조선말기 선택서 연길귀감涓吉龜鑑 고찰— 건축택일 및 이사택일을 중심으로

Abstract

Gwansanggam (觀象監, The Royal Astronomical Observatory) is the national government office in Joseon. This government office took charge of state affairs such as astronomy (天文) geography (地理) Yeoksu(曆數) Jeomsan (占算) Cheukhu (測候) Gakru (刻漏). Also, this government office compiled and published a book relevant to these state affairs. There is a selection book (選擇書) in one out of this. A selection book is the one that chooses the date in Sarye (四禮) and Ilyongbaeksa (日用百事). Yeongilguigam (涓吉龜鑑), which is a literature as a selection book of this study, was edited and published in the period that is closest to modern times, thereby being able to be said to be a selection book that will need to be noted in setting the date of today. A block book of Yeongilguigam (涓吉龜鑑), which was edited by Nam Byeong-gil[南秉吉], who is a Gwansanggam (觀象監) government official and a scholar, and which was corrected by Im Geung-yeon [林兢淵], is possessed by many academic institutions at home and abroad, but wasn’t carried out a research. Among many selections that are contained in this selection book, this study considered the selection on ‘building a house’ where a person dwells, ‘building a shrine’ that worships an ancestral tablet, and ‘moving’& ‘moving into a house (入宅)’ as a newly-built house. A house is constructed by selecting an auspicious year. In setting the date of building a shrine, of moving, and of moving into a house, a shrine is built to be moved by selecting a lucky day. Still, ‘day without a hand’, which is being much used in selecting the date of moving in modern times, is just a folk common saying that wasn’t included in the documentation of a selection book.