On the Date of the Coin Pattern Pottery in Korea
Journal Title: International Journal of Korean History - Year 2013, Vol 18, Issue 1
Abstract
The two ancient city sites-Feng Na and Meng Cun are very famous in Korean archaeological and historical research. Due to lack of history document, the building time of these two sites are commonly inferred from the Chinese coin-patterned pottery and porcelain which were digged out there. The paper-On The Early Coin-patterned Pottery and porcelain Unearthed in East Asia, as a representative paper written by china scholars, points out that the first building time of Feng Na and Meng Cun city sites could be dated back to Dongjin Dynasty, because the Chinese coin-patterned pottery and porcelain discovered there possessing many characters of that time. But the date of the crucial material evidence-coin-patterned pottery as storing vessel excavated from Zhen Jiang city can not be determined as Dongjin Dynasty, the possibilty of early or late than Dongjin Dynasty is both existed. The Chinese coin-patterned pottery and porcelain discovered in Feng Na city site are more than 30 articles, and are all more than 50 centimetre high. These vessels may be made in some place in China in one time, and transported to Korean, eventually reached the royal city of Baiji as a whole. The situtation of early period in Dongjin Dynasty was very messy, the Dongjin government not only faced the war intimidation from the north, but also had much problems such as government rebuilding, aristocrat or warlord rebelling, economical crisis, etc. So the Dongjin government can not keep or develop foreign relationship with southern part of Korean Peninsula. The celadons of the middle and late periods of Dongjin Dynasty are discovered repeatedly from tombs or city sites in Korean, but there almost no early period pieces found. This fact supports the idea that no intercourse between early Dongjin Dynasty and Korean . It was difficult too in West Jin Dynasty for large scale trade between southern part of China and Korean. Dongwu Dynasty may be the most proper time for those coin-patterned pottery and porcelain carried to Korean. In order to resist Wei Dynasty, Dongwu Government tried to develop foreign relationship with Liaodong government, and Le Lang-the neighbour area of Korean was controlled by Liaodong government some time. The Chinese coin-patterned pottery and porcelain may be conveyed to Korean by Dongwu Government in this period. After Dongwu Dynasty, the southern part of China lost power to develop foreign relationship with other countries, so the possibilty of coin-patterned pottery and porcelain sent to Korean in West Jin Dynasty is almost non-existed.
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Zheng Wei
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