북경대 소장 ≪洪湛軒尺牘≫ 原文 및 校譯(Ⅲ)

Abstract

This is the third paper in a series of research courses that examine HongDamHeon Cheokdok(洪湛軒尺牘), kept in the Rare Books Collection of Peking University library, comparing four letters--from the 23rd to the 26th letter--with the domestic literary collection and translating it back into Korean. The four letters written by Hong Dae-yong in 1766 contain a number of sentences that reveal his academic thought, while writing down his feelings of missing three Qing Dynasty’s scholars, Yan Cheng(嚴誠), Pan TingJun(潘庭筠) and Lu Fei(陸飛) desperately. In the 23rd letter, he said that the purpose of reading books is to reveal the truth and deal with many things, so knowledge and practice must be combined. In the 24th letter, he referred to “Silhak(實學)” and further emphasized his academic attitude. In the 25th letter, he asked for the ultimate reason of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, referring to the famous words of several philosophers. Nine poems in the 26th letter were written by Hong Dae-yong to Yan Cheng in September 1766. Through a comparative study of this letter and Hong Dae-yong’s DamHeonSeo(湛軒書), I investigate they are an unknown poems not written in DamHeonSeo.