This paper examines the literati group of China who Korean envoys met in the beginning and middle of the 19th century. From Jiaqing(嘉慶) period, the Chinese literati was remarkably tended to develop the network by holding poetry meeting. Starting f...
This paper examines the literati group of China who Korean envoys met in the beginning and middle of the 19th century. From Jiaqing(嘉慶) period, the Chinese literati was remarkably tended to develop the network by holding poetry meeting. Starting from Tao Shu(陶澍) and Wu Song-liang(吳嵩梁), the disciples of Weng Fang-gang(翁方綱), organized “XuannanShishe(宣南詩社)” in 1810s. Gong Zi-zhen(공自珍)·Wei Yuan(魏源)·Lin Ze-xu(林則徐), known as a statesman, participated in XuannanShishe, and they became to take charge of leading person in the field of scholarship and literature. After that, a new literati group was organized by Huang Jue-zi(黃爵滋) and Xu Bao-shan(徐寶善), who had connection with the member of XuannanShishe. They started to extend the scale by associating with the literati in Jiangnan(江南) region who stayed in Beijing for taking the Metropolitan examination(會試), and had a poetry meeting in taoranting(陶然亭). Among them, “JiangtingZhanxi(江亭展계)” in 1836 was the largest meeting. Many important people were included in JiangtingZhanxi, especially Huang Jue-zi as a main person, Xie Zhi-shen(葉志詵)·Wang Xi-xun(汪喜孫)·Li Zhang-yu(李璋煜)·Mei Zheng-liang(梅曾亮)·Chen Qing-yong(陳慶鏞) and etc. Member of JiangtingZhanxi put literary origin to Tong-cheng Group(桐城派) and highly appreciated Kao-zheng Scholarship(考證學). In the scholarly aspect, they supported governing thought, based on Chinese literature. The poetry meetings in taoranting had been continued for 10 years. During that period, Korean envoys who traveled in Beijing could associate with major people of JiangtingZhanxi. Korean envoys could understand the trend of Chinese literati in the progress of poetry reading and writing conversation with them. Literati of Korea and China could continue the scholarly and cultural exchanges while presenting their literary collection and writing a classic prologue and epilogue to each other. In this way, JiangtingZhanxi can be a key word to figure out the Korea-China literary exchange in the 19th century.