동계(桐溪) 정온(鄭蘊) 서원배향(書院配享)의 제주교육사적 의미

Abstract

Donggye(桐溪) Jungon(鄭蘊) is a government official in the late Chosun Dynasty who contributed to the development of confucian education in Jeju. While exiled to Jeju, he engaged in various teaching activities including the making of various confucian reading and study groups. In fact, it is his enshrinement to Gyulim Suhwon(橘林書院) that played the most important role in Jeju’s confucian education. During the Manchu war of 1636, Jungon opposed to the reconciliation with Manchurians. He at last attempted to kill himself as Chosun made a peace agreement with Manchurians. Jungon was enshrined in Gyulim Suhwon, one of the major confucian memorial and lecture hall in Jeju, for this patriotic sentiment. Honoring a distinguished person at Suhwon is an important educational event in Confucianism. It is because the event inspires students to learn after the deeds of a great person. By enshrined in Gyulim Suhwon, Jungon had presented a model for confucian education in Jeju for more than 200 years. As a result, Jeju people could inherit the history of Namyung Confucian School((南冥學派).