조선후기 혼례택일 연구

Abstract

A wedding ceremony is one of the four ceremonial occasions of coming of age, wedding, funeral, and ancestral rites considered important in the study of ritual (禮學). For safe wedding ceremonies and happy life afterwards, it is necessary to study wedding ceremonies and choosing an auspicious day for the ceremony. Therefore, this study analyzes wedding ceremonies based on 『Easy Manual of the Four Rites』 published in the late Joseon by Lee, Jae(李縡, 1680~1746), and the analysis on choosing an auspicious day for wedding ceremony is based on 『Hyupgiltongui』, 『Seontaekgiyo』, 『Yongil Kwigam』, 『Ttianqidayao』 and 『Jeungbosallimgyeongje』. In the ritual of Hyeongugorye(見舅姑禮) done towards the parents of the groom during the ceremony and at her in-law’s house after the ceremony was over, the groom stood on the east and the bride stood on the west(Principle of east man west woman), which is recorded in 『Easy Manual of the Four Rites』. This principle is based on the Taoistic Yin-Yang and Five Elements theory, which indicates the accordance with the natural law. Nevertheless, this principle is not observed nowadays, and should be reconsidered. In the result of analyzing the choice of the best day for wedding ceremony from 『Hyupgiltongui』, 『Seontaekgiyo』, 『Yeongilguigam』 and 『The Great Compendium of Nature’s Secrets』, which are Chutaekseo books (推擇書) in the late Joseon Dynasty, the best year was not generally chosen, but they considered the best month the most, followed by the best date and the best hour. As this study does not cover the principle of Sinsal being deduced used in the choice of the best day for wedding ceremony, this can be a task for future studies.