The Original and Translation of the Monument to the Good King

The original text and translation of The Good King Monument are as follows:

Describe the myths and legends of Koguryo's founding, and briefly describe the behavior of King Tai; The second part narrates the historical facts of Wang Zheng's erecting a monument, Baekje, Silla's rescue, defeating the enemy, and seizing land and plundering in the process of levying Dongfu. In the third part, according to the legacy of King Tai Hao, the source and number of smokers of King Tai Hao's grave keeper are recorded in detail, and the law that the grave keeper is not allowed to resell is engraved.

Inscriptions are valuable materials for studying the history of Koguryo. Since the discovery of inscriptions in the early years of Guangxu, it has attracted the attention of Chinese and foreign historians. Due to the serious weathering of the monument, the inscription is unclear, and the rubbings handed down from ancient times are mostly made after the surface of the monument is repaired with lime, which leads to great differences in the interpretation and interpretation of this monument.

In the early 1980s, Chinese scholars, after in-depth investigation, read 89 new words, identified 62 controversial words, identified 29 words that used to be broken texts, but actually had no words, and * * * solved the word 180, thus making a major breakthrough in the study of Monument to the King of Tai.

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Historical background:

Haotaiwang Monument was built in the 10th year of Yixi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 4 14), with a history of over 1500 years. It is composed of huge natural breccia tuff columns, which are mostly found near Liangmin in Ji 'an and Shanglong in Yalu River.

The stone tablet is a square column with a height of 6.39 meters and a width of 1.34- 1.97 meters. There are inscriptions on all sides, and the font is between China official script and regular script. * * * Pay 44 lines, each line is 4 1 word. Excluding the inscriptions and inscriptions, there are 65440 words in the inscriptions.