운사(雲沙) 여창현(呂昌鉉)과 <운사유고> ― 20세기 노사학파 재전문인의 한 초상 ―

Abstract

Woonsa Yeo Chang-hyeon is from Gokseong, Jeollanam-do and is a re-expert in the Nosa School. He was born at the end of the 19th century and died in the middle and late 20th century. Yeo Chang-hyeon was one of the ‘20th-century Honam Confucian scholars belonging to the second generation disciple of the Nosa school. This article provides an overview of Yeo Chang-hyeon's life, thoughts, and activities, focusing on his 『Woonsayugo(雲沙遺稿)』. As a member of the Nosa School and a Honam Confucian scholar in the 20th century, he demonstrated several activities. First, he played the role of organizing and preserving the literary works and various compilations of local seniors, including those of the Nosa School. Second, amid the historical transition in which Confucianism lost its status as a public discipline, efforts were made to create and maintain various private communities to maintain and preserve local Confucian traditions. He played the role of the founder and early leader of the Pungyeonggye, and tried to instill Confucian values ​​in them by organizing and maintaining various gatherings. Lastly, throughout his life, he continued his efforts to raise readers like himself. As the successor and preserver of Confucian values ​​that were declining in the process of rapid modernization, his efforts show two characteristic aspects. It shows the specific aspects of a person who can be called a Honam Confucian scholar in the 20th century. At the same time, it shows what kind of thoughts and activities the identity of the Noh-Sa School from the 19th century to the 20th century was contained in. It also reminds us of the following passage that Ki Jeong-jin(奇正鎭) once said to his disciple: “We will have to make sure that there is an uninterrupted stream of seeds so that we can launch the ship again in a port where the shipping route has been cut off.” As a scholar of reading in the Honam region, Yeo Chang-hyeon's hopes that the golden age of Confucianism would return were frustrated, but he did not give up the arduous lifestyle of trying to reconnect with a broken port.