence of Sung was a must and Heaven's decree with the traditional principle of dynasty circulation. It is no surprise that historical records contain efforts to grant him legitimacy and lawfulness, which should be accepted as a natural phenomenon. The Thought of Heaven's Decree is reflected in the records about Chao K'uang-yin in many different ways. The findings so far can be sorted out as follows:Chao K'uang-yin was made emperor passively by the greed of a group of generals regardless of his own will; he still paid close attention and made efforts to make sure the political change would progress peacefully for his loyalty for Late Chou Dynasty and his love of people; despite his efforts, unexpected events took place such as the murder of Han t'ung. Chao K'uang-yin thoroughly investigated those events to find out who to blame and demonstrated his strong will; as a result the common people praised and accepted him as their emperor; with those changes, Chao K'uang-yin continued to hang on to his personal worries; he finally ascended to the throne thanks to the assistance from his close warriors and prime ministers of Late Chou; in the enthronement process, some little problem happened. Placing great value on loyalty, Chao K'uang-yin applied strict criteria to deal with the problem; and after the enthronement, he named his dynasty Sung, chose Fire Virtue, and worshiped Red Color, thus completing the Thought of Heaven's Decree. One, however, should be aware that facts and distortions are tangled up with one another in a complex way around the Thought of Heaven's Decree in those historical records. Thus there is a need to scientifically analyze such records, which cannot be trusted blindly nor denied entirely, based on the right methodology for history study. That way historical truth hidden in historical materials will surface to some degree. Employing such an attitude, this study reviewed several historical records about the enthronement of Chao K'uang-yin in connection to the Thought of Heaven's Decree. The investigator wonders how many of the problems with the raw materials were overcome with the study and expects comments from other interested researchers.