조성당 김택룡의 예안 생활과 시조 창작

Abstract

This study examined the major aspects of the life of Joseongdang Kim Taek-ryong and his life of tasting arts, and investigated the producing context of his Sijo and its meaning. Kim Taek-ryong, as a nobleman who resided in Ye-an area, Kyeongsangdo and inherited the scholarly lineage of Jo Mok and Lee Hwang, entered a government office in his middle age and watched the chaotic political situation of in the period of Kwanghaegun, so he resigned his position and returned back to his home town and spent his old age as a leisurely man. Kim Taek-ryong held high status in local society by years' experience and scholarly position based on his stabled economic background, and this enables him the life of tasting arts. His life of tasting arts could be classified in two. First, the leisurely living and sole enjoyment of the arts. Second, tasting and enjoyment of the arts with the local gentries. In this process, they enjoyed poems and writings, dances and songs, and there is a high possibility that they enjoyed Chinese poem and songs and Korean poems and songs together. The important point related to Kim Taek-ryong's composing a Sijo is the context of the composition and enjoyment of Korean poem and song, which was inherited by area relation and scholarly lineage. Particularly among people he closely associated with, Jeong Gu, Park Seon-jang, Jeong Kyeong-se and Lee Si etc. composed Sijo. The Sijo work of Kim Taek-ryong is the form of the response on the recommendation for retaking government office and the expression of the conviction he had, and it could be the work in which author's conduct to keep his righteousness and cleanness in peaceful life along with the consciousness of self-righteousness for preserving wisdom and self protection through keeping distance with the political reality is outstanding. Kim Taek-ryong shows the typical model of the gentry's life of tasting arts, which has been continued since 16th century in the area of Ye-an, Kyeongbuk, and he hold a position in the flow of Sijo composition which was succeeded to scholarly students of Toegye in early 17th century in the history of Korean poems and songs.