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Yoo-Sin tul
(68 moves)
In his encyclopaedia General Choi told us:
This pattern is named after General Kim Yoo-Sin, a
commanding general during the Silla Dynasty. The 68 movements refer to the last
two figures of 668 A.D., the year
What I’ve discovered
Kim
Yoo-Sin (595-673 A.D.) was a great general during the Silla dynasty.
As
the son of a noble family (of the royal house of Kaya, he was said to have been
the grand-child of the last Kaya king), he was selected for training as a
Hwa-Rang at the age of fourteen and made a Kuk-Son
at the age of eighteen.
Yoo-Sin
was good friends with the crown prince Kim Ch’un-ch’u, who went on to become to
become King Muyol, and Yoo-Sin’s brother-in-law.
At
thirty-four years old Kim Yoo-Sin was commander of the Silla armed forces.
In
642 Silla suffered a military defeat when Paekche launched a last desperate
attack; taking back some land previously belonging to the Kaya region.
It
was when Silla asked Koguryo for help against Paekche that Kim Ch’un-ch’u who
had been sent to on a diplomatic mission, found himself the captive of Yon Gae
Somoon (see Yon-Gae).
Yoo-Sin was sent to Koguryo to arrange the
release of Kim Ch’un-Ch’u.
Kim
Yoo-Sin and Kim Ch’un-Ch’u secured the help of Tang China in their battle to
unify Korea.
There
are many stories of the great Hwa-Rang Kim Yoo-Sin and one of these tales
describes the sword skills of Yoo-Sin; during an argument with a Chinese
general, Yoo-Sin’s sword is said to have leapt from its scabbard into his
hands, the Chinese general was so terrified by this that he apologised
instantly.
In
660 A.D. Kim Yoo-Sin and the Chinese general Su Dingfang (also Su Ting-Fang?)
met General Ge-Baek on the Hwangsan field, the 50,000 Silla and Tang forces
defeated Ge-Baek and his 5000 men.
This
may have been one of the last great battles of Yoo-Sin as it is sometimes
reported that he was too old to do battle against Koguryo in 668 A.D.
Silla
eventually unified Korea and drove out the Tang forces in 676 A.D.
Kim Yoo-Sin lived to be 78 years old and left behind ten children, he is one of Korea’s most famous generals and was posthumously awarded the honorary title of Heungmu Daewang, his tomb at the foot of Mount Song Hwa, is said to be a splendid as that of kings; and tells that he helped Moonmoo-Wang defeat Koguryo in 668 A.D. also going on to help repulse the Tang forces in the 670’s A.D.
(see
also Hwa-Rang & Yon-Gae & Ge-Baek &Moon-Moo)
For sources of this information please see the bibliography section of
the site.
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