This article examines various views about the racial origin of Koguryo presented by Chinese historians, especially discusses in detail the substances and problems of 'Theory of Sang People's Descendant' among these views. The Chinese Historians that p...
This article examines various views about the racial origin of Koguryo presented by Chinese historians, especially discusses in detail the substances and problems of 'Theory of Sang People's Descendant' among these views. The Chinese Historians that presented Theory of Sang People's Descendant emphasize their point based on the various grounds, but can't verify correlation between Koguryo and Sang People documentarily. Moreover, various grounds presented by them can't explain more than effects of the cultural exchange.
Nevertheless, the Chinese Historians present the Theory of Sang People's Descendant that is vulnerable logically, in order to separate Goguryeo from Korean History, to be connected with Chinese History in the origin of race, and to include Koguryo among Chinese History in the end. The Theory of Sang People's Descendant is a minority opinion, and not a main current in Chinese academic circles yet. But we must not exclude possibility that it will become a public theory of the Chinese academic world, considering the YongDam Mountain Fottress' s guidebook written that "there is no doubt that Koguryo is evolved from the Sang Dynasty, judging from the results of the latest research based on the documents and archeological evidence", the fact that Kyong Cheol Hwa is a leader of the DongBuk-GongJeong (Research Project on the Chinese East-North Area), In that respect, Korean historians had to pay attention to historical research trends in China.