4. The Significance of the 663 Battle of Baekchon River as a Trifunctional System

The most striking of all is, after all, the Battle of Baekchon River. The Battle of Baekchon River is not well known in Korea, but in Japan it is greatly emphasized because it marks the point of separation from Baekje. In the Battle of Baekchon River, the Silla–Tang allied forces, by good fortune, defeated the Baekje Restoration Movement allied with Japan; seen through the trifunctional system, it is the battle in which East Asia's trifunctional system of the Korean peninsula's Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla was converted into the order of China, Korea, and Japan.

With the Battle of Baekchon River as the turning point, the ancient history that had been transmitted from Central Asia to East Asia disappeared, and the historical consciousness that each had formed its own state on its own became dominant.

It is said that the Baekje forces who went to Japan as a result of the Battle of Baekchon River crossed over to Korea again in large numbers during the Imjin War, following the Catholic believer Konishi.^[10] After the Spanish Armada—the supporter of the old Catholic faith—was defeated by England, which represented the Protestant faith, the Roman Curia dispatched Jesuit priests on a grand scale to China and Japan in order to recover through East Asia. As can be seen in the case of Matteo Ricci, the Pope's policy did not exert great force in China, but the weaker nation of Japan, aided by the matchlock technology learned from the Pope, sought to become the hegemon that would attack Asia and even India. The records of that time remain intact in the Roman Curia today.^[11]

The role of the Imjin War, which was under the influence of Baekchon River, is likewise connected to the trifunctional system. After the Imjin War, the West, having accepted the Eastern civilization conveyed by Matteo Ricci, re-emerged as the political center of the trifunctional system. Japan came to represent the West, while Korea and China faced the crisis of civilizational extinction, and its aftereffects have continued to this day, so that East Asia's cultural independence remains as yet incomplete.

Note — A simulation of the Oseongchwiru at midnight on the winter solstice of 663, discovered by Park Yong-gyu, a theorist of three-dimensional Five Phases, and provided by the Korea Meteorological Administration.

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