退溪詩作中呈現的中華印象考

Abstract

As a great Confucian scholar, Yi Hwang is also an outstanding poet. He left more than 2,000 poems in his life, with various styles, different lengths, rich themes, skilled techniques, and a lot of dictionaries, which have great research value. Based on the analysis of its relationship with Chinese classics and the Chinese elements in the spiritual world, this paper selects 23 representative poems written in the middle-aged period for analysis, and finds the extensiveness of the Chinese classics that Yi Hwang read in his life, and also the Chinese factor in the spiritual world constructed on this reading basis. In addition to the well-known Confucian classics, Yi Hwang also dabbled in the history section represented by Records of the Grand Historian, Book of Han, Book of Jin, etc., scholar section represented by Zhuang Zhou and A New Account of the Tales of the World, literature section represented by the poetry collections of many famous poets from Tang dynasty, Song dynasty to Ming dynasty. The Chorography of Lin’an During Xianchun Era and The Chorography of Wuyi are included, too. Based on reading this huge Chinese scriptures, Chinese factors such as ‘Yangtze River’, ‘White Lotus Society’, ‘Shu Road’, Du Mu, Xiahouxuan, Fan Ji all naturally entered his poems, which are called some symbols of his spiritual world, and also presented his impression of China for later generations.