고구려 발해의 상관성 연구와 과제

Abstract

This paper points out that the researchers for Balhae, and especially for Koguryo, have ignored the study of the continuity of the Koguryo residents. Furthermore, it urges them to study the continuity of history after the disappearance of Koguryo. The researchers are encouraged to study the construction of the Koguryo residents seriously and actively. And in terms of the history of Balhae, the continuity and interrelationship of the residents of the two dynasties are compared and examined to offer an direction of the research studies. In order to examine the continuity and interrelationship between the two dynasties, we must pay attention to a few points as follows. Above all, we must examine the regional continuity between Koguryo and Balhae. Mostly the farming Koguryo residents stayed at home. In this context, the study of the Koguryo dominion is essential to elucidate the interrelationship with Balhae. Next, the study of politics must be carried on previously before that of the Koguryo residents. If the Koguryo residents were the people of the nation, Koguryo, and later they changed into the people of Malgal suddenly in the era of Balhae, the reason of why they changed as such may result from the era of Koguryo. All of sudden, the background and process of why the people of Malgal became the largest portion of residents in the Southern Manchuria must be examined. We could imagine that during the long period of 700 years of the Koguryo dynasty, there had been a big change for the construction of residents. However, contrary to this, it cannot be denied that most other races were absorbed into the Koguryo residents. In spite that the custom of Balhae was similar to that of Koguryo in 『Jiutangshu(the Book of Old Tang)』, there are many cases of research studies for the cultural interrelationship of the two dynasties. In other words, many scholars misunderstood that the cultural characteristic phenomena between the ruling class and the ruled one might come from the physical evidence which appeared among different peoples. Earthen hole tomb(pit tomb) in earth and hand-made earthenware may be considered as the examples to show the characteristics of the Koguryo residents and the people of Malgal. On the contrary, it is reasonable to say that such cultural phenomena may be the evidence which reveals the characteristics of the Koguryo residents living at the border areas.