海東朱子 李滉의 和蘇詩

Abstract

During the middle Chosun dynasty while Yi Huang(李滉) was working, admiration for Su Shi(蘇軾) fell into decline with the appearance of Korean neo-Confucianists. During this period, not only Su Shi’s thought and scholarship was harshly criticized, but his literature was also criticized. But I found Yi Huang nevertheless liked and learned Su Shi’s works a lot and he even wrote some responding poems to Su Shi’s(和蘇詩). The aspects of Yi Huang’s responding poems to Su Shi’s are as below. First, he wrote some responding poems to Su Shi’s for emotional communication with Su Shi. Secondly, he wrote some responding poems to Su Shi’s to compare his poetic talent with Su Shi’s. Thirdly, he used Su Shi’s poems to keep company with his friends. Yi Huang, even praised as ‘Zhuzi of Chosun(海東朱子)’, nevertheless wrote some responding poems to Su Shi’s in such an atmosphere. It shows that Yi Huang accepted Su Shi’s literature without prejudice, apart from the ideological confrontation with Su Shi. And it means that Yi Huang was a man of tolerance and Su Shi’s influence was so great that it reached Korean neo-Confucianists who were in a confrontational relationship with Su Shi in the academic field.