This paper examines Changryeo Lee Jeong-gi’s <Oksan Gugok Poetry>. Oksan Gugok was the place in Yangdong village where Hoejae Lee Eon-jeok, a scholar in the 16th century, put his efforts into the moral philosophy. It was similar to that Dosan Gugok was run as Toegye’s studying place. As Gwangroe Lee Ya-soon, Hagye Lee Ga-soon, Hugye Lee Yi-soon, and others inherited sage Toegye’s spirit of landscape of nature by focusing on creating Dosan Gugok poems, Hoejae’s descendants, Changryeo Lee Jeong-gi, Namryeo Lee Jeong-uhm, Geumpa Lee Jeong-byeong and so on, tried to follow Hoejae’s ethics spirit. Hoejae was a Toegye’s senior by 10 years, and Toegye made great efforts to canonize Hoejae into the Confucian shrine. Toegye’s project to respect ancient sages affected his descendants, which led them to manage Dosan Gugok in the 19th century. However, there was no Gugok management in Oksan, Gyeongju, where Hoejae reverenced by Toegye dwelled in retirement. So, Changryeo Lee Jeong-gi, one of Hoejae’s descendants, came to establish Oksan Gugok following one of other Toegye’s descendants, Gwangroe Lee Ya-soon’s advice. It’s undeniable that Changryeo and Gwangroe’s management of Gugok was influenced by Zhu Xi’s Muee Gugok. Yet, rather than in the respect of geography, the category of Gugok included the place where a person’s trace was left even though its geography didn’t form a curve. That was because both of them put more stress on the spiritual aspect of Gugok management than its geographical aspect. As the value of a pond depends on whether a dragon dwells in it or not rather than on its meaning as a pond itself, not the geographical features of nature is important itself. Instead, a place holds its value several times and dozens times more according to who visited the place when. In addition, the spirit of succession that Changnyeo Lee Jeong-gi wanted to inherit the spirit of Hoejae Lee Eon-jeok was the goal and utopia of life that he wanted to pursue as a descendant. At the suggestion and recommendation of Lee Ya-soon, seven people jointly explored and consulted to determine Oksan Gugok. It is a very unusual and rare case when seven of the currently known old songs are agreed upon. After setting Oksan Gugok, it is not common for 15 people to write Gugoksi for a single Gugok called Oksan Gugok in about 30 years from Jo Ki-won(1752~1827) to Ha Beom-woon (1792~1858).
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