지리산과 태산, 한중 유람문학의 두 초상

Abstract

This paper presents an investigation into the aspects of Korean and Chinese excursion literature with a focus on the excursion works on Mt. Jiri in Korea and Mt. Taishan in China. Excursions to Mt. Jiri continued among a certain class of gentlemen during Joseon for hundreds of years. Those who were from the Mt. Jiri areas intensively created excursion works to the mountain. On the other hand, various classes of noted figures including the emperors made an excursion to Mt. Taishan. Figures of diverse propensities created excursion works to Mt. Taishan over several centuries. Those who came from distant places accounted for an absolute majority of the writers rather than those who were from the Mt. Taishan areas, which is a clear point of differentiation and characteristic between the excursions and excursion literature of Mt. Jiri and those of Mt. Taishan. It is closely connected to the representative forms identified in the excursion works of the two mountains. For instance, there is a clear difference between the perception of Mt. Taishan that it was "Mountain of the Emperor" for which the emperors held a religious ceremony and that of Mt. Jiri that it was "Mountain in the Shape of the Emperor" described in the excursion poems to the mountain. There have been plenty of researches on excursions to Mt. Jiri from various angles, but Mt. Taishan and excursions to the mountain have not been generalized in the academic circles in spite of their considerable influences on Korea's legacy culture. The study is significant in that it is the first research to compare and examine the excursion literature of two mountains representing Korea and China, respectively.