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PoliticsOctober 503(Lunar)

King Jijeung’s Reforms

King Jijeung fixed the country’s name as Silla and the ruler’s title as wang (king), promoted ox ploughing and banned human sacrifice at burials.

Replica of the Pohang Naengsu-ri Silla Stele, erected in 503 under King Jijeung — National Museum of Korea
Replica of the Pohang Naengsu-ri Silla Stele, erected in 503 under King Jijeung — National Museum of Korea

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"Silla" was glossed as "virtue renewed daily, embracing the four quarters". Jijeung encouraged ploughing with oxen, banned burying attendants with the dead, set up a market and market office in the capital and created provinces and counties.

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States and rulers at the time
Silla — King Jijeung
Places
Seorabeol (Gyeongju)

People

  • King JijeungAD 437 – AD 514

    monarch · Twenty-second ruler of Silla, who fixed the names Silla and wang (king), promoted ox ploughing and annexed Usan-guk

Before and after

Earlier
AD 501 Assassination of King Dongseong of Baekje
Later
AD 512 Isabu Conquers Usan-guk

Themes that include this event

  • Local Administration Through the AgesAD 250 – 1896

    From the five regions of the Three Kingdoms through nine provinces, the five circuits and two frontiers and the eight provinces to the thirteen — how directly the centre came to rule the regions