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This study was began from the following questions. Asking the government to grant the ancestors the posthumous epithets(Ո՞) was active in Yeongnam's noble society in the late of Joseon Dynasty. Why did they ask the government to grant the ancestors the posthumous epithets? What kinds of efforts did descendants make to receive the ancestral posthumous epithets? What is the development about asking the government to grant the ancestors the posthumous epithets? How did the ancestral posthumous epithets have the effects on the descendants' life? To answer the above questions, Ocheon Jeong clan in Yeongcheon examined the cases to ask the government to grant the father and the son of Se-ah Jeong and Eui-beon Jeong who are his ancestors the posthumous epithets. The summary of the content which were handled here and the result are as follow:Ocheon Jeong clan appealed to the government to ask the government to grant Se-ah Jeong and Eui-beon Jeong the posthumous epithets and official commendation and granting the title giving credit for him(��) more than 10 times in the 18th ~ 19th centuries. Mr. Jeong asked the government to grant Se-ah Jeong the posthumous epithet because he regained the castle by raising an army in the cause of loyalty and to do Eui-beon Jeong official commendation because he gave up his life for his country and was good to his father. Official commendation was granted to Eui-beon Jeong received in 1784 by the several appeals for 50 years and the posthumous epithet called 'Gangeui' was done to Se-ah Jeong in 1788. Despite of them, asking the government to grant the ancestors the posthumous epithets by Ocheon Jeong clan had not been finished. In the 19th century, the descendents and the noble society in Yeongnam again appealed to the government to ask the government to grant Eui-beon Jeong the posthumous epithet and to demand praising the good deed and giving wider publicity to it(캱�) of Eok-su Rho who died with him with the form which writes the names of more than two persons in one place (“��) seven times. When they appealed to the government, 50~120 persons wrote their names in one place and when the noble persons did, 300 ~ 500 ones did them in it.
Why did Ocheon Jeong clan promote asking the government to grant his ancestors the posthumous epithets by bringing the many persons for a long time? He did all the things to show his ancestors(�@��) and to receive attention of the 'eternal(�������w)' head family(�ڼ�) officially. The head family is largely divided into the big head family(���ڼ�) and the small head family(С�ڼ�). The big head family should keep the an eternal ancestral tablet and the small head family moves it to the oldest son's house when four generations pass. The government officially recognizes the big head family because the ancestors who receive the posthumous epithets don't need to move the ancestral tablet. The posthumous epithets of the ancestors raise the descendents' status. Therefore, the descendents actively asked the government to grant the ancestors whose whereabouts are clear the posthumous epithets.
The human base that Ocheon Jeong clan appeal to the government with the document that hundreds of persons in dozens of villages is based on the school and blood ties. The school ties of Ocheon Jeong clan in the 16th ~17th centuries can postulate 'Eohyeonhakdan(��܎�W�F)' and people in it repeatedly married the family who lived in the central area of Yoengnam. But it is academically based on 'Galamhakdan(���֌W�F)' in the second half of the 17th century and marriage was extended to the northern area of Yeongnam. They could develop asking the government to grant the ancestors the posthumous epithets through the connections of the noble society of Yeongnam.