조선후기 類書類의 세시풍속과 세시사상

Abstract

In this article, I studied about the traditional seasonal customs shown the traditional encyclopedic literature, what we called the Ryuseoryu texts, written by many of Choseon neo-Confucian scholars. The Ryuseoryu texts appeared first in the early 17th century of the middle Choseon dynasty. Those texts had a role as a source of intellectual informaton to Choseon people. This my research show us how our seasonal customs are passed down untill recent our soceity. The recent folklore study has a strong point to fieldwork survey, in addition to that, here I tried to improve the textual understanding of our folklore phenomena through the wide references of traditional encyclopedic literature. I select five main traditional encyclopedic literature, Jibong- yusul, Sanlim-gyengje, Sungho-sasul, Ojuyenmun-jangjensango, Songnam-japji. These texts contain many of references, histories and stories about traditional seasonal customs at that time. It’s important they sometiems stated to a term of now folklore or our old folklore of East country, etc.. This show us their contemporary information of seasonal folklore well. And their texts were written in basis of a kind of traditional calendar system. In this idea of traditional time we can read the people at that time considered as the time was given from the sacred heaven. Their seasonal customs also based on that traditional time idea. As stated in my article, it is important that the traditional encyclopedic literature shows us their diverse features of seasonal customs life well.