A study of Ethnic Identity in ancient Yeongseo region

In the Three Kingdoms, the ‘Ye(濊)’ which is west of Dandandaesan territory, belongs to ‘Nag-rang(樂浪)’, and the eastern area of the country is abolished, and ‘Ye’ becomes independent. This is the reason why there is ‘Yejeon(濊傳)’, but there isn’t ‘Maekjeon(貊傳)’ in the Three Kingdoms. If the consular area is also an example, it should be said that it borders Mahan to the south. The Yeongseo region is not a land of ‘Ye’. He said, “Goguryeo(高句麗) also borders Nag-rang ‘Ye’ and ‘Maek’ to the south.” ‘Buksa(北史)’ and ‘Suseo(隋書)’ are said to have “three days from the west of ‘Baekje(百濟)’ to reach Maekguk(貊國).” Kwak Bak(郭璞) (276~324)’s ‘Sanhaegyeong(山海經)’ said, “Maekguk is located in the northeast of the ‘Han River”, and the author, who was a contemporary of Maekguk, limited Maekguk to the Chuncheon area. Maek is recorded 3 times in the main period of the ‘Samguksagi(三國史記),’ and it is recorded in the Geography Book that Sakju is Maekguk and Gangneung is ‘Yeguk’. After the end of the 3rd century, Maek disappeared and ‘Malgal’ appeared in its place and worked with Baekje. Dasan was a Joseon dynasty man who was faithful to Sinocentrism. The Malgals are a race that constitutes the base people of Balhae. From the time of ‘Unified Silla’, the Malgals were recognized as an ignorant northern race. Throughout the ‘Goryeo’ and ‘Joseon dynasty’, the Malgals became more and more despised as a negative northern people. In the Joseon culture, the view of the Malgals as a race that lived in the same region as our contemporaries had a limit of pride on the intellectuals of the Joseon Dynasty. As a result, the existence of Malgal in the ‘Yeongseo region’ could be acknowledged, but Dasan(茶山) had a limitation that could only recognize Malgal as a DongYe in the Yeongdong region. Dasan saw Malgal as a Dong Ye, and he could not understand the same reason that Malgal was of the three houses quarreling with Baekje in the northeast of Baekje. In the end, Dasan doubted many facts, but dismissed Malgal of the Baekjebongi as a Dong Ye. As a result, many researchers naturally conceived the theory of ‘Yeongseo Ye’. This has become a factor in the distortion of the historical record by ignoring the clearly recorded record in the Hanjungseoji today. The tomb is the most important clue to the identity of a group in ancient societies. In the Yeongseo region, up to 30 Jeoksokchongs(積石塚) have been reported to have been excavated, but not a single one has been excavated in the Yeongdong area. Due to the zeitgeist of the Choson Dynasty, the ’Yeongseo Ye‘ Theory commits the folly of misjudging the Yeongseo Maek, which has been passed down to the present day.