『松南雜識』의 민속문화 자료 검토

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the folk-cultural materials in the “Songnamjabji(1855)” written by Cho Jae-sam(1808~1866). “Songnamjabji” is a pre-modern encyclopedic literature, so called Ryuseo, about the Korean folk-culture in the late Joseon Dynasty. It is consisted of 4,433 articles classified into astronomy, geography, agricultural economy, and so on. “Jibongyuseol” is the most quoted among literatures of Joseon, and other materials such as “Seonhosaseol” are quoted. The most described items based on author's view are as follows. First, “Songnamjabji” recorded farming related superstitions in the late Joseon Dynasty. Second, it contained historic tales emphasizing loyalty and filial piety. Third, lots of names and customs of clothes were included. Especially, it reflected the pride of Joseon's costume based on the view of Civilization-barbarism in the Clothing chapter. Fourth, the author represented the critical view about the domestic situations, and was aware of crisis on the coming of the West. Lastly, it introduced products from the West such as alarm, watch, textiles, and highlighted that there had been shops selling western textiles in Jonglu of Seoul. Though the author represented the feeling of crisis about western arms and power realized by western ships, the author's recognition of the West was near the superstition. The author completed the 4,433 items based on a variety folk culture materials, contemplating the relationship between the classics and that day. As a result, it was not so difficult to find the folk materials in the first half of the 19th century in the Joseon Dynasty. However, it had some limitations by the facts that the importance of the Chinese classic was very large and that the author recognized the approaching West as superstitions.