北京에서의 許筠 足跡 고찰

A Study on Heo Gyun(許筠) s Traces in Beijing(北京)

This paper makes a direct consideration on the traces of Heo Gyun that he left when he went to Beijing as an envoy to Ming China. Heo Gyun s envoy to Ming China is very important to consider his life, sholarship, and ideas. Heo Gyun made envoy leaving to China four times in his life. He reached to Liaodong in his first envoy leaving and entered into Beijing, the capital of Ming China at the rest three envoy leavings. The envoy leavings to Beijing were occured in 1597, 1614, and 1615. The three staying on Beijing were all at Nanhuitongguan(南會同館, the Southern Hall; 玉河館, Yuheguan). Heo Gyun entered into Beijing through the Gate of Chaoyang(朝陽門) and went out of the city through the Gate of Chongwen(崇文門) at the third envoy trip. It is highly probable that he followed the route from the Gate of Chaoyang to Nanhuitongguan Heo Bong(許篈) his elder cousin had used. Ming at that time exercised strict control over and took closed measures on foreign envoys. Therefore, it was actually prohibited for Heo Gyun to go out of Nanhuitongguan arbitrarily except on the case of official duties. Due to this reason, there were many among Heo s poems composed at Manhuitongguan, which dealt with his reading and looking back upon the past, Heo Gyun made an official trip to the Forbidden City, the Ministry of Personnel Affairs(禮部), Beihuitongguan(北會同館: the Northern Hall, the Gate of Everlasting Peace(長安門).