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Park Yeon was a Korean scholar-official and musician in the [[Joseon]] court. He is credited with developing a new type of ''pyeongyeong'' (C: ''biānqìng''), a type of ancient Chinese lithophone percussion instrument, which he updated with the addition of pitch pipes.

Park Yeon was a Korean scholar-official and musician in the [[Joseon]] court. He is credited with developing a new type of ''pyeongyeong'' (C: ''biānqìng''), a type of ancient Chinese lithophone percussion instrument, which he updated with the addition of pitch pipes.

Born into a scholar-official family, Park passed the Confucian exams and earned a position in the bureaucracy in [[1424]]. However, soon afterwards he left his bureaucratic post in favor of serving as a court musician.

Born into a scholar-official family, Park passed the Confucian exams and earned a position in the bureaucracy in [[1424]]. However, soon afterwards he left his bureaucratic post in favor of serving as a court musician. In [[1430]], he studied [[Ming Dynasty]] treatises on ceremonial music, adapting them to Korean court music and developing new, simplified forms of ceremonial music which Korean tradition today says were easier to transmit to later generations.

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==References==

==References==

*Gallery labels, The Story of King Sejong.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/35134662373/sizes/l]

*Gallery labels, The Story of King Sejong.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/35134662373/sizes/l][https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/35773554922/sizes/l]

[[Category:Muromachi Period]]

[[Category:Muromachi Period]]

[[Category:Artists and Artisans]]

[[Category:Artists and Artisans]]