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A Topic on the Advancement of Literature and the Compilation of Literary Selections by Chongjo

Chongjo, the 22th king of Choson Dynasty compiled all kinds of literary selections for the purpose of advancing the literature during the period of his reign. He thought that contemporary writings had got corrupted, therefore he planned to change them by means of reviving the Neo-Confucianism. The result was that many books came out and were spread among civil subjects. Chongjo encouraged new scholars of Kyujanggak, Royal library to compile thouse books activitily with him. To put it concretely, 『Asong』(selection of Chuja’s poems) 『Duyulpunwun』(selection of Dufu’s poems) Yukyulpunwun』(selection of Yukyu’s poems) 『Munwonpobul』(exemplar of documents and letters of state) 『Paljabakson』(selection of eight writer’s prose) 『Sagiyoung-son』(selection of Sagi, Historical records) and so on were published, then they were fine literary examples.