용담검무의 역사성과 내재적 가치

Abstract

This study purposed to be Based on a literature survey and historical background research about Donggyeongdaejeon and Yongdamyusa, this study tries to investigate the historicity and intrinsic values of the Yongdamkummoo. The Yongdamkummoo, which Teacher Suun performed as part of his religious ritual, shares the spirit with the sword dancing in the earliest age in consideration of the historical tradition of the Korean sword dancing. That is to say, the Yongdamkummoo is the kind of sword dancing that has been performed at the religious rituals of Donghak, which is based on the traditional Korean thoughts, and that internally contains the stage of the unification of Heaven and mankind which one can reach via the rituals and the aspiration for opening a new world via the unification of Heaven and mankind. The Yongdamkummoo means a sword dancing in which the martialism and strong force comes out via the sword along with beautiful dancing forms. The present sword dance does not have the martialism and martial properties, and the kind of sword dancing in the form of entertaining performance is generally known. From this perspective, the Yongdamkummoo can be said to have values as mind training and physical exercise along with its martialist values. Also, as for the efficacy of the Yongdamkummoo as part of life sports, people at a wide range of ages can participate in the Yongdamkummoo as they training themselves with the motion in state and that in movement as well as with physical balance training in spinning and the left-right symmetric motions. In the light of the historicity and characteristics of the Yongdamkummoo as seen from this study, it has a high utility as a life sport along with its values as martial art and as a traditional art.