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Ways of Accepting the Collection of Master Zhu’s Works in Korea

Chaegi Choi 1

1한국고전번역원

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ABSTRACT

Neo-Confucianism integrated by master Zhu was introduced in Korea at the end of 13th century and dominated the whole study in Korea for about 500 years of Chosun Dynasty. Accordingly, Zhuzidaquan(朱子大全), another collection of master Zhu’s works, was brought in with other Neo-Confucian books. Since 1543 when it was first published by Kim Angook(金安國), Zhuzidaquan was issued four times from Gyoseogwan(校書館) and Jeonju(全州), which was led by Ryu Huichoon(柳希春, 1575), Won Dupyo(元斗杓, 1635), and Hong Gyehi(洪啓禧, 1771). After the publication of Zhuzidaquan, Lee Hwang(李滉) compiled academically important letters selected from 121 volumes of poetry and prose, which was called Jujaseojulyo(朱子書節要) and published 10 times by scholarly friends and younger students. This affected other Neo-confucianists of later generations and they published many kinds of selections, anthologies of master Zhu’s letters as well as other poetry and prose. The original Zhuzidaquan was not perfect that there were a lot of missing parts and wrong spellings so before Zhuzidaquan and Jujaseojulyo were published in Korea, Lee Hwang, Ryu Huichoon, and Hong Gyehi looked into the originals closely and made corrections on them. Lee Hwang and his coming generations had master Zhu’s works understood more clearly and deeply, by annotating them in detail. Furthermore, master Zhu’s posthumous works of poetry and prose and appendix were added in Hong Gyehi’s edition(1771) of Zhuzidaquan. As seen from the above, Korea made a primer on Neo-confucianism by selecting from, correcting, annotating, or adding to, master Zhu’s works.

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