"Rehe Diary" Research

Friendly exchanges between China and the Korean peninsula from generation to generation created a number of Yonhaengnok literature, and Jehol Diary is one of the most outstanding masterpiece which was written by Korean’s real learning thinker Pak Chi-won. Pak went wih a Korean delegation to China to celebarate Emperor Qian Long1s70th birthday, then he wrote a dairy style Travel note-Jehol Diary after returning home. This book is called real learning Britannica. Pak observed and recorded Qing dynasty’s political, economic, institutional, cultural and folk, which among them there were a lot of insights on the system of Chinese antiquities and history books. The Jehol Diary started slowly as if a painting showed Qing dynasty’s social outlook in18th Century. The book was profound reflection with critical awareness of the reality of the Korean’s reality, and presented practical reform measures against Korean. The dissertation, using empirical method, reviewed data analysis and textual research, examined Jehol Diary in politics, culture and history of the development of the prose background. Starting from the background of the times and social environment, the dissertation explained the ideological trend of Pak Chi-won in late Lee dynasty and the deep reasons of Jehol Diary’s appearance, studied the thought value, literature value and art creation of Jehol Diary comprehensively and systematically.Pak Chi-won’s living era which is the the excessive turning point of the Korea feudal society began to appear signs of collapse:agricultural production recovered, commodity economy developed, the social relations of production had been restructuring quietly, social problems were very serious, peasant uprisings were frequent. The awakening of the national consciousness was being prompted by the propagation of Western learning coming from China-the natural scientific and real learning theory of Ming and Qing Dynasties. In this context of the times, the idea of real learning emerged and developed, the tendency of De-Neo-Confucianism in literature and art also became more and more obvious, and a variety of new ideological factors emerged quietly in Lee Dynasty in the18th century. Pak Chi-won was sensitive to grasping the deep practical contradictions and social development of the new trends, and expressed his reform ideas through the creation of Jehol Diary.Jehol Diary combines the chronological with notepad body, The book presents the journey in diary form, and adopts the form of thematic records to present that are not easily described in the form of a dairy. The structure of the whole work is reasonable, and the context is clear, focused. The narrative type proses in Jehol Diary can be broadly divided into four categories: architectural culture, natural landscapes, cultural relics and personnel miscellanies. In addition, there are essay, fiction and notes text in the book. A large number of Chinese documents appears in Jehol Diary, and the attention and selecting to Chinese documents shows Pak’s Anti-Neo-Confucianism stand. With a comprehensive understanding of the profound accomplishment of Sinology and Chinese academic, Pak distinguished truth and showed off scholarship, and he intended to focus on the documents related to Korea, to highlight his national feelings.The observation of Human Geography in China and relics system of Qing Dynasty inspired Pak’s reform ideas. Jehol Diary depicted the journey from the Yalu River to Beijing, including famous mountains, rivers, fields and so on. China’s vast and rich landscapes brought new geographic feelings to Pak. Well-read and erudite Pak studied historical sites during the journey to show his patriotism and academic accomplishments; Jehol Diary is a comprehensive display of the advanced Qing Dynasty relics system, including all aspects of the surgery of the political rules, the social economy and cultural life. Based on visits to the Qing Dynasty and the reflection of the Korean social reality of Huayi Concept, Pak proposed the specific reform measures of LiYongHouSheng:Limiting the annexation of land, developing agriculture, encouraging trade and industry. All of this were in order to achieve the prosperity and strength of the Korea.The miscellany of Jehol Diary had high ideological and artistic achievements. The exposition of miscellany part expressed Pak’s political mission in the context of the theory and art. Horizons recorded accounted of the experience of landscape and activities, including Gubeikou ruins, White River, Imperial Summer Resort, and he conveyed the psychological feeling of aesthetic subject in the scenery description. With reality, flexibility and richness of the content, Jehol Diary had high historical value and cultural value. Miscellany named by the specific circumstances, which were flexible but not loose and rich in content. Their forms are very flexible and the languages are simple and intelligible literature imply strong. In short, the literature imply of Jehol Diary was strong. The arts style of writing of Jehol Diary reaches a pinnacle of the Korean travel literature. Jehol Diary shapes a vivid image of China, including images from the princely aristocracy to the general literati group and the panoramic image of fresh Qing Dynasty social scene in the18th century. Portrayal of the art in this book is rich and vivid, including literary typical and literary mood. Earthy and sharp polemical arts in Jehol Diary was embodies primarily through bold political commentator and extensive talk, and spicy and profound irony art exposures hypocritical feudal moral and ethical code of nobles. The language of Jehol Diary is simple and vivid, which varied sentence patterns, vivid metaphor, intricate parallelism were combined together. Language style of Jehol Diary is smooth and simply.The Jehol Diary is a literary masterpiece of Yonhaengnok and the milestone in the history of the Korean travel literature. The ideological content and criticalness shook the ruling class of the Lee dynasty and triggered the famous event called stylistic storm. Later,generations have been collated, published Paks writings and commemorating him. Jehol Diary bears Paks calm scanning the China and Korea in late18th century, and depicts the social conditions of the specific historical period with flexible artistic means. With broad perspective, deep content, flexible form, and profound impact, Jehol Diary shows the high realm of thought and national feelings of a Korean reformers, which is the outstanding representatives of the travel literature and oversea Chinese literary creation.