19~20세기 江右文人의 鄭蘊 인식 -某里 漢詩를 중심으로-

Abstract

This article was written under the ‘Geochang Gangdong Village’ project as a part of the research on the traditional scholar village in the Gangwoo region promoted by the Nammyonghak Study Institute, the Cultural Institute of Gyeongnam, Gyeongsang National University. Gangdong Village is the residence of the Chogye Jeong clan, represented by Donggye Jeong On (鄭蘊). Jeong On lived a very chaotic period in the history of Joseon, and his life was also an unusual tough one. His status in history was not light. He was a literary person of Naeam Jeong In-hong (鄭仁弘), the best disciple of Nammyun(南冥) Cho Sik (曺植), and was a representative of the academics of the Gangwoo region after the Injo coup. He was exiled to Jeju for 10 years due to the Injo coup, and he tried to commit suicide at the time of the Second Manchu invasion of Korea because he could not bear the humiliation, but was unsuccessful. Thereafter, he retired to the country and lived a secluded life in Mo-ri. After his death, younger scholars in the Gangwoo region revered his integrity spirit and built the Mo-ri hall in the place of his secluded life to represent his will. However, due to the Mushin Rebellion (1728), which was joined by his great-great grandson Jeong Hui-ryang (鄭希亮), both Jeong On and Mo-ri were forgotten from history. In the middle of the 19th century when more than 200 years passed, a large number of intellectuals suddenly came to Mo-ri to adore Jeong-on's fidelity, and leave behind many travelogues and Chinese poems. In the 19th and 20th centuries, literary persons in the Gangwoo region were alienated from central politics for a long time and existed as intellectuals out of power. In front of them, a period of national turmoil such as the Late Period of Chosun and the Japanese colonial period unfolded, and they had to fulfill their responsibilities and roles as intellectuals in the midst of chaos. The gap between the ideology of traditional Confucianism and the rapidly changing circumstances of the times gave a sense of helplessness to their use of life and attitudes, and as a result, they could not but express their resentment and anger at the reality that resulted in the national humiliation. At that time, Jeong On, a sage of old in the Gangwoo region, emerged as a symbol to present the way of life to the literary persons in the Gangwoo region, and during this time, numerous literary persons in the Gangwoo region could not but visit Mo-ri. It was an unusual case where a large number of people suddenly came to produce a lot of work, and surprisingly, the recognition of Jeong On projected in the Chinese poems written in Mo-ri during this period appeared almost consistently. In terms of the form, many of the Chinese poems were recited borrowing the rhythm of Jeong On’s poems written in Mo-ri and in terms of contents, the Chinese poems were expressed as those that recollected the life of Jeong On in his time and furthermore, as those that found the spirit of fidelity necessary in their time from him. This was a phenomenon that appeared commonly not only among literary persons in the Gangwoo region but also among all literary persons regardless of their regionalism and academic genealogy. Through the foregoing, it was possible to find the identity of the place of ‘Mo-ri’ as well as the recognition of Jeong On by the literary persons in the Gangwoo region in the 19th and 20th centuries.