이복휴의 '해동악부'에 나타난 신라사와 관련된 몇가지 견해들 - ‘史評’을 중심으로 - = temp

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Yi Bok-hyu(李福休) is a historical character who served as a governmental officer in the era of King Yeongjo and King Jeongjo, and left a huge collection titled “Hannamjip(漢南 集)”(20 volumes and 11 books) and Haedong Akbu(海東樂府; containing 260 pieces of poem).
Typically, Jeongsa Akbu(詠史樂府: Chinese poetry chanting past history) consists of historical stories for fact delineation and verse-like main body as well. Incidentally, Yi's Haedong Akbu is characterized by historical comments attached to the historical stories and main body. Based on the historical comments, this study discussed some contents of Yi's Haedong Akbu in special associations with the history of Silla dynasty.
For mysterious and strange things of the ancient history in myths and legends intertwined with each other, our contemporary historical worlds have sought to interpret them through parables and symbols. However, Yi failed to go beyond two-dimensional comprehensions through literally reading mysterious things of ancient history. So he commented them as fabulously nonsensical, but addressed them as one of subject matters for his Haedong Akbu. Of course, the reasons why these mysterious things are recorded and handed down, as Yi quoted, were attributed to ignorance of human awareness in ancient days, misunderstanding and miscommunication, intentional mystification for divinization, references in addendum handed down by historians and more.
But Yi revealed his view that if even mysterious things resulted from effects of dead person's soul and energy, they may be based sufficiently on facts. For example, he suggested that rancored ghost or indignant soul, if dead accidentally, tramp across heaven and earth without scattering its energy. In particular, he thought that the spirit of loyal subjects and martyrs is influential enough to survive even after their death and play their unfinished roles in this world.
Yi showed very critical views on Buddhism and queen, which reflected his stubbornness as Confucian scholar. For Hwarang(an elite youth corps of Silla dynasty), Yi also showed very negative perspectives on it within narrow framework of talents appointment. From his standpoint, regicide was never condonable felony. He suggested that although a king was outrageous enough for tyranny against people, any regicide must be sentenced to death. This is in the same context with his another viewpoint reflected in his other literatures such as Non(論) and So(疏) in Hannam- jip, which pointed out disorder of social standing system as biggest social issue in his contemporary era(late 18th century) in direct association with problems of national regime and public order.
Yi quoted the extravagance of Buddhism and royal family as fundamental reason of Baekjae dynasty's collapse. And he pointed out public consensus alienated from government as the common reason why both Baekjae and Koguryeo dynasty collapsed. On the contrary, Yi suggested that Silla dynasty attained successful unification of the Three States due to loyalty to king, willingness to die for senior leadership, profuse compensations for military merits, Silla's conventions of forces allied with neighbor country, and Silla's geographical advantages.
Yi's standpoints about Silla-Tang allied military treaty suggested consistently that “Tang was enticed and deceived by Silla.” Furthermore, in his some historical comments of ‘Salsutan(薩水歎; chanting Cheongcheon River),’ Yi delineated historical cases of Chinese invasion upon Korean peninsular which resulted in former's downhill of national power or ruin. Thus, he came to a conclusion that after strategic invasion upon Korean peninsular, China faced more misfortunes rather than fortunes from the ancient era on.
Yi's basic senses reflected throughout “Haedong Akbu” indicate obduracy as Confucian scholar.
Nevertheless, his frequent comments on national rise and fall and the victor or defeat of war allow us feel h...