<순종대왕경연가>를 통해 보는 궁중연향의 영향력과 의의

Abstract

The <Contest Lyric of King Soonjong> investigated in this study is a lyric work created after the ‘Gichuk Jinchan Euisik’, which means a Court Ceremony (Jinchan: 陳餐) held at the year of Gichuk (己丑), during the reign of King Sunjo, and entails its own value as a work that described the story after the court banquet (宮中宴享). The ‘Gichuk Jinchan Euisik’ was an event to celebrate both the 40th birthday of King Sunjo and the 30th anniversary of his throne together, and it was a large-scale banquet with an enormous budget. Such a big court banquet was planned and organized by Crown Prince Hyomyeong (孝明世子), who was taking care of the affairs on behalf of King Sunjo at the time. He delivered a lot of political messages, especially through the court banquets, and among them, the ‘Gichuk Jinchan Euisik’ is known as the court banquet that Crown Prince Hyomyeong has exerted to effort most. In addition, Yang Kwan-chan, a young Confucianist who watched the ‘Gichuk Jinchan Euisik’ at ‘Pyongyang’, made a lyric called through <Contest Lyric of King Sunjong> after the court banquet. In this work, Yang Gwan-chan even describes the perspective of Confucian scholars, who watched the court banquet, on the Joseon royal court, the dignity of the grand court banquet, and the political moves of Crown Prince Hyomyeong. And through the findings thus far, this study has significance in that it was possible to discover how the performance of the ‘Gichuk Jinchan Euisik’ at the time was accomplished. The precedent studies on the court banquets, mainly based on the ‘Euigue’, have achieved the performance that investigated the preparation and practice of the court banquets and also examined the purposes of them. One step further from here, this study is thought to be valuable in that it elucidated the outcomes that occurred after the royal court banquets, which required an enormous budget and a long preparation time.