高麗大學校所藏燕行文獻≪華簡≫淺考

Abstract

Hwagan(華簡) is a collection of original documents compiled with three parts--the calligraphy, the letter and the conversations by writing. The first part is the two calligraphies of Haineizhiji(海内知己) and Sihaibilin(四海比邻) that a Qing Dynasty’s scholar presents to Choson Dynasty’s envoy, Pak Hongyang(朴弘陽). The second part is the thirty-five letters that five Qing Dynasty’s scholars--Guan Yi'e(管貽萼), Cheng Gongshou(程恭壽), Wang Zhongxi(汪重熙), Wen Zhongyan(溫忠彥), Wen Zhongshan(溫忠善), and Sun Qi(孫楫) sent to Pak Hongyang(朴弘陽) from Xianfeng five years (1855) to Xianfeng nine years (1859). The third part is the conversations by writing between Pak Hongyang and several Qing Dynasty’s scholars on January, Xianfeng five years (1855). In my previous studies, I had already introduced the original text and translation texts through a decoding of the all of Hwagan. During this process, my studies discovered that there have been profound friendship and frank communication among the scholars of two countries. They also found that there were thirty poems that were written in an extraordinary style. In addition, they also obtained some information about the birth and death year of Qing Dynasty’s scholars, noms de plume, their office positions and other research materials. As there is no other historical materials on this envoy in Xianfeng five years (1855), I believe that Hwagan is a historical record of academic value. However, as time goes by, their friendly intercourse and communications were gradually disappeared in the corner of history. Besides, their letters were inherited for a hundred and fifty years, and they have long been moulded and worm-eaten. Finally, I hope that my present paper would supplement the existing literatures and historical relics of the mid-19th century’s envoy, which can draw Korean and Chinese scholars’ particular attention for their academic value and make further research.