영주지역 생원‧ 진사 입격자와 사회적 지위

Abstract

Those candidates who have passed the Classics and Literary Licentiate Examination were distributed 349 districts, all over the country, Yeongcheon ranked 20th, Sunheung 37th and Punggi 73rd, respectively. Among 508 passers, literary licentiates(生員) were 338(66.5%), and classics licentiates(進士) were 170(33.5%). a literary licentiate is about twice as many. Candiates who passed both exams were 13(2.6%) and six of them passed the civil service examination. In the 19th century, 183(36.3%) literary licentiates and classics licentiates passed to over one-third, in the 18th century, 136(26.8%) and in the 17th century, 126(24.8%) did respectively. Consequently, the number of passers increased in a process of the latter part of period. Their average age at the time was 34.6 years. People in their 30s made up the largest number, 180(38.2%) and people in between their 20s and 40s were 86.8% of the total. Also, people in their 10s were 15(3.2%), while people over 60 years old were 12(2.5%). Background of literary licentiates and classics licentiates who tell their social staus was overwhelmingly studying abroad and the number of them was 483(98.0%). The rest of them were students, Dongmong, Hundo, and Heo. Their father’s official rank and government positions were that students were 137(27.4%), studying abroad 122(24.4%) and officials 112(22.4%), literary licentiates and classics licentiates 76(15.2%), official rankers 53(10.6%) respectively. Their degree of official rank was not all high level officials(堂上官) except one person. Among them, 56(11.1%) passed the civil service examination later and their average age at the time when they had passed in the Classics and Literary Licentiate Examination(司馬試) had been 30.7 years old. After that, when their average age were 40.4 years old, they passed the civil service examination. All of these were released from 96 surnames, such as 43 from Changwon Hwang , 42 from Yeanan Kim, 38 from Andong Kwon, and 37 from Poongsan Kim, four surnames accounting for about one-third. The number of surnames which released only one person 41(44.0%).