A Word for the Chemistry by the Person who Disliked the Chemistry (Hwahagpogizaga Sseuneun Hwahag Iyagi) (Tcheonzamun 097th - 112nd)
Authors: Kim Sangdeog Augustin 
Published: January 2025

French missionary Dallet (1874) wrote in his book that Korean language is different from Chinese language, and he wrote that ‘The thousand character essay’ was utilized in old China for instructing Chinese character to their children. ‘The thousand character essay’ is called in Korea as ‘Tcheonzamun’. Is it possible to translate well ‘The thousand character essay’? It is frequently translated that every 4 letters of ‘The thousand character essay’ (Tcheonzamun). The present researcher called the 4 letters a line. Sometimes, 8 letters (two lines) of Tcheonzamun can be translated together. But translation of 16 letters (four lines) for Tcheonzamun is not seen. The present researcher calls these 16 letters a poem, Tcheonzamu poem. But Park et al., (2021a; 2021b) translated several poems of each 16 Chinese letters. The theme of the poems is usually ‘the love between the husband and the wife’. But in the present work, the theme was not ‘the love’ but ‘the study’. The present researcher used somewhat old book of ‘The thousand character essay’ (Tcheonzamun) written by Han (1583). And the range of this work is (Tcheonzamun 097th - 112nd). There are two methods for the translation of ‘The thousand character essay’ (Tcheonzamun). The first one is through the meaning of Chinese characters, and the second is through Korean pronunciation of Chinese character from ‘The thousand character essay’ (Tcheonzamun). In the present work, the researcher tried to translate through the meaning of Chinese characters on Tcheonzamun. This is the translation of a poem of ‘The thousand character essay (Tcheonzamun)‘. The range of this work is (Tcheonzamun 097th - 112nd). And the title of this work is ‘A word for the chemistry by the person who disliked the chemistry (Hwahagpogizaga Sseuneun Hwahag Iyagi) (Tcheonzamun 097th - 112nd)’. The results obtained are described as follows. <Number in Tcheonzamun Chinese characters (the pronunciation on Korean language and written in English alphabet)> 097-100 弔 (Zo) 民 (Min) 伐 (Beol) 罪 (Zoe). You think “I did not study well (罪), so I did hurt (弔) my neighbor’s sentiment (民)!” But do not scold yourself (伐), please! 101-104 周 (Zu) 發 (Bal) 殷 (Eun) 湯 (Tang). Do not study hard in order to take a good result at once! In order to get the significant and rapid effect (湯) for the major parts (殷), you must get even the slow response (發) for the smaller parts (周) all of the surface. It is important to do the advance little by little, and here and there. 105-108 坐 (Zwa) 朝 (Zo) 問 (Mun) 道 (Do). If you can get up early in the morning (朝) and you can sit (坐) and study hard until the late night. It will be very nice, isn’t it? But in order to do well this work of the study, you must be willing (問) to do it, and you must have the motive for this work. The study, it is not forced to do (道) so. 109-112 垂 (Su) 拱 (Gong) 平 (Pyeong) 章 (Zang). Do you want to do the study all the time (平)? Do you want to become the talented person (章)? Please do not delete the thought of studying, even if the place is not favorable (垂) for the work of study. If you do not abandon the thought of “I will do my work of this study!”, and if you continue this thought even at the place unfavorable. You will become such a state as you want to become (拱).