순천 초연정의 문화사적 의의 고찰

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to consider the cultural historic meaning of Choyeonjeong in Sunchon. Choyeonjeong is at the current Wangdae Village of Samchong-ri, Songgwang-myeon, Sunchon-si which is at the east of Mohu Mountain(母后山) rises at the boundary of Sunchon and Hwasun in Jeollanam-do Province. The whole area of Samchongdong(三淸洞), Mohu Mountain is a scenic beauty of the Cultural Heritage Administration called the ‘Garden of Choyeonjeong in Sunchon’. Choyeonjeong(趙濟亨)is a nu-jung built by Jin-choong Cho(趙鎭忠) in 1836 for the living in retirement and ancestral rites of Je-hyong Cho who lived five generations ago. The name, Choyeonjeong, was given by Yeonjae Byung-seon Song at the winter of 1890 by the arrangement of Jun-seop Cho who is a great-grandson of Jin-choong Cho. After that, Choyeonjeong becomes the place for academic lecturing admiring the ancestors by the future generations of Jin-choong Cho, and it also became the place to play together and for lecturing, and it had gugok culture by naming gugok in Samchongdong and creating gugok song. There is no other case of nu-jung in Sunchon area same as Choyeonjeong having cultural history. So, the three cultural historic meanings of Choyeonjeong are as follows. Firstly, memorizing the place of Okcheon Cho Clan. At first, the building of Cho-jung by Jin-choong Cho was originated by the practice of preserving and memorizing to perform ancestral rites for ancestor, Je-hyeong Cho. The descendants of Jin-choong Cho took the name of the pavilion and repaired to inherit the filial love and unfinished work of ancestor and also assured to inherit the virtue of the ancestor through the composed poem under a given theme or spoke the memorizing affection wishing the protection and infinity of the pavilion and traceable autographs of a departed wise people after repairing. However, Gyo-moon Lee evaluated that the descendants of Jin-choong Cho have the sincerity treating the devoted son as living. Secondly, it is playing together and lecturing at the Yeonjae school. Playing together and lecturing at Choyeonjeong in 1898 was not included in the annual report of 『Yeonjae collection』 and records of a deceased people's life, however, it was clearly a place of harmony that 70 writers of Yeonjae school at Bosung and Hwasoon centering Sunchon gathered. They planned the union of school, assured the way of gracious one strengthening 『Lesser Learning』, and intended to follow the way to go forward to the learning of Chu Hsi. It became the activity on Yeonjae school at Honam area in the latter part of the 19th century. Thirdly, it is the forming of gugok culture in Samchongdong. Joon-seop Cho, Jong-deok Cho, Joong-seop Cho, Tae-seung Cho, Chang-what Ahn, etc., formed Samchongdong gugok and wrote 6 poems of gugok song borrowing the rhyme of 「Muidoga」 and gugok name of Hwayanggugok to stand respecting China and Western barbarians consciousness under Japanese colonial era situation revealing a sense of respect to Chu Hsi and Wooam at the astounding Choyeonjeong. This artwork reveals landscape pleasure to speak the separation between reality and value orientation through heaven pursuing virtuous aspect or virtuous academic color such as cultivating the heart reminded by Cheolli Chechil or scriptures and natural scenery of the season. It is able to say that it is a place opening the page of gugok culture in Honam area.