심석재(心石齋) 송병순(宋秉珣)의 회강(會講)⋅강학(講學) 활동

Abstract

Shimseokjae Song Byeong-soon who acted from the Late 19th century to the early 20th century was the 9th generation descendant of Song Si-yeol(宋時烈) and was a Great Confucian scholar who established and shared Yeonjae School with his brother Yeonjae(淵齋) Song Byeong-seon(宋秉璿). He was also a typical non-government Confucian scholar who gave up the state examination(科擧) early and devoted himself to scholastic research, writing and educational activities to become a sage in his whole life. Being shocked by the order to close Mandongmyo Shrine(萬東廟) that the Confucian moral philosophy of Song Si-yeol he wanted to identify, Song Byeong-seon started to find a new path of life. Staying in Osan(梧山) for about 16 years, Song Byeong-soon enjoyed a life in seclusion represented by reading, writing and educational activities, which takes on a nature of preliminary experiment of self-comfortism(自靖路線) he initiated through the management at Hwalsan(活山) later. After “settling down in Hwalsan, Okcheon(沃川) with scriptures in 1883 (age of 45), Song Byeong-soon executed self-comfortism until the time he performed sunui(殉義: Dying in defense of one’s chastity) at Hwalsanjeongsa (活山精舍) when he was 74. Song Byeong-soon wanted to promote efficiency of learning(爲學) and confucian self-realization, and realize his wish at educational⋅philosophical⋅apologetic level to protect and develop the world of confucian truth[吾道] especially through lecturing(會講) and educational activities in the state of crisis. During the process, he also demonstrated an aspect of an educator who showed intellectual literacy he accumulated through hard research of the studies of ChengZhu and U-am he concentrated many years. Sunui he volunteered against the Japanese Empire in 1912 means a great conclusion(大結局) that reading, lecturing, educational and writing activities he carried forward was concluded in the name of the theory of Confucian moral philosophy.