PoliticsMarch 757(Lunar)

Gyeongdeok Restores the Nogeup and Sinicizes Names

King Gyeongdeok abolished monthly salaries and restored the nogeup stipend villages; the same year he gave place names, and soon offices and titles, Chinese-style forms.

Gyeongdeok tried to reassert royal authority by sinicizing place names and official titles, and renamed the Gukhak the Taehakgam. Yet under aristocratic pressure the nogeup abolished by Sinmun returned in 757, a sign that the aristocracy was regaining strength.

The new titles reverted under King Hyegong. Gyeongdeok’s reign was also a cultural peak that saw Bulguksa and Seokguram begun and work start on the Divine Bell of King Seongdeok.

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States and rulers at the time: Silla — King Gyeongdeok

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King GyeongdeokAD 765
monarch · 35th king of Silla, who sinicized official titles and place names but restored the nogeup stipend villages; Bulguksa and Seokguram were begun in his reign

Before and after

Earlier: AD 756 Balhae Moves its Capital to Sanggyeong
Later: AD 771 Completion of the Divine Bell of King Seongdeok

Themes that include this event

Changes in the Land SystemAD 687 – 1950
From nogeup to the end of office land — how the rights granted to officials shrank, and gave way to modern land ownership