In the seventeenth century, the encyclopedic writing was introduced from China and the description of all things classified by a type was prevailing. It is notable that Yi Eung-hee, one common noble man whose anthology, Okdamyugo had not known to the world wrote the Poetic Encyclopedia, Manmulpyeon, based on this stream. Manmulpyeon followed the refined style as a poem, but the information about things the poem contains beats Jibongyuseol or Domundaejak, which were the similar kind of works, in quantity and quality. Furthermore, Yi Eung-hee produced a series of poems about all 47 kinds of mountain birds and water birds at that time, which was like a bird encyclopedia. The poem describing all things including nature in a series of poems by Yi Eung-hee was one of the most conspicuous works in Korean Chinese poetry history and cultural history.

In the seventeenth century, the encyclopedic writing was introduced from China and the description of all things classified by a type was prevailing. It is notable that Yi Eung-hee, one common noble man whose anthology, Okdamyugo had not known to the world wrote the Poetic Encyclopedia, Manmulpyeon, based on this stream. Manmulpyeon followed the refined style as a poem, but the information about things the poem contains beats Jibongyuseol or Domundaejak, which were the similar kind of works, in quantity and quality. Furthermore, Yi Eung-hee produced a series of poems about all 47 kinds of mountain birds and water birds at that time, which was like a bird encyclopedia. The poem describing all things including nature in a series of poems by Yi Eung-hee was one of the most conspicuous works in Korean Chinese poetry history and cultural history.

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