正祖 親撰 《八家手圈》의 編纂에 관한 小考

Abstract

Palga-sugwon is an abridgment book extracted from the Dangsong-paldaega-muncho: the Selected Works of Literary of Eight Masters in Tang and Ming Dynasty. King Jeongjo abstracted it by himself and categorized by writers. In this study, Palga-sugwon is compared with Palja-baekseon because it is not clear why King Jeongjo made them from the same origin in a similar way but in two different sets. As results of this study, it is discovered that the Palga-sugwon was compilated as a personal study tool for King Jeongjo himself to recite, which is different from the result of previous research, based on four reasons as follow. First, anthology and abridgment book have different functions especially if they were edited by King Jeongjo since he considered abstract and recitation as important ways of study. Anthology was made as a group of abstracts from the original book, but abridgment book was made for the recitation. Second, the King Jeongjo treated a performance of circle on a good text as a way of respect to Zhu Xi, and he deleted all of critic commentaries. Third, it is hard to find information of writer, title, writing style because they are written by small sized text on the Palga-sugwon. Also, there is no table of contents although a great volume. The construction of this book shows King Jeongjo did not consider other people as readers. Last, it turns out that there is the unique characteristic of Jeongjo’s abridgment by contrasting between chosen writings pieces of the Palga-sugwon and the criticism of commentaries from the Dangsong-paldaega- muncho. He chose the instructive ones which might be helpful for king, not for students. For these reasons, it is a necessary to reconsider the argument which said the Palga-sugwon and the Palja-baekseon have the same function and purpose just because they both were extracted from the Dangsong-paldaega-muncho. This research has an academic significance because it points out the clear difference between the Palga-sugwon and the Palja-baekseon by comparing them as anthology and abridgment book.