Chong realized the truth from birth, because his nature was saga- cious. He interpreted the nine Confucian Classics into various dialects to teach others' He is upheld as the suzerain of Confucianism even today. Seol Chong's son Seol Jung-cop visited Japan in 779 as a Pangwan (middle-ranking official of the Silla delegation (Chief Envoy: Kim Nan-son,The nin of Japan" (H presented Pangwan Seol with the "Jeungsillasa seolpangwan siseo" ii F because he was impressed by the GMAygang sawwar eyeong nonso (42WEBkiiEaeilt, Commentary on the Diamond Sutr) written by Wonhyo, Pangwan Seol's grandfather. The docu ment contains the following: I greatly regret not having met the Great Monk wonhyo afer reading Commentary on thr Diamond Swna written by him. I heard that Ambassador Seol oung eop from Silla is the grandson of the Great Monk. Although am unable to meet the grandfather, I wrote this poem as an indication of happiness at meeting his grandson. The Japanese document that corresponds to this excerpt from Historial Reorde y the Three Kingdom is Chronides Japa ( New Year's Day in the 11 year of the reign of Emperor Konin); it contains a record of a Silla envoy being awarded a Japan a court position. More specifically, the rank of jeong 5 puwha and the rank of jong 5 pumba were supposedly granted to Chief Envoy Kim Nan-son and Daepangwan Seol Jung eop (it f respectively. 1 This referred to the Korean w system devised by means of using Chinese characters for their sound and/or corresponding meaning values in Korean. (Ha Woo-bong jinin was the first rank of the eight ranks enacted in 684 by Emperor Temmu. (Ha Woo-bong)