Mountain Imagery In Korean Classical Literature And Its Cultural Meaning

Since long ago, Korean minority had comprehend the nature as a combination of all kinds of state like relagionary, artistic, cultural etc. Among this complex concept, mountain was the most universal matter in the nature, and it was aslo be the matrix of one of which was called "human vessel" s-water. Different nation has their own characteristics. Therefore, Korean minority has their own special opinion on montains too.We can see that an idea which was called "nature -syncretism" had been reflected from a good deal of classic Korean literatures. Among all the nature-subjected literatures, most was produced with a theme of mountain. Mountain was a static substance, and which gives a sense of firmness and truthfulness. So people admire it immensely, and they always recluse in the mountain abreact ting their gloominess, grief and expressing their royalism and patriotism.This paper reviewed Korean minority's traditional mountain adoration and national belief at first, and then analyzed mountain's imago and its implied connotation from those concrete texts, such as myths, poesy, mountain travel diaries among all kinds of Korean classic literatures. Consequently, we can educe the mountain's symbolic meaning in the classic literatures, and review the changes of people's cognition uponmountain from a traditional one into a modern one.This paper put a great weight on reviewing the mountain's meaning of imago and cognize shape. And it explored the inherence rule of the development of people's cognition on the mountains from a traditional one into a modern one. In the end, it explained to the end what the symbolic meaning of mountain is, and the reason why so many poet crazy to it.