蘇軾의 流配詩에 나타난 도가적 사유

Abstract

The Study is Su Shi lived during the Song Dynasty, and this era of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism had an ideological background where Buddhism and Taoism shared their strengths and weaknesses under the traditional Confucian ethics. For this reason, most intellectuals could learn Buddhist and Taoist ideologies as liberal arts or academic studies without restrictions. Su Shi is one of the practical intellectuals who were faithful to Confucian ethics while utilizing Buddhist and Taoist ideologies as a means to train ego and overcome reality. Besides literature, Su Shi encouraged to reckon his mental world and humane dignity at the same time. Su Shi was a representative poet in the history of Chinese literature and one of the eight great writers of the Tang and Song Dynasties. He showed diverse strokes throughout all literary genres, including poetry, essay, ode, and prose. He also exhibited creative talents in calligraphy and painting. In terms of ideology, he pioneered a recondite stage of habituating the Laozi philosophy while embracing Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. He wanted to return and become one body with nature. He aloof from the worldly values and enjoyed daily leisure despite the poverty and solitude of the exile places. The purpose of this study was to shed new light on the mental world of Su Shi practicing Taoist ideology in his poems and life in the exile places by examining Taoistic characteristics found in poems written in the exile places. While leaving academic and artistic writings in exile places, Su Shi moved the stage of reasoning to the imaginary world and dreamed of a surreal utopia distant from the human world. Furthermore, he enjoyed unworldly peace by breaking away from the shabby reality by pursuing a fundamental and ultimate world and communicating with the universe. The Taoist ideology, which follows the circulatory nature of the universe, provides a methodological text. He gave way to comfort in everyday life by controlling the anguish of complex reality through philosophical view and inner training.