老柏軒 鄭載圭의 「頭流錄」에 나타난 일생의 한 국면

Abstract

This study set out to examine the significance of excursion in the life of Nobaekheon Jeong Jae-gyu, who was the head of the Nosa Gi Jeong-jin school that was active in the Gangwoo region in the 19th century, by looking into Duryurok that he wrote after his trip to Mt. Jiri in August, 1887. Those days, the Seongjae and Hanju schools were active in the Gangwoo region along with the Nosa school. Gangwoo scholars' excursion to Mt. Jiri provided a venue of social intercourse among these schools, but the Nosa school made a late start compared with the other schools and had much fewer literary figures as its members than the others. Jeong Jae-gyu found his lifetime task in the spread of the Nosa school across the Gangwoo region. His full intention was reflected in his excursion to Mt. Jiri in 1887 as it became a clear source of divergence in his academic life. It took only ten years for him to inherit the core of Nosahak once he started study under Gi Jeong-jin. After the death of his teacher, he devoted himself to the intensification and spread of Nosahak within the Gangwoo region by publishing collections of literary works and promoting the pursuit of study among literary figures. The heads of two schools that dominated the Gangwoo region passed away one year before his trip to Mt. Jiri, and the schools engaged in grand activities to publish the collections of their teachers' literary works and intensify their learning through pursuit of study. In this atmosphere, Jeong decided to take a trip to Mt. Jiri encompassing the entire Nosa school within the region, which was why only the members of the Nosa school accompanied him on the trip unlike other trips those days. Those who were not able to accompany him on the trip went around the excursion course and made a visit to their alumni and literary peers to solidify their friendship. His excursion to Mt. Jiri happened on August 18～28, 1887, starting in Samga, Hapcheon and returning home after Danseong, Sancheong, Daewonsa, Cheonwangbong, Deoksan, and Sinan. One theme that penetrated his trip to Mt. Jiri from the beginning to the end was "his teacher Gi Jeong-jin." His Duryurok was conceived in his dream that he dreamt in Spring of 1887. In the dream, his teacher scolded him, asking "What would the pupils of Confucius have done if he had not climb the Great Mountain?" Believing that his teacher appeared in his dream to make him realize that he had not been working hard on his study, he climbed Mt. Jiri in August of the same year. Even standing on the highest peak Cheonwangbong, however, he was not able to find an answer to his teacher's question. Only after climbing down the mountain did he find an answer through twists and turns. The answer he found was that "a progressive process of study through excursion to mountains and its benefits." It was his personal opinion of study and also his perception of the Nosa school's situation in the Gangwoo region those days. It also represented the lesson that his teacher tried to make him realize even by scolding him in his dream and the realization that he had through the process of excursion to the mountain.