尤菴 宋時烈이 撰書한 金石文의 現況

Abstract

One of the most primary source to study the thought and life of Song Si-Yeol(Woo-Am) is epigraph which Uam wrote or script by himself. As the generalization of Neo-Confucianism, the literati of Joseon Dynasty tried to practice the Family Ritual written by Chushi, a Philosopher of Sung China. In this course the epigraph such as gravestone prevailed. Uam wrote many works of gravestone and Song Jun-Gil(DongChun), his favorite friend, script most of them. In his collective work, the Great Writings of Master Song, there remained about 500 items. Because of the virtue and scholarship of Uam, many politician and scholars wanted to get memorial writings to their ancestors. Among them, sin-do-bi which was the gravestone for the high-grade(over 2-Poom) officer were 97 items and the other were general gravestones. About 20 items were opted in the Great Writings. These figures were mainly scattered in South Korea and a few in North Korea. While most of sin-do-bi and myo-gal(a gravestone without roof) were carved and established, myo-bi(a small gravestone) were not. The reason were the fall of the family, the economic difficulty of the family, and the change of party or school of the descendant. Around 1650 AD, the activated age of gravestone, the style and form were changed from the chinese one to the unique. In the case of sin-do-bi, isu(dragon-like carving) was changed into ga-chum-suk(roof-like carving), Gui-bo(turtle-like carving) into Nong-dae-suk(foundation stone). The script and carving of letters were also changed. The main title were written at the head of body of the stone Instead of isu. And the identification of myo-gal and myo-bi became ambiguous by using ga-chum-suk. Unfortunately, only 60% of the sin-do-bi and 20% of the myo-gal and myo-bi of Uam were recaptured in paper. The location of most of the myo-gal and myo-bi were not informed. That is the reason why we should start the fundamental research and survey urgently.