Post by MTR on Jul 30, 2009 17:27:02 GMT -5
At last we are safely past the spoiler point for this little historical tid bit .
Lets go back to Wang Gun he had 16 wives and enough children for a private army ,of his wives 3 were sisters .In the Goryeo Era the Wang family in order to keep the bloodline pure would marry their sisters and knowing this custom would not sit well in certain areas the women would use the name of their birthplace instead of the Wang Surname .
King Gyeongjong married both his sisters (NOT COUSINS AS KBS TRIED TO PLAY IT ) Hwangbo Su and Hwangbo Seol and when he died he was followed by his younger brother Chi later Seongjong .
Wang Uk was a son of Wang Gun and when he started sniffing around the recently widowed Seol he was at least 50 years older than her ,her being his Grand Niece (NOT COUSINS OK KBS )long story short he sniffed and sniffed and got the poor girl preggers and this did cause a huge scandal and both were banished from the Capital .
After the birth of their son the humiliated and disgraced Seol went and hung herself from a willow tree .Wang Uk did not survive her long ,old age claimed him and he popped his clogs whilst in exile .
Gang Jo found the little boy(being both son and great grand nephew to Wang Uk ) hidden in a Village (No Spoiler here the drama does not depict this or the next scene )and bought him to the capital ,upon seeing Seongjong the boy flew into his arms and cried "Father "being the first words he spoke and why i do not know considering his real dad was an old lecher .
I used Hulberts History Of korea Vol 1 for this tale .
Other points of interest
Gang Jo was an old veteran Warrior not the youngish man depicted here ,also Gang Gamchan at this point was a very young man .
The Dowagwer Empress of Khitan was an actual female warrior as were all Khitan Women ,her son Shenzong was a great king and Mother and Son often rode into battle side by side
Hulbert is neither mean or nice when it comes to Hunae ,unlike other histories ,but we will get to her antics later on for reasons of possible spoilers .
THE GORYEOSA this famed history of Goryeo that KBS loves to quote to try and make this historical mess (i use this term because as a historical drama its a mess ,as a romp its not too bad )seem legit was actually written by two scholars in the reign of SEJONG ,As such it should probably be viewed with a suspect eye as the aim was to discredit the Wang Family and boost up the Yi Dynasty .
My big point it seems there are more than a few touchy sexual taboo's here and on this one KBS did not have the bottle to depict the relationships in their proper light and instead have glossed things over worried about offending viewers instead .
Lets go back to Wang Gun he had 16 wives and enough children for a private army ,of his wives 3 were sisters .In the Goryeo Era the Wang family in order to keep the bloodline pure would marry their sisters and knowing this custom would not sit well in certain areas the women would use the name of their birthplace instead of the Wang Surname .
King Gyeongjong married both his sisters (NOT COUSINS AS KBS TRIED TO PLAY IT ) Hwangbo Su and Hwangbo Seol and when he died he was followed by his younger brother Chi later Seongjong .
Wang Uk was a son of Wang Gun and when he started sniffing around the recently widowed Seol he was at least 50 years older than her ,her being his Grand Niece (NOT COUSINS OK KBS )long story short he sniffed and sniffed and got the poor girl preggers and this did cause a huge scandal and both were banished from the Capital .
After the birth of their son the humiliated and disgraced Seol went and hung herself from a willow tree .Wang Uk did not survive her long ,old age claimed him and he popped his clogs whilst in exile .
Gang Jo found the little boy(being both son and great grand nephew to Wang Uk ) hidden in a Village (No Spoiler here the drama does not depict this or the next scene )and bought him to the capital ,upon seeing Seongjong the boy flew into his arms and cried "Father "being the first words he spoke and why i do not know considering his real dad was an old lecher .
I used Hulberts History Of korea Vol 1 for this tale .
Other points of interest
Gang Jo was an old veteran Warrior not the youngish man depicted here ,also Gang Gamchan at this point was a very young man .
The Dowagwer Empress of Khitan was an actual female warrior as were all Khitan Women ,her son Shenzong was a great king and Mother and Son often rode into battle side by side
Hulbert is neither mean or nice when it comes to Hunae ,unlike other histories ,but we will get to her antics later on for reasons of possible spoilers .
THE GORYEOSA this famed history of Goryeo that KBS loves to quote to try and make this historical mess (i use this term because as a historical drama its a mess ,as a romp its not too bad )seem legit was actually written by two scholars in the reign of SEJONG ,As such it should probably be viewed with a suspect eye as the aim was to discredit the Wang Family and boost up the Yi Dynasty .
My big point it seems there are more than a few touchy sexual taboo's here and on this one KBS did not have the bottle to depict the relationships in their proper light and instead have glossed things over worried about offending viewers instead .
