In this paper, I am going to investigate the sources of the subject matters of Daekwanjaekimong. It is a meaningful work to understand the characteristic of Kimong and the way to write. My inquiry proves some facts as follow. There are four sources w...
In this paper, I am going to investigate the sources of the subject matters of Daekwanjaekimong. It is a meaningful work to understand the characteristic of Kimong and the way to write. My inquiry proves some facts as follow. There are four sources which occupy the essential positions in Kimong -Yelja(列子), Jangsokakhokibu(長嘯却胡騎賦), poetics in Song(宋) Dynasty and Seongkyunkwanhee(成均館戱). Yelja is the source of the imagination. Yelja provides the author with the fantastic atmosphere and the way to explain his dream in Kimong, what is more, some phrases of Kimong are very similar to those of Yelja. The whistle motif of Kimong is so impressive and it might be regarded as the highest reach of the imaginative power. Jangsokakhokibu is the source of the whistle motif. There are a lot of poetics in Kimong, which were written in the age of Song Dynasty. The author uses poetics in Song Dynasty to stand on his opinion about the way to write a poet. In Kimong, the author grades the literary persons of many generations in the Korean Peninsula. In the Joseon(朝鮮) Dynasty period the students of Seongkyunkwan, the national university, played the game of Seongkyunkwanhee. This game is that the students form the imaginary royal court in which Confucius is the emperor and his disciples are the feudal lords. The grading is the modification of Seongkyunkwanhee.