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Queen Jinseong

Silla's 51st ruler and third queen regnant, whose demands for overdue taxes set off peasant revolts across the country

In 888 she had the gakgan Wihong and the monk Daegu compile the Samdaemok, a collection of hyangga that no longer survives. With state finances strained by aristocratic extravagance and bad harvests, pressure for taxes set off the uprising of Wonjong and Aeno in Sabeol Province in 889, and in 896 the "Red Trousers" bandits reached the western edge of Gyeongju. Choe Chi-won submitted his ten-odd reform proposals in 894, but no reform followed. In 897 she abdicated in favour of her nephew, King Hyogong.

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3 related events

  1. 1
    AD 888Compilation of the Samdaemokmonarch

    At Queen Jinseong’s command the minister Wihong and the monk Daegu compiled the Samdaemok, an anthology of hyangga; it has not survived.

  2. 2
    AD 889Uprising of Wonjong and Aenomonarch

    When Queen Jinseong’s court pressed for overdue taxes, Wonjong and Aeno rose at Sabeol-ju (Sangju), the first of peasant revolts that spread across the country.

  3. 3
    AD 894Choe Chi-won’s Ten-odd Reform Proposalsmonarch

    Choe Chi-won, a scholar of head-rank six, presented some ten urgent reform proposals to Queen Jinseong; they were accepted but never carried out in the face of true-bone resistance.

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  • Wonjong

    Peasant leader who rose with Aeno at Sabeol-ju (Sangju) in 889

  • Aeno

    Peasant leader who rose with Wonjong at Sabeol-ju (Sangju) in 889

  • Yanggil

    Late Silla strongman of Bugwon (Wonju) under whom Gung Ye rose, and who was later defeated by him

  • Choe Chi-wonAD 857

    Scholar of head-rank six who passed the Tang examination for foreigners, won fame with his proclamation against Huang Chao, presented ten-odd reform proposals to Queen Jinseong and left the Gyewon pilgyeong