조선시대 태조 팔준도와 관련 문학의 공존 및 변화상 비교

Abstract

This paper starts from concerns about cultural legacy of horse, and focus on Taejo(太祖)’s eight horses picture and related literature in Joseon(朝鮮) dynasty. Originally eight horses stem from China’s Zhou(周) king Mu(穆王) though, royal family of Joseon dynasty highlighted the eight horses of Taejo who found the monarch, through the epic poem ‘Yongbieochunga(龍飛御天歌). And King Sejong(世宗) made famous painter Angeon(安堅) to depict a eight horses picture(八駿圖) and scholars in the Administration of Royal Academic Institute(集賢殿) to write a related literature. Now we have the relics of restored eight horses picture by the order of king Sookjong(肅宗) and lots of related literature. The eight horses picture and related literature affected each other, so We can envisage disappeared original picture from another works. According to the result of study, first picture would embodied of bloody horses which fought in a fierce battle with king Taejo, gathering on a one screen. Whereas restored picture show the beautiful feature in the form of separated picture. And lots of literature represent special strong point by the information of history, vivid depiction and brilliant rhetoric. These features assure the special aesthetic statue of the literature by itself. As time goes by, Taejo’s eight horses picture and literature were declined. By the way, picture showed unexpected resurrection in the folk painting, among which one of Taejo’s eight horses represented again for the public. Technically Taejo’s eight horses picture and literature emphasize sovereign power, while it's fundamental nature is hymns of praise and these works were destined to symbolize the deceased king’s power. That made the theory of the Divine right of Kings to revive in medieval culture. But lots of works about horse appeared instead of eight horses of Taejo later.