사계(沙溪)의 경서변의(經書辨疑) 연구 - 소학(小學)을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to determining and examining literary errors such as typo and interpretation raised by Sakye(沙溪) Kim Jang-saeng(金長生, 1548~1631) in his 『Interpretation on Confucian Classics(經書辨疑)』 by dividing and examining the problems raised into individual word, phrase, and paragraph. Sakye was deeply interested in acedemics and less interested in poetry. This is evident as among 51 books in 『Collected Works of Sakye(沙溪全書)』, 32 books(about 60%) are written on academic writings. Among them, 『Interpretation on Confucian Classics(經書辨疑)』 is an important academic writing that broadens his academic scope of 『Confucian Classics』 in that he has dealth with several documents of including 『Sohak(小學)』. In his <Interpretation on Sohak(小學辨疑)>, Sakye raises literary issues such as error in typography and possible misunderstanding of texts and provides his answers. The narrates by listing problematic issues according to original text’s table of content, and his purpose was largely to point out errors in existing readings to pursue precise meaning of the text. This is the precisely why he focuses heavily on understanding the true meaning of each clauses of original texts. Understand the true meaning is the basis of correctly interpreting 『Sohak(小學)』 and 『Confucian Classics』, and therefore is as important as systemizing the documents. Due to such precise understanding, King Yeongjo’s edition of 『Translated Sohak(小學)』 was introduced and this translation is being used up to now. This paper successfully uncovered very important facts. We discovered that Sakye’s “Interpretation of Sohak” might be the source of King Yeongjo’s edition of 『Translated Sohak』, Recording book name 『Yeki(禮記)』 is correlated the contents of book, meaning of character “Cheo(處)” was pursued separately for differenct intonation, and much more. There is much more to be uncovered and therefore continuously research and study is required. This paper is limited to 『Sohak(小學)』, but we look forward to seeing detailed effort of tracking precise meanings for interpretation of other Confucian Classics as well.