A Study on Lee Jay-Hyun's chan(贊) in 'The Collection of Filial Strories'
『 효행록 』소재 이제현의 찬(贊) 연구
The book 'Collection of Filial Stories' was first edited by Jun Kwon with Chinese representative stories of 24 pieces which book was, then, dedicated to his father Mr, Pu Kwon. His father further added more 38 cases to the original edition, asking for his son-in-law, Jay-Hyun Lee, to compose Commendable Rhymes or Chan(贊) to each of the stories who was at that time famous on his writings. It was his grandson, Kun Kwon, who was one of the representative scholars of the new dynasty Choson and managed to publish the final vesion with his own annotations further appended. Although his Commendable Rhymes duplicated the contents in the text, Jay-Hyun Lee tried to give some changes in form in order to avoid monotony. This would be one reason, the writer suspects, that these Rhymes should deserve their value except the rarity. In the first part devoted to the preceeding 24 pieces, Lee composed twelve pair-lines with four letters in a line with diffenrent forms of rhyming foot. Firstly, all pair-lines keep the same final rhyme syllable. Secondly, half of them keep the same one but the other half from the 8th line adopt a different one. Thirdly, the 6th and l0th pair-lines have different rhyme syllables so that all three rhymes are observed. And lastly, two rhymes mutate themselves each other every two pair-lines. The second part, however, has only 8 pair-lines. The similar pattern in changing rhyme words is also observed. His rhymes were seem to be evaluated highly from his days in the sense that his works were adopted seriously in 'Three Modes of Moral Behaviour with Pictures' published by the government to teach lay people in early Choson dynasty. Unfortunately, since no rhymes were included in his publication, nobody mentions about it yet. It would be a merit, at least, of this paper which digs out his Commedable Rhymes for the first time.