A history drama I watch recently
I am watching a history drama of a diligent Korean King. And as this king was the 3rd son of the former king. As in ancient Asia, mainly the position would be given to the eldest son from the wife, look, here ,also not from the son of the concubines. Position almost decided everything in ancient Asia. As Korea also adopted some tradition from China, that is Ru jia, which was thought to be founded by a Chinese scholar: Confusious.So at the beginning,this king future to be, since he was the 3rd son only,even his teacher didn't want to teach him well. As you know, a capable brother of the eldest successor would be a big danger. So the total environment was not encouraging this 3rd son.Anyway, he grew up, with good education, and very well setup way and idea to do things. As he still showed good sign of capabilities, so that he was envied by the eldest brother. So this adult 3rd son left the capital and lived together with the poor people in a distant area.
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I am assuming this is a true story. It almost sounds like the crown prince's father suffered from paranoia? One would think that the new queen's parents must have been threatening some disruptions for such drastic actions to be taken against them?
If not, talk about an injustice.
Well in a lot of ways this sounds a lot like the story of succession from NK's Kim Il-sung. I guess not much has changed there.
In a way, it is good that we don't need do that. but in this society, we still have to do things maybe we need take efforts or pains.
I like the way the director presented this kind of important charactor, as you know, as a king, he had some concubines, in fact, the director didn't show much of the concubines side. He put more efforts on how the king tried hard to push his idea among the important officials. How to creat the new technology in Korea under the shadow of big Chinese Ming Empire. And how to fight against the nomandic tribes in north-east of MIng empire. He lost his teacher in the battle, who taught him since he was a little boy. When he became a king, his teacher fought for him on the border as a general and finally died there.He lost his great supporter,who since he was an idle prince,hopeless to do anything under the shadow of being imposed to be a rebel to the crown prince,the supporter helped him to work with the poor people,and formed his own theory and idea of life.
This king also invented Korean written language. What the background was was that Korean noble class would learn chinese Gonggi characters. But it is almost impossible for the low class Korean to learn Chinese. Not to mention, noble Korean class refused to use the same written language with the low class. the king decided to find out how korean poor people to make the pronunciation, and after many years of working and studying.He created this much easier korean language. Which even an important scholar was against this inventory, when he found out the king lost his eyesight during the hard working time, this scholar was very ashamed and admitted that the king was an excellent person who did a lot of things for the korean people.
I like the perseverence of the king also. Such an important person,but he could still take the efforts to do things for poor korean people. And he never moaned for his own pain,sometimes the officials were just too much.The king even tolerant the officials who did hurt him,and who did harm his father in law.I just can't believe in that!
But there might be such a great person in life?!