규장각 소장 희귀본 미상자료 『分金法』에 대한 연구 -「輪圖」와 짝을 이루는 설명서일 가능성을 중심으로 -

Abstract

A regional culture consists of the existed and the flowed in. Korea feng-shui is a part of Korean culture. Korea feng-shui was formed by China feng-shui and an existed empirical science for keeping a human life from theenvironmental threats. This study is about Korea feng-shui compass as a part of feng-shui. Feng-shui compass is necessary for judging house and tomb’s fortune with a measured orientation of them. In the center of feng-shui compass, there is a needle indicating south-north direction , and there are a lot of the concentric circles. The feng-shui compasses have different structural system of the concentric circle layer by region and school. The distinction in a structural system of the concentric circle layers means that the main and emphasizing orientation methods for each school are different. Korea feng-shui’s representative compass is called as Yundo(輪圖). In the contents of Yundo, there are a lot of Chinese pattern, but it is different in schedule and contents of the concentric circle layers and in the deciding method of fortune. The manual about Yundo is needed to inquire the difference in the form and contents. The subject of this study, an unknown authorship 『Bungeombub(分金法)』 is just a manual of Yundo and it was discovered for the first time by this research. In the result of this study, it is discovered that this manual was originally made in 1579. Therefore, we can conclude that the original version of Yundo must have been made at the same time when its manual Bungeombub was made. The date of Yundo’s production was moved to 1579 from 1848, which is nearly 270 years earlier. We can insist that Yundo and Bungeombub are a pair of drawing[圖] and writing[書] by the following several causes through this study. Firstly, the word Yundo[圖] and Bungeombub[書] are appeared in the same period of Dynasty, and have a related meaning. Secondly, the last concentric circle in Yundo and Bungeombub is finished with 24 layers. Thirdly, the names and explanations for each concentric circle layers in Yundo and Bungeombub are in accordance with each other. Lastly, there are explanations in bubgeombub about Yundo. Until now, China feng-shui compass which has similar shape like Korea Yundo is not yet discovered. That’s why Korea Yundo can be said that it has a Korea feng-shui’s identity, though it was made with the influence of China. Both of Yundo and Bungeombub are the valuable materials for inquiring difference between Korea feng-shui and China feng-shui.