강릉과 율곡과의 관계

Abstract

From its old days, Gangneung has been called home of literacy for its reputation as a town to produce lots of prominent figures and home of decency for many dutiful sons and daughters and virtuous women. Yulgok was born the third son among 4 sons and 3 daughters of Lee Won-su and Sinsaimdang at his mother's maiden home, Bukpyeong-chon, Gangneung-bu in 1536. Yulgok, who layed his academic groundwork with the support of his mother, he strictly dedicated the funeral rites for his mother by means of Chu-tzuChia-Li(朱子家禮), a book about etiquette when she passed away. Even 3 years after his mother's decease he couldn't overcome the lamentation, wanders and retires to Geumgang Mountain. He finishes the mountain retirement after 1 year and stays in Gangneung for about 1 year before going to Hanyang(Seoul of today). There, he has a historic opportunity to meet Toegye(退溪) who was one of then great scholars at Dosan(Andong of today) in 1558 when he was 23 years old and gives an eulogy for him in a letter sent to Jomok(趙穆), one of disciples of Toegye by using a word, Youth should be regarded with respect(後生可畏). Yulgok is appointed to a position, Hojo-jwarang, after winning the first place in the higher civil service examination at 29 years of age in August of 1564. Later, he severs as Yejo-jwarang, Hongmungwan-gyori, Daesagan, Daesaheon, Dongjijungchubusa, Yijo-panseo, Yejo-panseo, Byeongjo-panseo. Yulgok, who spent his childhood in Gangneung until six years, visited Gangneung whenever there were matters great and small, keeping a close relations with the Neo-Confucian Literati. Included in this the Neo-Confucian Literati are Choi Un-woo(崔雲遇) and Kim Yeol(金說) from 12 Local Worthies(鄕賢). His demise is followed by building SeoWon(private academies) designed to cherish the memory of his decease and one of those halls built under the lead of the Neo-Confucian Literati, a doctrinal faction in Gangneung is a shrine, Seokcheonmyo(石泉廟). At the time when it was being built, this shrine was located on a hill called Wanggogae(王峴), in Haksan-ri, Gujeong-myun. Later in 1652, it was moved to the current location, Eonbyeol-ri, Gangdong-myun under the cooperation of Kim Ik-hee, then an magistrate of Gangwon-do and Lee Man-yeong, then a vice envoy of Gangneung, and renamed ‘Sondam-SeoWon’. Later it became the so-called royally chartered private academies(賜額書院) in 1660 by an appeal for royally chartered made in 1659.