文益成 가문의 학파적 전통과 忠君･尊周의식의 계승

Abstract

This writer, being interested in the history of each family concerned with Nammyeong(南冥) school, looked over the achievements that Mun-Ikseong(文益成), a Nammyeong Cho-shik(曺植)'s follower, and his descendents left then. Mun-Ikseong who dwelled in Habcheon(陜川) passed the higher civil examination and filled various government posts. His son Mun-Ryeo(文勵) also passed the higher civil examination and filled important government posts, and the other son Mun-Hal(文劼) passed the minor civil examination. Two brothers raised the loyal armies in Imjinweran(1592 war). Their brotherliness was very profound each other and the sons were devoted to their parents. Because of these activities their family was situated as the family that was by no means inferior to other sajok families in Kyeongsangwudo(慶尙右道). Thereafter Mun-Hal's descendents who settled in Jinju also upheld the traditions of the sajok family and made their family very prestigious. They upheld the strain of Nammyeong school to succeed their forefathers' learning tradition, and kept to Namin in a swirl of the political changes in the late Chosun dynasty. In common with other families, they upheld the Jonju(尊周) sentiment(venerating sentiment for China) to succeed Chinise culture instead of perished Myeong(明) cleverly. In particular, they put it in practice by shielding and handing down the Daemyeonghwa(大明花) which was inherited in their family.