I went to the Seongho Museum where I could learn a lot about Seongho Yi-Ik and his family. The B1 floor has experience exhibition hall where you can experience fun activities related to Seongho Yi-Ik or watch videos about Seongho Yi-Ik. And where I am mainly going to introduce you about is the second floor. But before that, I would like to indtroduce Seongho Yi-Ik to you.
Seongho Yi-Ik (1681~1763) was born in Usan, Pyeongando, his father's place of exile. When his father passed away, he moved to Ansan with his mother, where their ancestorial burial ground was located. He learnt his studies by his secondest older brother, Lee-Jam and didn't set a foot in politics in his whole live. Instead, he became the great scholar of the late Joseon Dynasty known for his great work, Silhak(Factionalism). According to the National Institute of the Korean Language Standard Korean Dictionary, Silhak is a new study style aimed at the real-life benefits of the Joseon Dynasty. It flourished from the 17th to the 18th century, and studied the implementation of due diligence and welfare, respect for technology, and improvement of national economic life.
This is Seongho Yi-Ik's portrait. But the interesting thing is that this portrait wasn't painted when he was alive. This portrait was created because of his students who wanted to remember him after he died.
Now, let's go up the stairs to the second floor. There is the life of Seongho Yi-Ik at the side of the stairs. So you can see it while going up.
The first cultural heritage that I am going to introduce is Lee Hajin's handwriting "Cheongeummuljeon".
Lee Hajin, who is a father of SeongHo Yi-Ik, was a Mun-shin(simmilar as a writer) of the 17th century during the middle of Joseon Dynasty. Because his handwriting was so good , "Cheongeummuljeon" was designated as one of the Korea's haritages. It contains the meaning that "Don't give it to anyone even if someone gives you thousands of gold." Cheongeummuljeon has total 10 albums but unfortuately, we cannot know the order of the albums because it isn't written on the cover. And the cover contains the first word of the album or the lists of titles. Cheongeummuljeon is a work that expresses the affection for natural objects in the surrounding mountains and streams and simple possetions. There is a spirit of the Seongho family to pursue a simple life without greed.
The second cultural heritage is "Okkdonggeum." Okkdonggeum was made and used by Seongho Yi-Ik's third oldest brother Okkdong Yi-Seo, who got a paulownia tree struck by lightning in Manpok-dong, Geumgangsan Mountain, and made a geomungo(거문고) with it and wrote a poem on the back. I could see the writings because Okkdonggeum was lifted and there was a mirror at the floor.
Most of us would only know one name of it, Okkdonggeum, but it has total seven names. Firstly, "Okkdonggeum(옥동금)"; named after Okkdong Yi-Seo. Secondly, "Gamleegeu(감리금)" and "Eumyanggeum(음양금)"; meaning that because we can hear the sounds of heavens at the ground, it has the sky's and ground's yin and yang. Third, "Bakryeokgeum(박력금)"; because it was made by a paulownia tree struck by lightning. Forth, "Gunjageum(군자금)"; because the magnificent and splendid sound of it is like Yi-Seo's knowledge and virtue. Fifth, "Bongraegeum(봉래금)"; named after the Geumgangsan Mountain(its name was Bongrae Mountain). And lastly, "Poonggyegeum(풍계금)"; meaning that it is the instrument that forbids evil.
The long paper within the glass case is music sheet used then. It was very different from the music sheet that we see today and I wondered how people at the time could play by looking at that sheet.
Lastly, this is not a cultural heritage but I would like to share it with you since it is one of the great works of Seongho Yi-Ik; The Seonghosaseol. Seonghosaseol is simmilar to encyclopedia that contains his thoughts about academics, the logic of things and many others.
I could also see other things related to Seongho Yi-Ik.
Seongho Yi-Ik's family tree, the place to display donated items,
the map of Ansan, the portrait of Yi-Sang(1560~1624)
the books written by Seongho Yi-Ik
about "Samduhoi(삼두회)"
(a gathering where he made bean porridge, bean sprouts, and soybean paste soup with the beans he cultivated and enjoyed the day eating only these three foods)
and others
I wanted to introduce you to the most of the things that I saw and learned but because it was getting long, I couldn't do it. I hope you would visit Seongho Museum and see what I have seen and learn what I have learnt. It would be very different and would be better to go there and see for yourself then just reading it. Thank you.
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