『華陽九曲圖』 題畵詩文을 통해서 본 華陽九曲

Abstract

This study aims to illuminates the features and meanings of the nine valleys at Hwayang in the paintings and poems during the late Joseon, especially the album of Painting of the Nine Valleys at Hwayang painted by Yi Hyeongbu and inscribed by Song Dalsu. Hwayang valley is beautiful scenery site of the Chungchung province in Southern Korea and a famous place where Song Siyeol, the great scholar known as Korean Zuxi, stayed. This study tried to interpretate the written documents such as inscription by Yi Hyengbu on his painting of the nine valleys at Hwayang, inscribed poems by Song Dalsu on the painting, carved letters on rocks in the painting, and the poems in Hansansego which is the anthology of literary works by Yi Hyengbu, and could reach several significant conclusions. One is understanding hidden meanings of the nine names for the nine valleys at Hwayang because many studies before had overlooked the names. The most important one is that Yi Hyengbu’s painting of the valleys is not only the description of the scenery but also reflective of the ideas Song Siyeol insisted. In the other words, Yi Hyengbu painted the valleys in order to show the combination of Song Siyeol’s ideal theory and the natural scenery of Hwayang valley. Furthermore, this study discovered the actual process in which Yi Hyengbu’s paintings and Song Dalsu’s poems became an album. Yi Hyengbu painted it in 1809, Song Dalsu wrote down his poem on the painting in 1844, and Song Lakheon who is the grandson of Song Dalsu mounted this album in 1924. It would be said that the process of making this album, Painting of the Nine Valleys at Hwayang, for a long time revealed continuous efforts to realize Song Siyeol’s ideas.