유교적 성왕(聖王)으로 변용되는 세계의 개척자- 禹의 변화 양상을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Pre-Qin texts associated ancient Chinese thoughts with history in an inseparable way. In particular, Confucian texts extolled ancient Chinese history. Shangshu (尙書), ‘Confucius edited,’ conveys the later people to exaltation ancient Chinese history which delineates matter-of-fact moral history. Furthermore, The people regarded Shangshu as a moral epitome and discovered principles in the text with which they resolved moral issues. However, the excavated texts reveal the historical state and king to differentiate from the popular legendary portrayals of the state and the king in Shangshu. For this reason, from the Confucian perspective this article trails the intellectual tendency in which Yu (禹) has been lionized and transformed from a pioneer who cultivated the primitive world to a sage king from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the later period, and finds out how the Confucian sage kings were portrayed and how their lineage was presented, Yao (堯), Shun (舜), and Yu (禹) in particular. I believe that this article, which examines the king from the Confucian perspective, will add to something new that contributes to proving the image of the Confucian sage king who has been eulogized to the extent to be the legendary figure was formed over a long philosophical debate.