조선전기 태사묘太師廟의 변화

Abstract

The Taesa-myo shrine, now in the Andong area, is a sacred facility which enshrines the tablets of Kim Seon-pyeong, Gweon Haeng and Jang Gil, all representative historical figures of the Andong area. Commemoration of these ‘Three Meritorious Vassals’ had been overseen by the Andong area’s local Hyang’ri clerks since the Goryeo period, when these historical figures would have been enshrined at a place arranged where those Hyang’ri clerks would have worked (namely the “Eubsa” offices). It is also believed that those enshrining places would have been dominantly managed by the local figures from the Gweon house. In the Goryeo period, mythic figures who were regarded as local guardians used to be enshrined in the Seong’ hwang-sa local shrines, so the local Bu-sa(府司) offices could have overseen the enshrinement of these three vassals from a similar sentiment and spirit. There is virtually no record of how things were done regarding the three figures and their enshrinement in the early years of Choson, but in the mid-16th century, as the society’s consciousness of paternal kindred continued to intensify, the shrine for these figures came to be newly recognized by the local officials in the area. During the reign of king Jungjong, Kim Gwang-cheol, who was the maternal descendant of the house and also assigned to the post of Andong’s area prefect, newly constructed the “Three Meritorious Vassals Shrine” as a separate building, while paternal descendants of the house chose to modify the ritual protocols observed for memorial services at the shrine, to have them become more similar to the protocols described in Juja Ga’rye. Later these ‘Three Meritorious Vassals’ were newly established as the founders of the Andong Gweon house, as the force behind these memorial services shifted form local Hyang’ri clerks to influential Sajok figures, and as the name of the Shrine (originally “Samgongshin-myo,” The Three Meritorious Vassels’ Shrine) changed to “Taesa-myo.” However, such changes also led to potential controversies regarding issues of order and hierarchy in ritual ceremonies.