한국무용에 내재된 색채의 의미

Abstract

Our nation's unique sense of color was expressed in our nation's food, clothing, life style and shamanic aspects of life in general. The message you wanted to show through the colors, that is what can be defined as language. In the command of language of dance, one of the important visual elements is dance custom. The symbolic meaning of colors contained in the traditional Korean dance costume was examined based on general facts of such colors. As a result, first, it symbolized class. In most countries as well as our country, colors were generally used in costumes that show social classes and positions and the public could not be benefited from colors in their life while special noble classes including royal family enjoyed colors. Second, Cheoyong Mu (Cheoyong dance) was well combined with the directions and the colors and contained the symbolic meanings as follows; the east referred to blue, the west referred to white, the north referred to black, the south referred to red, and the center referred to yellow. Those various colors were splendid and fleshy and were harmonized with masks. Third, a Pungmul costume worn when Korean traditional musical instruments are played are made from the colors of three disasters caused from heaven, earth and man which mean negative and positive and part. Generally, the costume is composed of the Korean traditional white pants, the white jacket and the black, blue, red colored hat, and red, yellow, blue colored hairband, which refer to a positive color. Finally, in the example of symbolizing regions, the reason that Salpuri Dance is shown by white costume is to be affected by ceremony costumes that are produced mainly by white dresses such as Korean traditional white skirt, jacket, socks, etc, which are worn for dances of the Southern regions.