서사민요의 지역문학적 성격: 충청 지역을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate characteristics of regional literature in folk ballads, especially focused on the Chungcheong District. There are national types which have been transmitted nationally and regional types which have been transmitted regionally in folk ballads. Even national types have several subtypes which have regional characteristics. This shows that folk ballads are the regional literature and formed regional characteristics which have been created, transmitted for long time by the people in that area. The Folk ballads have been not transmitted abundantly in the Chung- cheong district, as compared with Youngnam and Honam district. It was because the Chungcheong district is located in the boundary which are far from Youngnam and Honam called as the center of the folk ballads. Moreover, the Chungcheong district has not the adequate circumstances, since the region has the aristocratic culture centered at the Yangban. However, the didactic folk ballads have been transmitted in the Chung- cheong district more vividly than in the other regions. Those types are as follows; <The weaving wife who waiting for her husband>, <The woman who cooks and treats the buckwheat food>, <The woman who cooks and treats herbs>, <The woman who eats a chestnut that a mouse left with her baby>. The folk ballads in the Chungcheong district have not the trend of resistance, but the trend of the moral instruction. They have the charac- teristics which have been settled amicably through the happy ending mostly instead of the tragic ending. It might have been formed in the history of the Chungcheong district which were located in the three ancient Kingdoms – Goguryeo, Silla and Bagje.