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Wie's opinion about history Sang-lon(尙論) were a part of On Ephistemologyg(格物說). Sang-lon was a genre of ‘reading history', so to speak historical commentaries. He wrote a lot of commentaries of history about policies, persons, kings, accidents etc., from Han-Dynasty of China to Ming-Dynasty. Especially, I found a new material to be regarded disappeared, which is named ‘Ming-History'. In Sang-lon Wie discussed the Royal's Road(王道) and the Rule of Force(覇道), the Great man(君子) and the Small man(小人). He respect rather the Three-Dynasties than Han-Dynasty or Dang-Dynasty. And he estimated highly the life-style of fairness. In the center of his opinion, the peace of people's everyday-life was emphasized. These trend of commentary continued to in Ming-History. The commentaries of Ming-History was in stream of the traditional view of history. He uttered the personality of the king, the importance of cultured bureaucrat, the prohibition of participating politics of the eunuch. Secondly, his commentaries gave us a reality of ‘the submission to Ming-Dynasty' of Joseon Dynasty. He criticized the realities of Ming-Dynasty severely. Hoever he had a great appreciation to the Ming's engagement in Imjin Invasion of Japan. In this respect, his idea of ‘the submission to Ming-Dynasty' was not a kind of blindness, but of the impressive experience. In base of clear distinct of the facts and commentaries, he discussed the history under the strain of principle(理) and situation(勢). Wie thought himself neo-confucian scholar and neo-confucianism Sil-hak(實學). In conclusion he read history as realistic base of social reform.