[부여]Buyeo National Museum

Buyeo National Museum http://buyeo.museum.go.kr/
The best place where visitors can feel flavor of Baekje



Buyeo was the last captial city of Baekje Kingdom, so the prosperity of the culture remains in there.

Particulary, Buyeo National Museum is commonly listed as one of Korean main museums, because of its many treasures.




A mural in NeungSan-Ri Tomb No.1

 능산리고분군(扶餘陵山里古墳群)

This painting of White Tiger(白虎) was found in a tomb on a mountain in NeungSan-Ri, Buyeo.

There are seven tombs in the mountain, they are believed as the Baekje royal burial ground.

The Village of Bronze Age in SongGuk-Ri, Buyeo (Replica) 

Buyeo is nestled against the liver Geum, so early villages could develop.

SongGuk-Ri Village(扶餘 松菊里 先史聚落址) is presumed to have been constructed through B.C.7~6.

This famous village of Korean Broze Age influenced Japanese Yayoi Culture.

A music instrument which made of bronze

Left: LiaoNing(the northerneast of China) style bronze dagger
Right: Korean Style bronze dagger 

Molds



SongGuk-Ri Style Earthware



These earthware were excavated from the ritual remain in Nonchi, Buyeo (扶餘 論峙祭祀遺蹟)

The Epitaph of Buyeo Yung(扶餘隆)

Buyeo Yung was the last crown prince of Baekje Kingdom.

After Baekje was collapsed by Tang and Silla, he was taken to Tang(唐), and died in there.

In mountain Beimang(北芒山) of Henan, China, the epitaph of Buyeo Yung still  remains.

The epitaph of Buyeo Yung in Buyeo National Museum is a replica.

百濟昌王銘石造舍利龕(National Treasure No.288)

"百濟昌王十三秊太歲在 丁亥妹兄公主供養舍利" are carved on the stone case.

This stone memorial stone was found in the south of mountain Buso, Buyeo.

It was constructed by SaTaekJiJeok(砂宅智積) who was a powerful man in politically.

부여 왕흥사터 사리그릇

When King YuiDeok[?~598] constructed a wooden pagoda for his two dead princes,

these little containers were also put into the pagoda.

諸法從緣起

如來說是因

彼法因緣盡

是大沙門說

Everything is formed by its cause

Buddha told the principle

Everything dissipates along with the principle

This is the instruction which the great teacher gave.

The structure of Buddhist temple in Korea (Goguryo, Silla, Baekje, Unified-Silla)



[공주] 송산리고분군, 무령왕릉

The Fieldtrip to Gongju(2)

The next destination is the Tombs in Songsan-ri(宋山里古墳群).

Songsan-ri where 7 tombs of Baekje are located in is apart from Gong-sanseong(公山城) in the west.

The sights became famous for excavation of the Tomb of King Mooryeong(武寧王陵) in 1971.

The Tombs in Songsan-ri(宋山里古墳群)

A look inside the maquette of Tomb No.6 (宋山里6號墳)

Among the tombs, worth noting is Tomb No.6, because of its mural paitings.

Its mural features Four Deities- Cheongryong(靑龍), Baekho(白虎), Hyeonmoo(玄武), Jujak(朱雀)

These murals was painted simply after some part of walls was daupted with mud,

while murals of Tomb No.1 of Neungsan-ri(陵山里1號墳; it is also a tomb of Baekje) was painted directly

on properly faced stones.

Tomb No.6 of Songsan-ri and Tomb No.1 of Neungsan-ri are the only Baekje tomb has murals.

The murals features Four Deities of Tomb No.6

The hall for a oil lamp (maquette)

Then-picture when Tomb of Muryeong(武寧王陵) was discovered

Tomb No.7 of Songsan-ri became known as the tomb of King Muryeong(461~523) for his name on a stone board.(epitaph)


아래는 송산리 고분군 모형관에 있는 매지권(買地卷)과 묘지명(墓誌銘)인데

다음에 이어지는 공주박물관의 번역과 조금 다른 부분이 있어서

양측을 다 싣도록 한다.

매지권

간지도

왕의 묘지(墓誌)

왕비의 묘지(墓誌)

National Gongju Museum

Gongju National Museum is close to tombs of Songsan-ri. (website : gongju.museum.go.kr)

The museum has two permanent exhibition halls; hall for Tomb of King Mooryeong and hall for ancient culture of Chungcheongnam-do

In the exhibition hall for Tomb of King Mooryeong,

visitors can see a restoration of Tomb of King Mooryeong.

Wooden coffins of King and Queen

the restoration of entrance of the tomb

necklace made of charred woods and gold.

[공주(公州)] 공산성(公山城)

The Fieldtrip to Gongju (1)

Gongju was the second captital of Baekje(B.C.18~A.D.660)

after the first capital Hanseong(the present Seoul) was destroyed by Goguryeo(고구려:高句麗)

From 475 to 538, Gongju(then Woong-jin) was the center of Baekje

until Sabi became the third capital in 538. 

Although Gongju was only the captital for about 60 years,

it has significant relics of the Baekje Dynasty.

  

Here is the first relic of Baekje, GongSanSeong(공산성:公山城)

The West Gate of GongSanSeong

The name GongSanSeong  is a combination of Gong(公) and SanSeong(山城).

'Gong' came out of 'Gongju(公州)', 'SanSeong' means a mountain fortress in Korean.

So the name GongSanSeong means the Mountain Fortress of Gongju.

However, GongSanSeong was called 'Woong-jin-seong(熊津城)' in the Baekje period.

because Gongju was named Woongjin at that time.

This fortress was constructed during the Baekje period.

However, the present stone-piled fortress was constructed in the Joseon Dynasty(1392~1910).

This fortress was made using soil and mud in Baekje period.

As a result, the culture of two dynasties co-exists in this fortress.

The stone monument constructed in the Joseon Dynasty

The Relics of Baekje Palace on the Top of the mountain

The relic of a pond constructed in the Baekje period

The Scenery of "Ssangsu-jeong" from the Pond Relic

There is a gazebo named "SsangSu-jeong" on the top of this mountain.

"SsangSu" means 'two trees', while "jeong" means a gazebo.

The gazebo got its name from the two trees that used to stand there.

In the Joseon Dynasty, King Injo(1595~1649) who had just evacuated Seoul (where a rebellion had risen), looked out at Seoul while leaning on the trees.

The rebellion was crushed, and the pleased King granted the trees a noble title.

However, they withered, so people built a gazebo to remember the trees by.

This is the SsangSu-jeong

The Relics of Baekje Palace

The Street of Gongju from Gong-sanseong

The Mountain Chiri

From GongSanSeong, you can see Chiri Mountain(就利山).

Chiri Mountain is a significant place in regards to the collapse of Baekje.

After the collapse of Baekje by the Tang(唐) and Silla(新羅) Dynasties in 660 , 

the ritual for rapprochement between the Baekje and Silla Dynasties was conducted on this mountain

with the participation of delegations from three other conturies.

Somebody says that Baekje's Chiri Mountain is not the actual Chiri Mountain

shown in the picture,

because the mountain in the picture is too low and the altar is nowhere to be found.

It is one of the mysteries of Baekje.