영조 어제에 나타난 <시경(詩經)> 독서의 양상과 의미

Abstract

Many of around 5,400 literary works written by King Yeongjo were related to his reading of poems in Shijing or the Book of Odes such as “Yuga(or Liao‒e)”, “Bipung(or Feifeng)”, “Hacheon(or Xiaquan)”, “Sangche(or Changdui)”, and “Cheokho(or Zhihu)” to which he payed particularly attention. King Yeongjo in his old age appreciated the works of Shijing more specially than before while he looked back upon the memory of his late parents and brother(King Gyeongjong) and reminded himself of loyalty to the Ming China which had been came to the ground. Based on King Yeongjo’s serious reading and recitation of the Shijing poems, his writings were led to creating a new style of sequel developed from the original Shijing works. Through this new style, King Yeongjo internalized the meaning of the Shijing works and eventually identified himself with poetic narrators appearing in the Shijing text. The Shijing works that King Yeongjo enjoyed had been conventionally regarded as representing one virtue among loyalty, filial piety, and brotherliness. King Yeongjo, however, often showed two or three virtues at the same time in a work that was written based on reading a single poem in Shijing. King Yeongjo’s reading of the Shijing works had ritual functions. When King Yeongjo in his old age could not attend at royal rites to pay respects to his late parents and brother and ruminate over loyalty to Ming China, he often read the Shijing poems that reminded himself of loyalty, filial piety, and brotherliness. His reading of Shijing also functioned as ritually when he shared his political idea with others. He asked his courtiers to write literary works after their reading of the poems in Shijing as he did so and bestowed a copy of his writing on impression of the Shijing works to his grandson, the successor to the throne, to show them what he learned from the reading of Shijing.