Related information about Koryo Camp

Regarding the origin of "Gaoliying", there are many different legends in Gaoliying Town. To sum up, there are basically two types.

One theory is that during the Sui Dynasty, the imperial court used troops against Goguryeo three times, but failed to win. In the Tang Dynasty, even though Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, personally conquered the country, it was unsuccessful. Later, it was not until 668 AD that Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty took advantage of Goguryeo's internal conflicts to defeat it in one fell swoop, making Goguryeo surrender to the Tang Dynasty and pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty every year. The Tang Dynasty was also very considerate of the tribute envoys from Goguryeo and specially built a post station for them on the road that the tribute envoys must pass through for them to stay and rest when paying tribute every year. The inn was just north of today's Nanwang Road Village in Gaoliying Town. The legend also says that the post station at that time was like the embassy today. Many people brought by the tribute envoys stayed here to guard the inn; bitter. Later, these people settled here and named it "Korea Camp".

Another version of the legend is that Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty conquered Goguryeo, and a large number of Goguryeo people moved to the Central Plains. Some Goguryeo people moved to today's Goguryeo area and settled here. In order to prove the legitimacy of this legend, they also relied on "New Book of Tang·Biography of Goryeo". The book states that in the first year of the General Chapter of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty (AD 668), after Goguryeo was defeated, "Tang Fan collected 690,000 households from Goguryeo."

As for the origin of Goguryeo camp, the existing historical records are also different. "Shunyi County Chronicle" states that "the Goguryeo people who migrated inland during the Tang Dynasty settled here and later developed into a village." The "Shuntianfu Zhi" states that "Tang post stations were used by Goguryeo envoys to form villages."

There is no more historical data to prove which statement is the most accurate, but one thing is certain: Goryeo Camp was indeed named after the Goguryeo people lived here. There is no way to find the descendants of the Goguryeo people in the Goryeo camp. So, did the Goguryeo people who settled here integrate into the Han people, or did they migrate elsewhere? Due to the separation of more than 1,300 years and the changes in history, it is impossible to verify, but one thing is certain that many locals have a special emotion for the current Goguryeo. Whenever someone mentioned Goguryeo to them, they said that their ancestors had some connection with Goguryeo.

In order to clarify the relationship between Goguryeo and the Goguryeo Kingdom in the Tang Dynasty, and whether the ancestors of the current Goguryeo people are the Goguryeo immigrants back then, many Goryeo people have made a lot of discussions in this regard, but Because there are too few historical materials, no more clues can be obtained.

According to recent research by historians on the Goguryeo Quan family entering the Tang Dynasty and finally fully integrating into the Chinese nation, the Chinese nation has integrated many surrounding ethnic groups during its long development process, including many Goguryeo people. This process of integration has become difficult to verify with the changes of history. The same is true for the Goguryeo people who lived in the Goryeo camp at that time. One kilometer north of the current No. 2 Village of Gaoliying Town, there is a place called "tile land", which was the location of the inn. The land is about 70 acres, and because the thin layer of soil is covered with broken bricks and tiles, no crops have grown over the years, so it is called "tile land" by the locals. The broken bricks and tiles in the "Wadi Di" are all blue-grey. Someone once dug out relatively complete tiles. After research, it was proved that they were fired in the Tang Dynasty.

According to local village cadres, valuable cultural relics were unearthed as early as the 1960s and 1970s, including a 1-meter-long and 70-centimeter-wide stone tablet with a large number of words on it. I couldn't understand the classical Chinese text, and later the stone tablet disappeared. Some villagers said that during the intensive farmland construction in the early 1970s, the production team at that time tried to transform this "tile land" and mobilized many members to sift through the tiles in the field. Some members found it strange. Copper trinkets, these are probably left by the Goguryeo people. It's a pity that these things are no longer found.

The "roofed land" is the only relic that proves the life and stay of the Goguryeo people in the Goryeo Camp. Since the 1990s, many scholars have visited here for inspection. It is inferred that the inn back then was most likely destroyed by the war. Because the Beijing area was the origin of the "An-Shi Rebellion". Later, the Tang Dynasty used the Hu people to quell the rebellion. The war burned through Yanzhao Youzhou, and the Korean camp could not escape the disaster. Because it is difficult to grow crops, the current "ballast land" has been rented out to two brick factories as a place to stack bricks. Although the brick factory has leveled the site, it is still easy to find the tile ballast left over from that time.