연변 조선족 시인들의 시에 나타난 백두산의 의미 - 전후냉전 시기(1953~1990)를 중심으로

초록

There are lots of poems about Mt Baekdu written by the ethnic poets living in Yanbian province, China. It is very significant to review the Mt Baekdu called the sacred place of all the Korean through the poems by the ethnic poets especially in Yanbian province in the condition of the separation and the severance of an interrelationship between South-North Korea and South Korea- Ethnic Korean living in China incurred by Cold War. In regard to Mt Baekdu, the following features come into sight.First of all, Chunji at the top of Mt Baekdu appears to be a maternal sacred place in the poems. Chunji which was created as the result of a volcanic activity is connected to Songhwua river to the north, Tumen river to the east, Yalu river to the west. Such an act of Climbing up or yearning for Mt Baekdu during the national and historical periods of ordeal shows that the Chunji has the functions for purifying and healing its torments soon after. Like aboves, Chunji that we (our ethnic group) used to set up a base for the nation is located not only in the middle of Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula ,but also functioning as a spiritual anchor and a maternal sacred place in the mind of poets.Second, the poetries regarding Mt Baekdu well describe the ethnic Koreans, living in Yanbian who had left their hometown escaping from the great famine in homeland in 1880, suffering lots of painful separations and the difficulties of settling in Yanbian province. They also show Joys, sorrows, discriminations and insults that our ancestors went through in the process of settling in a foreign country as emigrants. The anti-Japanese struggles and fights broken out in the area of Mt Baekdu and Yanbian province by Korean resistance guerrilla for their independence and the process of overcoming hardship under Japanese imperialism appear vividly in the poems. It also shows that Mt Baekdu represents the vivid historical site and the background to all the Korean who lost their homeland.Lastly, the poetries praise Mt Baekdu as a centripetal point for recovering cultural homogeneity, facing the reality of separation, conflicts and discords of Homeland.The poetries wish the nation to be reunified through the process of awakening and arousing national consciousness by reminding the geographic and historic meanings of Mt Baekdu. The poets also hope that unified Korea contributes to the way of the peace and the prosperity for the whole world.The meanings and values of Mt Baekdu divided into three dimensions are mutually and organically linked together beyond the individual characters. This is because Mt Baekdu remains not only as a myth but also accompanies in the historic place at all times with us. In spite of the national separation, the ethnic Korean poets in Yanbian province tried to present the national identity and the spirit through Mt Baekdu and which reminds the poets living in the separated country of recovering the national homogeneity.

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