18, 19세기 문인지식인층의 원예 취미

Abstract

The 18th century in Korea is the period full of energetic intellectual works more than any times. Big changes happened in the intellectual paradigm. The intellectuals who had gotten used to the ideological and thoughtful speculation have begun to give their attention to the things themselves. Thanks to the books coming from China and the development of city cultures based on the economic chances, they have met big chances in their life style itself. They had to urge the encyclopedic knowledge giving the magnified information. And more, the gardening culture has been booming in the center of Seoul from the mid of 18th century. Floriculture and gardening have been popular among the intellectuals, writers, so that hobby became one of their distinguished cultures. They loved the flowers so much that they were very eager to plant them, gardening and gathering all connected data. This was the general hobby of writers of that period. As the floriculture has suddenly been popular, the trading of flowers also was so active that the new job of pot-planting appeared at that time, many kinds of chrysanthemum have been produced and many have been trying to take the roots of daffodil from China, so the government prohibited from taking them by law. As the technics of floriculture has been more spread, the writings of it have been so active that the artificial flowers made by papers or beeswax have become their charm. All this tendence which had never been imagined before came on the basis of the changes of culture of the 18th century. This is a phenomenon of well-being appeared by the increase of attention to the things themselves, the more active culture exchanges with China and Japan and the wide spread of city culture.