Chorye rite for the Great Emperor of Heaven performed on New Year's Day正旦行天皇醮禮文
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 120 Chinese characters · reading time 1.3 min
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 38 The collected writings of Yi Gyubo of Goryeo, gathered and cut in woodblock by his son Yi Ham in 1241 and revised and enlarged by his grandson Yi Ikbae in 1251. It holds poems and rhapsodies, memorials and reports sent up to the king, records written for temples and pagodas, stele and tomb inscriptions, letters and prefaces, and the state letters that passed to and from the Mongols during the invasions. The Lay of King Dongmyeong, which sings the founder of Goguryeo, stands in volume 3 of the first collection, and the daily life of a man who called himself the White Cloud Layman — with his wine, his zither and his verse — fills the later collection. The book closes with the last poem he wrote as his eyes failed and he laid down the brush, and with the dirge and tomb inscription others made for him after his death.
And so forth. The time when blessing arrives hangs upon the first of the year and the month and the day, and what one who handles armies must do first is to get the help of heaven and of earth and of men.
Prostrate I consider that we So-and-so have respectfully borne the stern command and come forth to strike the obdurate people. Looking to the root of the crimes they have committed, they ought not to keep their lives even for a moment; how then have they stolen a stroke of luck and escaped punishment still? Reckoning that the year's seasons have already gone once round, I am ashamed to have nothing to show for it; yet the light of the new year has barely begun to stir, and I pray that something may be accomplished.
The more do I spend my red heart and look up and trouble your hidden regard. I dare to look to the way that has no partiality: give us back the majesty that wordlessly helps what is compliant.
Following the handle of the Dipper as it points to the In quarter (寅方), let us break the brigands' camp to the east; and as the sovereign's seat has its back to the Gam quarter (坎方), let the writing of victory be reported to the north. And so forth