의암별제의 특성 연구

Abstract

Uiambyeolje is a ritual ceremony for Nongae who gathered a Japanese general in her arms and fell into the Namgang as soon as Jinjuseong was fallen at the second Jinjuseong combat in June 1953 at the time of Japanese invasion of Korea. Nongae was a gisaeng(Korean geisha) but she was willing to sacrifice her life for the country, hence Nongae began to be called the title of 'righteous gisaeng(Korean geisha)' to praise her virtue and contribution after the war(Japanese invasion). A historical record about Uiambyeolje exists in the 「Gyobanggayo」which was complied by Bakwon(pen name,號) Jeonghyeonseok. The people who conduct and proceed Uiambyeolje are comprised of the women working as a gisaeng(korean geisha) in Jinju. Moreover, Uiambyeolje is the only ritual ceremony mixed music, song and dancing except Jongmyo (shrine) and Munmyo(a confucian shrine) ancestral ritual. Uiambyeolje first conducted by Jeonghyeonseok was interrupted during the Japanese ruling era but it was began again by Seonggyeongok in 1992 and it is continuing to these days. We can find that Uiambyeolje is close to an indigenous korean thought, 'taste for the arts(風流)'. The taste for the arts was one of the practice methods of hwarang in the Silla era. An ancient idea of the taste for the arts put emphasis on a ancestral rites but as it was handed down, a festive character to enjoy music and song became more emphasized. Therefore, Uiambyeolje has properties both ritualistic function to perform ancestral rites for Nongae and festive function mixed ancestral rites with music, song and dancing.