(Translation) 御製垂綸吟

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  I-1. 御製問業 어제문업(Eoje munup) 1774

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  I-2. 蕩平碑 탕평비(Tangpyeongbi) 1742

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  I-3. 御製均役濬川卽予事業 어제균역준천즉여사업(Eoje gyunyeokjuncheonjeugyeosaeop) 1773

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  I-4. 御製壹初 어제일초(Eoje ilcho) 1774

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  I-6. 御製廣蕩 어제광탕(Eoje gwangtang) 1774

Original Script

Classical Chinese	English
御製垂綸吟 垂綸吟 暮年政 其何事 爲其貢	(translation)

Translation

Student 1 : (Kanghun Ahn, Hu Jing, King Kwong Wong, Zhijun Ren)

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御製垂綸吟 Royal Instruction of King Yǒngjo to be Handed Down to Future Generation

垂綸吟 暮年政 Leaving a legacy for future generation, I wrote down this instruction about the policy during the last years of my reign.

其何事 爲其貢 What is this about? It is about the taxation policy.

自三代 至漢唐 From the Three Dynasties*1 till the Han and Tang periods,

凡有賦 只男丁 Every taxation policy had only affected male adults.

同男女 東風俗 [On the contrary,] Taxing equally both men and women is the tradition of the East.*2

今此舉 即繼述 Now this act is a continuation of the Chinese practices in the past.

幾百年 始校整 It was only after several hundreds of years that [this inconsistency with past practices] began to be rectified.

與惟此 曷勝懷 Solely through this way that my intention could be fulfilled.

舉其綱 用其目 Bringing up the essence and employing the details,

從容吟 十句成 I calmly completed this instruction in ten sentences.

同年同月日夜中書 In the same year, month, and day, written in the middle of the night

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1. The three Dynasties refer to the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties.
2. Koreans referred their own country as either Haedong (East of the Sea) or Tongguk (the Eastern Country).

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Further Readings

• View together with (Korean text) King Yeongjo’s Admonition for the People” (Eoje gyeongmineum 御製警民音, 1762)
• View together with (Translation) King Jeongjo, “Royal dictum to encourage farming” (Gweonnong yuneum 勸農綸音, 1781)