朝鮮後期 <瓢巖誌>를 통해 본 慶州 李氏의 瓢巖崇慕와 宣揚事業

Abstract

Pyoamji is a record of Alpyeonggong, the founder of Gyeongju Lee, and a detailed record of his descendents' respect for and affection toward their ancestors and the aspect of the ancestors' deeds inheriting the family's traditions. As a result, Pyoamji has characteristics as a genealogy of a family and also shows a cross section of Korean history from the ancient to modern history. According to Pyoamgi and other historical records, his descendents did not have interest in their founder Alpyeong until the late Joseon era after Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592 and the Second Manchu Invasion of Korea in 1636. They identified Pyoamjae was the birthplace of their founder, put up a sign, set up an epitaph, erected a stone monument, and built a monument house to admire and preserve the founder's achievements. Since then, every 20 years or so, they repeated restoration three times because of frequent inundation of the monument and the monument house by Dongcheon river. Finally, they transferred and established the monument and the monument house above Pyoam toward the mountain. The government financially supported the establishment of the monument house and they built an altar as well. His descendents organized a fraternity in order to respect their founder and preserve the historical site. Such effort led to the construction of Pyoamjae according to 14 descendents' suggestion in 1922. Its establishment was completed in nine years despite financial difficulties in middle course. His descendents' effort to honor the founder‘s achievements through identification of his birthplace and to preserve the historical site and their respect for and affection toward him are continuing at present.