옛사람의 명산유람 - 芝山 曺好益을 중심으로

Abstract

Mountain visit at Chosun Dynasty was the love of national mountains but was far from an actualization process of culture and art. In actual, many mountain visits of that period were impacted by the change in the theory of self-cultivation. People of that age tried to directly visit the mountains and to search their way and truth through visible objects not cultivating their mind in a room, a monk’s cell and cave as the method of self-cultivation. People recorded their mountain visits in the literary genre called ‘youki’. In youki, there are two reasons why old people visited the mountains. The first reason is a solidification of the spirits. Therefore, the action of mountain visit must be focused on the solidification of the spirits. The second reason is the realization of mental freedom. The mount is not an extension of the actual world. In other word, the mountain visit is a denial of the actual world. So, people who visit the mountain can apply feelings such as a joy and anger together with sorrow and pleasure from their internal mind through giving up the false image of the world, and intend to obtain the mental freedom through the own true mind. In this study, the records of the mountain visit by Jisan Chohoik were examined from such position. In particular, because the records about myohyangsan and hyangpoongsanshow the mountain visit properly, there seems to be the significant meaning.