조선 왕실 의소묘(懿昭廟) 의례의 형성과 특징

Abstract

Within this paper I shall discuss the ways in which the religious culture of the Joseon dynasty changes through ‘Euisomyo(懿昭廟) Ritual’ of Joseon Royal Family, which were performed as Joseon dynasty national rituals(國家儀 禮) by analyzing its formation and how the character. Euisoseson(懿昭世孫), the grandson of King Yongjo(英祖), who was the Crown Prince but has died early and childless, became the object of worship. Originally, a grandson like this one could not be made the object of ancestor worship for he was not a father of a king. This rituals’object of worship countered Confucianism orthodoxy. It would have to be classified as improper rituals(淫祀) according to the principle of differentiation between proper rituals(正祀) and improper rituals(淫祀), but it was officially adopted as part of the national rites without any controversy. To fully understand the reason and motivation, this paper presents three elements. The first is reorganization of national rituals and sovereign strengthening in the days of King Sukjong(肅宗) and King Youngjo(英祖). The second is In the motivation of Sejamyo(順懷廟) ritual which practiced as the first same case during king Myeongjong’s(明宗) reign, the present of Sejamyo (世子墓) ritual in the national rituals(國家儀禮), the present of Tesangji(太常 志) which is the documentation of offerings and The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty(朝鮮王朝實錄). This ritual was preserved even after the passing of the kings who had originally performed it. The third is the development of large kinship organizations and strength of Lagal-family system. This represents the importance of the firstborn son as a center of a family and its lineage. This ritual's characteristic is that it worships as the Crown Prince as he was alive. Through the formation process of Euisomyo Ritual, we can understand more widely that in Confucianism worship was not only at the center of the descent-focused patrilineage but also the various deaths from different lineages that came to be worshipped in the royal family. Also it shows us the meaning and the importance of deaths in the formation of new institutions and in the expansion of the boundaries of existing institutions and principles. Through the formation of this ritual, an lineage of the childless Crown Prince within the royal-family was formed.