19세기 강화·개성·광주·수원 공도회 출신자의 진출실태 분석

Abstract

This study is an interpretation on advance to public degrees(SaengWon生員·JinSa進士·MunGwa문과) of confucian learners who passed special preliminary examination(GongDoHwe公都會) in four major districts(Kanghwa, Gaesung, Gwangju, Suwon). First of all, it is supposed that confucian learners who passed special preliminary examination was more competent to achieve public degrees than others who passed general preliminary examination. Second of all, among the successful candidates who passed the special preliminary examination, more than five times of them applied to examination for JinSa degree than to SaengWon degree. And, applicants to examination for JinSa were more competent than the applicants to SaengWon degree. Third of all, the confucian learners who had tried to achieve the public degrees were equipped with the bilateral ability for writing poem and for comprehension on Confucian scriptures. Fifth of all, among the candidates or SaengWon, JinSa, so many number of their father were not had any public title. There was no critical evidence to assert that in Chosen Dynasty the public degrees were a sort of ascribed social status.