[KS] Source for legend of Buru going to Mount Do?

[Donald Baker]

I suspect this reference to Dan'gun sending his son to China is much later than the Samguk yusa. It probably is an invention from the 17th or 18th century.    Hong Manjong is not the most reliable historian.

Don Baker


On Apr 9, 2014, at 3:43 PM, Andrew Logie <andrew.logie at helsinki.fi> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I am trying to find a source to the legend of Dan'gun sending his son Buru  (扶婁) to Xia king Yu's (夏禹) gathering of vassals at Do mountain (塗山).
> 
> This is the original passage:  夏禹十八年, 會諸候於塗山, 檀君遣子扶婁, 朝焉.
> 
> The episode is borrowed by Sin Chaeho in his Joseon-sanggo-sa <조선상고사> in the 3rd section of the 2nd main chapter (used as a device through which Old Joseon transmitted civilization to China).  He attributes it to the Gogi (古記) which made me think it may be from the Samguk-sagi or Samguk-yusa, but it doesn't seem to be there.
> 
> Searching on the Korea History Database (http://db.history.go.kr/) the passage is found in two obscure places.
> 
> 1) In a cross reference (校勘) footnote of the <淸史稿>  朝鮮列傳 which says:
> 
> 『淸史』에는 ‘朝鮮自檀君開國 遠友帝堯二十五年戊辰 禹會諸侯於塗山 檀君遣子扶婁朝焉 箕封以後 史傳詳矣’라고 되어 있다.
> 
> In which case, what book is the original『淸史』?
> 
>  2) In a passage from Yi Won-ik's (李源益1792-1854) 『東史約』which seems to imply it coming from the Samguk-yusa.
> 
> 
> Then, separately, I'm familiar with Yu Deukgong (柳得恭 1748-1807) citing the same passage in his <二十一都懷古詩> poetry cycle which he attributes to a Dongsa <東史> .  According to modern footnotes, this Dongsa, is most likely to be Hong Manjong's (洪萬宗 1643-1725) <東國歷代總目> which would seem to be the earliest surviving source carrying the same passage.  Unfortunately I don't have a copy to check where Hong attributes it.
> 
> So, any suggestions on what the original source might have been?  What major sources could have survived until late C16th only to be lost?
> 
> And apologies in advance if I've overlooked anything very obvious (perhaps it is somewhere in the Yusa).
> 
> sincerely
> Andrew Logie
> 

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