坡平尹氏 魯城家 女性의 역할과 位相

Abstract

This study considered the aspects of women’s life, which are left in a literary collection of the Papyeong Yun family, by dividing them into a woman who was loyal to her husband by dying for her chastity, a Madam equipped with virtues of a nobleman, and womanly literary portrait of life. This study intended to raise the role and status of women in the Papyeong Yun family who surmounted the time of hardships by their virtuous behavior through their fidelity, filial piety, thriftiness, education, communication with the neighbors, an human relations. The Lees of Gongju and the Lees of Hansan were loyal to their husbands by maintaining their chastity by death. and in case of the daughter of the Lees of Hansan- Madam Yun got ‘Jeongryeo’(the red gate) from the State at the time of her death in appreciation of her devoted filial love for her parents as a role model of women. The women in the Papyeong Yun family led their housekeeping through weaving and sewing based on their ancestors’ family rules, i.e. industrious, thrifty life in replacement of men who didn’t enter the government service in a vortex of the purge of literati and party strife. These women were widely equipped with the virtues of a noble man, and gave relief to siblings, or neighbors who were bad-off instead of accumulating wealth while being strictly thrifty to themselves. The women in the Papyeong Yun family became acquainted with learning while growing up in a well-disciplined family; based on this, they made efforts for education in order for their children & husbands to be devoted to true learning. In addition, the staying on top of good manners, they served their parents devotedly, had fraternity between siblings by putting womanly virtues into practice; further, they hardly ever ran counter to the above things even with their relatives. They became a role model to the madams in the neighborhood as they were smart at proprieties; in addition, the women in the Papyeong Yun family also became the object of love and respect as by treating the people, or neighbors in their humble status strictly also generously according to family rules. On the strength of such women’s life, the Papyeong Yun family was able to maintain their reputation as the family of learning, and their faithfulness and poor but honest living in succession to family tradition became a driving force which made it possible for them to avoid the ravages of Donghak Peasant Revolution or the June 25 Incident.