「용비어천도(龍飛御天圖)」에 대한 연구

Abstract

Yongbieocheondo(龍飛御天圖), made by Yang Seongji(梁誠之, 1415~482), is a picture illustrating Yongbieocheon-ga(龍飛御天歌) but doesn't remain today. Yang passed the state examination and participated in making Yongbieocheon-ga in the era of King Sejong. When he was responsible for teaching the crown prince in the second year of King Sejo's reign, he interpreted all the chapters of Yongbieocheon-ga by a picture with seven scopes and used it as education data for the prince. The seven scopes are ‘flourishing virtues(盛德)’·‘great credits(大功)’·‘works of preceding kings getting old(先世積累之久)’·‘foundation of the country(開國)’·‘getting hard to maintain the country by succeeding kings(後聖持守之難)’·‘Providence(天命)’ and ‘the support of the people(民心)’. While the first three are to praise preceding kings, the latter three are to advise succeeding kings. The original text of Yongbieocheon-ga was mostly composed of praisable contents and few of advice. But in Yongbieocheondo, advisory ones were expanded so that contents of praise and advice were equally included in. This interpretation of Yang regarding Yongbieocheon-ga is contrastive to that of royal family. Royal family reinforced the king's dignity by emphasizing praisable contents for preceding kings. On the contrary, Yang advised that succeeding kings should be always prudent to follow the good attitudes of preceding kings. In this manner, with regard to practical uses of Yongbieocheon-ga, furthermore those of Akjang(樂章), two directions of praise and advice were multifariously spreaded out according to political ideals or power relations. Yongbieocheondo is a important example that spoke for subjects' viewpoint of Akjang.