Hyeok Ryeon-jeong

Hyeok Ryeon-jeong was a scholar and official of the early Koryo period; his dates of birth and death are not known. Having passed the civil service examinations, he held the degree of jinsa. In 1100 he was sent on an embassy to the court of the Liao, the Khitan empire, to carry gifts, and in 1105 he was appointed scholar of the Jangnak pavilion. His English translators link his family name, rare in Korea, to that of the Helian, a lineage of Xiongnu origin, and see his ancestors as nomads who came from the mainland.

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• PoetryKyunyo-jon: The Life, Times and Songs of a Tenth-Century Korean Monk균여전Hyeok Ryeon-jeong · 1075Literature