신라 중대 宗廟制 운영과 五廟 始定

Abstract

The royal ancestral shrine of the Silla dynasty was originally folksy family shrine. The rulers of the middle period tried to raise their ancestral shrine to the rank of the whole-state ritual. As a result, its managing system was transformed based on Chinese Confucian shrine-system during the ruling time of King Shinmoon. But the new system did not settle at once. This is because the Kings performed the ceremony of accession to the throne in the holy palace and did worship ceremony only in specific ancestral chamber of the royal shrine at that time.<BR> A systematic operation of the Confucian shrine-system started after the establishment of Five-shrine during the ruling period of King Hyegong. To raise it to the rank of the whole-state ritual, the ancestor placed at the top place of the royal shrine was changed from Seonghan to King Michoo. Also, since King Muyeol and King Moonmu were regarded as the center of the middle period’s royal family and as their direct ancestors, their tablets were enshrined, which was a special treatment.<BR> After this, the importance of royal shrine and its rite was reinforced further, eventually becoming a ritual that represents Silla. Yet considerable importance was still attached to the holy palace and to its ritual. Thus, we can learn that a new trend of system was settled gradually in the state’s rite of Silla dynasty, while coexisting with the existing ritual.