고대 동아시아의 東宮과 신라 東宮

초록

The pond located northeast of Wolseong, which was called Anapji since Joseon Dynasty, was originally named Wolji during Silla Dynasty. The buildings around it, also known as Wolji Palace, have been considered as the East Palace of Silla owned by the crown prince. However, a new view was raised that Wolji Pond and Wolji Palace were the king’s residences, and that the prince’s East Palace was on the east side of Wolji Pond separated by a wall. This view is based on the premise that the word ‘East Palace’ means only the residence of the crown prince, not the king. Even before the Qin Dynasty of China, there were cases where the crown prince was called ‘East Palace’, but it was not a principle. The East Palace in the Western Han Dynasty was residence of the Queen Mother. The idea that the prince should reside in the East Palace was established at Eastern Han Dynasty, and became real at Western Jin Dynasty. But the word ‘East Palace’, which simply meant ‘a palace located in the east’, was also used at the same time. These two meanings would have been known to Silla as well. The construction of Wolji Pond and the surrounding buildings was to build a new palace and a huge pond in the northeast of the existing palace area, reminding us of the construction of Tang dynasty’s Daming Palace. The original name of Daming Palace was Penglai Palace, which was derived from Penglai Pond, similar to the Wolji Palace named after Wolji Pond. During construction, the idea that the crown prince should live in the East Palace was applied, and the prince was decided to reside in that palace. Eventually, Wolji Palace came to have a complex character of ‘the (king’s) palace in the east’ and ‘the residence of the prince’. Many things thought to have been used in the offices of the East Palace were excavated from Wolji Pond, and some were related to the crown prince. Among the offices of the East Palace recorded in Samguksagi, there were offices dedicated to serve the crown prince, and were also some offices that manage the facilities of the palace, reflecting the complex character of Silla’s East Palace. In the Ancient East Asia, the prince’s residence was not an exclusive space that the king could not use. The space used by the king and the prince did not necessarily have to be separated. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a change in which the crown prince no longer resided in the East Palace, but instead resided in the Shaoyangyuan near the emperor’s bedroom. It is not necessary to search Wolji Palace and the East Palace in different places under the premise that the space of the king and the crown prince must have been separated.

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