Hwarang Segi
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Template:Koreanname noimage Hwarang Segi (lit. Annals of Hwarang) is a historical record of Hwarang of Silla in ancient Korea. It is said to have been written by Silla historian Kim Dae-Mun in the reign of Seongdeok the Great (r. 702~737).
Hwarang Segi survived to the time that Kim Busik wrote Samguk Sagi, but was thought to be lost since then, because no reference to Hwarang Segi was made thereafter. However, an alleged manuscript of Hwarang Segi was found in 1989 in Gimhae, South Korea.
The importance of Hwarang Segi is that is one of scarce historical work about Silla by a Sillan himself, and it's free from confucian dogma and beliefs. Most of later historians have based their understanding of Three Kingdoms era on Goryeo Dynasty resources like Samguk Sagi and Samguk Yusa.
Hwarang Segi is made of 16 parts; one for the introduction and the fifteen for the biographies of fifteen Hwarangs. They are:
- Introduction
- Wihwarang
- Mijinbu
- Morang
- Ihwarang
- Sadaham
- Sejong
- Seolwonrang
- Munno
- Biborang
- Miseng
- Hajong
- Bori
- Yongchun
- Horim
- Kim Yu-shin
However, the historical validity of existing copy of Hwarang Segi is a subject of great controversy by the Japanese and majority of the Korean scholar; most scholars think of this as a forgery while some other argue against it.