| Title |
A Study on the Landscape-Garden and Plants of Dosan-Seodang in Ancient Writings |
| Keywords |
도산서당(陶山書堂) ; 퇴계(退溪) ; 중용(中庸) ; 대(臺) ; 곡(曲) Dosan-Seodang ; Toegye ; Joong-Yuong ; Dae ; Gok |
| Abstract |
This article studies the landscape-garden and plants·flowers of Dosan-Seodang built byToegye. What is the compositional element of landscape-garden and which kind of trees wasselected to be planted are the key themes of this article. The compositional element oflandscape-garden of Dosan-Seodang encompasses the natural and artificial elements inscenery of Dosan-Seodang and its surrounding area. How these themes are related with Neo-Confucianism is another subject, which requires some research through the poems and somewritings of Toegye. And field works was made to ascertain some points in reference to thethemes. Toegye, Yi Hwang located Dosan-Seodang at the south of Dosan in 1557 to put it infront of Nak river. He named Dang as Dosan, Jae as Wanrak, and Sa as Nongwoon. From thenorth to the south of Dosan-Seodang, landscape elements such as Jeongu, Mongcheon, Jeolu,Cheonyeon, Gokgu, Cheonun were placed to set up the landscape-garden. The trees andflowers of Japanese apricot, bamboo, pine tree, Chrysanthemum morifolium, willow as wellas lotus were planted. The outer part of landscape-garden was composed of Gosan, Ildong,Wolmyeong-Dam, Hansok-Dam, Gyeong-Am, Micheonjang-Dam, Baekun-Dong, Dansa-Byeok, Cheonsa-Chon and the geographical elements of seven dae and three valleys near theWolran-Am were named Wolran-Dae, Goban-Dae, Eungsa-Dae, Rangyeong-Dae, Eopung-Dae, Neungun-Dae, Choeun-Dae and Seokdam-Gok, Cheonsa-Gok, and Dansa-Gokrespectively. The basic concept of building plan of Dosan-Seodang corresponds with the firstsentence in Joong-Yuong, “天命之謂性, 率性之謂道, 修道之謂敎”. -What Heaven hasconferred is called The Nature ; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty ; theregulation of this path is called Instruction. Poetry or lines in ancient Chinese writings werequoted to determine the meaning and the name of natural and artificial elements of scenery inthe landscape-garden. |