<朝鮮經國典>에 나타난 周禮 이념

Abstract

This paper is to examine philosophy of Jurye(周禮, national rituals) described on Joseongyeonggukjeon. As it is widely known, Sambong Jeong Do-Jeon (三峯 鄭道傳), regardless of evaluation by posterity, is definitely a figure who established 500 years of Joseon with almost everything handled by his own hands from presenting founding principle of Joseon to organizing the bureaucratic system. In the third year of King Taejo (1394) with Jurye as an ideological model for social innovation, Jeong Do-Jeon wrote Joseongyeonggukjeon and offered it to the king. Joseongyeonggukjeon is a sort of guide for new codes written by Jeong Do-Jeon as a part of defining culture and institutions of the new dynasty, which is based on Confucianism, the ruling idea of the new dynasty. Regarding Yukjeon (六典) system of Jurye as an ideal model, he set the central administration system as Yukjeon system and attempted implementation by adapting to the then reality through renaming Gyojeon (敎典), Hyeongjeon (刑典) and Sajeon (事典) as Bujeon (賦典), Heonjeon (憲典) and Gongjeon (工典) respectively while keeping names of Chijeon (治典), Yejeon (禮典) and Jeongjeon (政典) on Jurye. Joseongyeonggukjeon can be called the code of Joseon Constitution but its detailed provisions have not been passed today and what has only remained is its series (擔序) and outlines of each item (小序) of Yukjeon. It was not a complete code but suggested ideology and values for a future code to pursue and it is undeniable that Joseongyeonggukjeon served as a guide not only for Gyeongjeyukjeon, the very first code of the state, but also for Gyeonggukdaejeon.