With the accession of Wŭn-jong to the throne of Sil-la in 514 the Chinese custom of conferring a posthumous title upon a deceased king was introduced for the first time into Korea. Long before this the custom had prevailed in Ko-gu-ryŭ of naming a dead king after the place in which he was buried but to the very last the Ko-gu-ryŭ kings did not receive posthumous honorific titles. Păk-je however followed Sil-la’s example ten years later. King Pŭp-heung of Sil-la in 520 reorganised the official list and indicated the different grades of rank by different colors. The grades called _t’a-do_, _kak-kan_ and _ta-a-son_ wore lavender. Those called _a-son_ and _keup-son_, wore red, and carried the ivory memo tablets that are common today. The _ta-na-ma_ and the _na-ma_ wore blue. The _ta-sa_ and _sun-jo-ji_ wore hats of silk, shaped like the broad-brimmed, round crowned hats of the chair-coolie of the present day. The _pa-jin-son_ and the _ta-a-son_ wore red silk hats. The _sang-dang_, _chuk-wi_ and _ta-sa_ wore red hat strings. The kaleidoscopic colors of a royal Korean procession of today indicate what a prominent role the love of color plays in the oriental temperament. The Wei power in China was not pleased with the friendship that was springing up between Ko-gu-ryŭ and the Liang court. This came to a climax when she stopped a Liang envoy who was on his way to Ko-gu-ryŭ to confer investiture upon the king. It may be that Ko-gu-ryŭ realised that the Wei dynasty was waning to its close and that it was well to cultivate the good-will of the young and rising Liang power; but if so the forecast was false for the Liang power outlived the Wei only twenty-four years.