省齋 柳重敎의 書社儀節 考察

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine Seongjae(省齋) Ryu Jung-gyo(柳重敎)’s Seosa(書社) Euijeol(儀節). Ryu Jung-gyo(柳重敎) was a scholar who tried to keep our traditional scholarship by founding a private school or Seosa(書社) in the 19h century when this country faced a mountainous wave of foreign cultures. Education at that school had two ways, Kanggyeong(講經) and Seuprye(習禮) that Ryu Jung-gyo(柳重敎) stressed students to thoroughly follow. Kanggyeong(講經), which means learning and discussing Chinese classics, consisted of two events, Sungang(旬講) and Samaengsak(四孟朔) in both of which meanings of such classical writings were identified and analyzed in even more detail and, thereon, problems with the times were found out. In Kanggyeong(講經), especially, there were two classical paragraphs that scholars were requested to learn about most urgently. They were ‘clear discrimination[明辨] and purity with a sense of shame[廉恥]. In Seupyre(習禮), the emphasis was that scholars should master a variety of ritual manners or euijeol(儀節) enough in advance. To make the mastering easy and simple, Seosa(書社) created and used some means, for instance, a wooden block on which a traditional house is drawn and a paper on which a place where euijeol(儀節) is performed is outlined. Through education at Seosa(書社), Ryu Jung-gyo(柳重敎) sought to keep our traditional scholarship and culture and thoroughly exclude Western ones.