명재 윤증의 書簡 연구 — 아들 行敎에게 보낸 편지를 중심으로 —

Abstract

This research tries to highlight the characteristics and meaningness of Myungje's letters to his son Haengkoy out of the letters in <Myungje manuscripts>. When we review 200 of Myungje's letters to his son for 35 years, we easily know that these letters are not limited in the expression of his love to the son, Haengkoy. Myungje did not enter into an official career for his life, but his son, Haengkoy, did. Since the letters very prudently expressed Myungje's advice, encouragement, and carefulness to his son who entered into official work, we can read Myungje's thinking on official work and his perception on his era. Through the research on Myungje's letters to his son, we can find the letters' value and significance as followings. At first, the letters closely show us the realistic relationship between Myungje as the head of Soron party and Haengkyo as his son. Second, out of his advices to his son through the letters we find what characteristics Myungje regarded as importance issues in the practical science. Third, the letters vividly show the times when they lived in, and their individual agony and conflicts they suffered in his era. Fourth, Myungje's letters to his descendants are not only the simple letter but also have the role of home discipline or family education.