太平廣記의 한국 傳來와 影響

Abstract

Tai Ping Guang Ji, a set of books in 500 volume, were published in August, A.D.977, which was then the 2nd year of TaiZong's regime in Chinese Song dynasty. The books were published under the editorial administration of Li Fang, and is one of representative classic literature works in China, which collected the ancient Chinese tales and stories till the begging of Song dynasty. After publishing, it has been widely spread and read by literary men and ordinary merchants as well. During that time, as an envoy from Koryŏ dynasty, Park In-yang, who visited North Song several times, might had read this set of books. It might not be difficult for him to get a set of the books from his friends in China(Song). From the letters and poems he sent to Chang Zhong, a famous Chinese scholar of that time, we also can see that he had already read these books and know about the content well enough even in Koryŏ. During that period, culture and documents exchanges between Song and Koryŏ dynasties were quite popular, and many Koryŏ envoys could contact with Song's literary men directly when they visited Song. So it can be estimated that this set of books might have been introduced to Korea before A.D.1080. The Koryŏ mighty have accept the set of works quite actively, and it might not only interested Koryŏ readers quite well, but also became a kinds of stimulations for Korea writers. The introduction of Tai Ping Guang Ji to Koryŏ might have greatly affected the legendary literature of Koryŏ and it also used to be a good resource for Koryŏ writers on their work. Tai Ping Guang Ji not only affected ancient Korean literature on saga novels and personification novels, but also on lawsuit literature. On the basis of such a situation, we can see that Korean ancient literature were so developed that some of Korean lawsuit literatures were even superior to that of Tai Ping Guang Ji.