최치원의 유풍이 호남에 끼친 사상적 영향의 고찰－태인의 이은吏隱과 옥구의 유선遊仙을 중심으로

Abstract

Choi Chiwon was an international intellectual who lived through a period of rapid change in the ancient East Asian world. He had a literary reputation in Tang and Silla Dynasty and had a great philosophical influence on later generations. Honam was also influenced by him early on, and his philosophical and cultural traditions continued for a long time, centering on the Taein and the west coast of Okgu. In the two regions, Choi Chi-won was remembered as a Confucian hermit or a mysterious hermit, and he gained national fame as there were shrines and monumental sanctuaries commemorating him from the Goryeo Dynasty. Although Choi Chiwon was a Confucian scholar, he was already talked about during the Goryeo Dynasty as a person who sought the Tao of Sinseon. It was not just the reputation of later generations, but the path Choi Chi-won himself actually pursued. Choi Chiwon lamented that he had met dangerous and vicious days since he was young, and even if he could not abandon his responsibility as a Confucian in saving the world, he confessed that his intention was always to escape the world and to remain secluded. Choi Chiwon has always called the Silla Dynasty the home of sinseons and was proud that there were many outstanding sinseons from ancient times. The fact that he secluded himself in Honam and played freely in forests and rivers in his later years and finally entered the mountain was the process of actively realizing the aspirations of seclusion he had harbored since his youth. His philosophical ethos had a direct impact on Honam, and Choi Chiwon was revered as a secluded and free person even while in office. In addition, the coast of the West Sea centered on the Gogunsan Islands has been the starting point and stopover of the sea route connecting the Korean Peninsula and the Asian continent since ancient times. Choi Chiwon has been mythologized as a person who symbolizes cultural exchanges along this sea route for over a thousand years.