A Study Of Landscape Travel Prose In The Mid Joseon Dynasty

From the perspective of East Asia to examine the ancient Korean landscape travel prose and connection to China is domestic academic research blank, is also a promising field.under the influence of chinese ancient landscape travel prose,South Korea’s ancient landscape travel prose occurred and developed, but it is not completely copy the China landscape travel prose. South Korea’s ancient landscape travel prose has its own literary spirit and the traditional theory of landscape. The ancient Korean landscape prose occurred in Koryo Dynasty, its works is less, but the effect is larger. In the early period of Joseon Dynasty, the ancient Korean landscape travel prose began to establish their own independent status of style and character, and to the mid Joseon Dynasty, ancient Korean landscape travel prose is really mature, and the works of quality, quantity and theory have been greatly developed, and emerged many writers of landscape travel prose, such as Li Tinggui、Shen Yisheng、jin zhi、Jin Shangxian、Li Minghan、 Li Jingshi、Li Mingjun etc.The achievements of landscape travel notes prose of the mid Korean Dynasty is closely releted with the special times and political background. Firstly, national consciousness and spiritual awakened, and the national language created by Joseon Sejong is a performance of the awakening of national consciousness.At the same time, the literati of the mid Joseon Dynasty was greatly impacted by Wan Li’Korean War in the Ming Dynasty and Bingzi’Korean War in the Qing Dynasty in psychological and spiritual,and they began to consciously looking for the development direction of country and nation, and stimulate and promote the uplift of national consciousness furtherly, and express national pride and a sense of patriotism by means of writing the motherland beautiful landscape. In addition, many literati rejected the cumbersome personnel and public affairs because of The intensified political struggle, and escape to the landscape. so far as to some scholars exiled to remote places because of faile in the political struggle, and the local beautiful scenery was written by these scholars. the rising of consciousness of landscape and travel prose consciousness also makes some literati to China not confined to express China’or the domestic landscape by poetry, but began to consciously describe and its domestic and China’s beautiful landscape by landscape travel prose, which not only enrich the style, but also expanded Description scope of the ancient Korean landscape travel prose, and promote development of the ancient Korean landscape travel prose. of course, Landscape travel prose of the mid Joseon Dynasty also focused and descripted mount Kumgang, which is not only because of the beautiful scenery of the mount Kumgang, but also because of its contains rich national history and culture. so in the period, The quantity of landscape travel prose of descripting and expressing Mount Kumgang is the most representative.The theory of landscape travel prose in the mid Joseon Dynasty has made a breakthrough. During this period, The theory of landscape travel prose not only learned from advantages of Chinese related theories, such as Confucian landscape thought, Liu Xie’s "country aid" view, but also inherited the national spirit of the landscape tradition and theoretical, and enriched and perfected the theory, especially riched the "travel and entertainment landscape" spirit from the Hwarang, and promoted the behavior of visiting landscape and the creation of landscape travel prose in the mid Joseon Dynasty. At the same time, many scholars also constantly sum up experience in the process of creation, and formed the simple theory concept landscape travel prose which had the national characteristics, such as, "natural, deep wit" point of view deepen the relationship between human and landscape, and liberated landscape from pure object, achieved the combination between people and landscape and spirit of the literati’s indulgence. This view is clearly rooted in the "romantic spirit" of ancient Korean nation, and deepen and transcend the spirit. Another example is the "eye-catching and environment, to touch the heart and have fun", The example is not simply describes the corresponding relationship between human and landscape, its main purpose is to explain the intrinsic connection between "heart", "Jing" and "interest" in the landscape travel prose, which is explained by the literati of the mid Joseon Dynasty have their own point for the landscape travel prose, which is different to the Chinese literati. Although The landscape travel prose of the mid Joseon Dynasty has not formed its own theory system, but this theoretical concepts and understanding of national characteristics influence the relationship between the literati and landscape in the mid Joseon Dynasty, and affected or improved the creation of landscape travel prose in the mid Joseon Dynasty.Of course, landscape travel prose in the mid Joseon Dynasty was influenced by Chinese literature, and this effect is mainly reflected in three aspects:the first is the influence of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism; the Second is the influence of landscape travel prose theory; Third is the influence of creative skills. In the mid Joseon Dynasty, the influence of Confucianism and Buddhism was deepen in landscape travel prose, but it is different from"Chong Ru suppression of Buddha" of the early period of Joseon Dynasty, Confucianism and Buddhism co-exist in the landscape travel prose, and achieve the aim of " in the field" through debating each other. Chinese ancient writers and their works of landscape travel prose has great influence in the mid Joseon Dynasty, and the influence not only reflected in reference to a writer or borrow his words, but also reflected by the creation of landscape travel prose through using specific mental or creative skills and methods of Chinese ancient writers.At the same time, Chinese landscape travel prose is no longer limited to a few writers, but many writers of the long-term, lasting impact in many dynasties, and including Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Su Shi, Zhu Xi, Lu, Yuan Hongdao and so on. Namely, Chinese landscape travel prose not only influenced the understanding of landscape travel prose and creative methods of the literati in the mid Joseon Dynasty, but also promoted the mature of landscape travel prose in the mid Joseon Dynasty.Under the comprehensive effect, the ancient South Korea landscape travel prose was mature in the mid Joseon Dynasty, while mature means has its own independent style and aesthetic consciousness, landscape travel prose in the mid Joseon Dynastyhas a variety of aesthetic consciousness, including population regression of consciousness and emotional gap compensation awareness, sense of patriotism and national consciousness, close to natural landscape of emotional awareness and the sense of identity of culture between China and South Korea. At the same time, under the tranquil and natural style in general, landscape travel prose in the mid Joseon Dynastyhas also has multiple feature of Urgent style, Gloomy style, Brisk style.