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On the History of Early Medieval Sughd-Korean Relations Bobur Goyibov | Associate Professor on Sogdian Scripts, Head of the Department of the Samarkand State University

But since the photos have not been fully preserved, it is difficult to determine The Bei Shi, a chronicle of the Chinese Northern Hemisphere, contains
which state they represent. But what is clear is that the inscription on the western information about foreign foreigners in the Gaoli-Korean state. According to legend,
wall clearly shows Varkhuman's peculiar diplomacy in foreign relations and the the ancestors of the founders of this state were Zhumyn. She was born in the
allied relations on the northern wall. Although the embassies mentioned in the form of an egg five times larger than an ostrich egg when she was conceived by
murals were visited by experts in 655 on the occasion of the coronation of Sogdian the daughter of the god of the Hebo River. [35] Even though the ruler threw the egg
Ikhshidi Varkhuman (655-675) [32] , some researchers have suggested that the out, the animals turned around so as not to break it. The birds covered the egg
images in these murals were influenced by Chinese art values. [33] with their feathers and returned it to its mother. [36] Later, the boy who hatched from
Returning to the issue of the Korean ambassadors mentioned in the Afrasiab the egg reached the level of a ruler. In the capital of the Gaoli state, “there are
murals. Plates twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth on the western wall paintings depict five command managers. They wear sifyn on their heads like Chinese hats. And
the Korean ambassadors, moving towards the ruler in a separate series from the they put two bird patties on it [sifyn]. His clothes are a long-sleeved hat and wide
right. The difference between the Korean embassy and other embassies is that they trousers. The waist is tied with a belt. Shoes (bashmak) made of yellow leather. [37]
wear hats. The ambassador's hat in the first photo is circular in shape, with the tip They "put their hands on each other and carry out their duties". [38] They put on both
of the hat tied with a white ribbon. Two feathers were tucked into the tip of his hat. [34] sides of their hats before heading to the ruler’s palace. [39] Isn’t this an expression
Underneath the cap is a short black hair. The face of the person in the image is of Koreans ’respect for the birds that kept their ancestors? The same information is
drawn in white. The ambassador wore a light yellow short (knee-length) scarf. The repeated in the yearbook "Tan Shu". [40]
shawl is folded and tied with a black ribbon at the waist. The lower part of the The hats of the ambassadors in the Afrasiab murals, the feathers tucked into it,
chakman is surrounded by skirts. Light silk trousers are tied with string down to are the same as described above. A comparison of Afrasiab's murals with Chinese
the ankle. He was wearing shoes with a soft tip. His hands are on his chest, hiding chronicles reveals that Korean ambassadors are depicted on the West Wall. This
his long sleeves. He doesn’t seem to have anything in his hand. The weapon is is natural. Because throughout the GSR, the Sogdians had established ties with
worn over a special belt to be worn, with a running sword in a black sheath. The many peoples. In particular, the Koreans, skilled traders of their time, met with
[41]
second representative of the embassy was in a similar dress, with a white-yellow their Central Asian counterparts in trade in Chinese cities. It is also mentioned
face depicted in the structure. Her hair is as short and black as that of the first in the seventh century chronicles that Korean rulers often sent ambassadors to
ambassador. He also wore a black sword with two hooks. The distinctive features the residence of the Turkish khagan between the eastern and western rivers of the
of the clothes of these ambassadors are a long-sleeved short scarf, shalwar with a Yellow Sea (Khara-Muren – Mongolia). [42] There is also a periodic resemblance to
tie at the bottom and a round, feathered hat. the embassy and Afrasiab murals that came to Bamian (Afghanistan) in 727. [43] This
You will have to refer to written sources about which country this embassy embassy is also one of the embassies sent by the Koreans to the west.
came from.

[35] Bichurin Nikita, A collection of information about the peoples who lived in Central Asia in ancient times. In 3 volumes (Moskow-Leningrad: Ed.
USSR Academy of Sciences, 1950, Volume 2), 50.
[36] Bichurin Nikita, Volume 2, 50-51.
[37] Bichurin Nikita, Volume 2, 58.
[38] Bichurin Nikita, Volume 2, 59.
[39] Bichurin Nikita, Volume 2, 63.
[40] Bichurin Nikita, Volume 2, 99.
[32] Albaum Lazar, Painting Afrasiab (Tashkent: Fan, 1975), 74-75. [41] Schaefer Edvard, Golden peaches of Samarkand. A book about the black earth wonders in the Tang empire (Moscow: Nauka, 1981), 69-70.
[33] Kageyama Etsuko. A Chinese way of depicting foreign delegates discerned in the paiting of Afrasiob / Studia Iranica. (Paris: 2002, No). [42] Bichurin Nikita, Volume 2, 244-245.
[34] Albaum Lazar, Painting Afrasiab, 74. [43] Bichurin Nikita, Volume 2, 280.

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