조선 후기 선원보첩류의 편찬체제와 그 성격

Abstract

There were various types of royal genealogical records documented in the whole period of Joseon dynasty. Early in the dynasty, such royal family records were found as 'Description for Royal Origins'(Sunwon-rok), 'Genealogy Tables of Royal Relatives'(Donnyung-pochup), 'Records for Royal Trees'(Eochup), 'Eight Nodes of Royal Ascendants'(Pal-kojo-do) and others. Every three years, 'Royal Clan Office'(Jongpu-si) and 'Office for Royal Relatives'(Donnyung-pu) gathered a candidate list from alleged royal family relatives in order to delineate the scope of royal families and treat them with privileges. In late time of the dynasty, there appeared a different style which was different from the traditional ones. They were 'Representative Genealogy Document of Royal Families'(Sunwon-kyepo-kiryak), 'Genealogical Records of Queens' (Wangbi-sepo), 'Continued Records of Royal Families'(Sunwon-sokpo) and others. It seemed to reflect the social realities at that time that there appeared some changes in editing system of the royal genealogy and there occurred a new type of family documents. After 16th century in Joseon, especially due to the rapid development of Rite Studies(Ye-hak) and the establishment of family system through the first son's lineage, documentation of family genealogies had been prevailed among noble class of people(Yangban) with assistance from many experts on genealogy. This trend had an impact on the royal family. We can observe some changes both in the stylistic layouts and in the scope of inclusion for relatives, for instance, in 'Description of Royal Origins'(Sunwon-rok) which was done in 1681 or in the 7th year of King Sukjong reign; following the normal style of noble class records, the original vertical tables in column shifted into row tables with horizontal lines: the original scope to include 6th node offsprings equally in the paternal and maternal lines, on one hand, had been expanded up to 9th node offsprings in the patrilineage, while the matrilineage, on the other, had been preserved the same original 6th node with no change. This phenomenon was explained by the late neo-confucian ideology(Sungri-hak) represented as 'Expansion of Inside Nodes but Reduction of Outside Nodes'(Sangnay-Ryakoy) in which they began to sharply discriminate mother nodes in favor of father nodes. Royal family records are important to understand the core dominating class constituting the royal family in Joseon dynasty, because the records were regarded a public document officially approved for honorable treatment. We do not have any kind of rudimentary understanding yet on which system various kinds of royal genealogies were adopted in documenting relatives, why the system changed, and why a new style of records came to be prevailed. In addition, among various names of royal family documents, what distinctive characteristics the records had is not known. This paper has revealed what characteristics each royal family record had, especially focusing on the systems and process how it was documented, with reference to the social realities at that time.