모습이 특이한 연화문에 관한 연구

Abstract

Korean people have expressed unique lotus patterns in a variety of ways along with other lotus patterns for about 2,000 years since the beginning of the Three Kingdoms period around the 1st century AD. These unique lotus pattern are not foreign expression introduced with the introduction of Buddhism. Nor are they any expression conveyed by the original Chinese historical and cultural region, currently located in Shaanxi and Henan provinces of China. They were created solely by inheriting unique expressions developed from the Neolithic Age or Gojoseon Period, Bronze Age, within the original Korean historical and cultural region. Our ancestors clearly recognized these unique patterns and expressed them in lotus patterns. This study is a conclusion drawn from many cases in which these unique patterns are mostly used together with other lotus patterns or are connected to each other, and the entire shape replaces other lotus patterns or appears transformed into a different form. Until now, academic researches do not regard these unusual lotus patterns as lotus patterns. They either assumed it was an abstract pattern or a geometric pattern, or even gave it completely unrelated, incorrect names. The unique lotus pattern spread further as it was designed in a variety of ways, firstly in the process of containing and expressing gi(氣, vitality) and growth(including the birth in lotus) and secondly, by accepting various patterns before Three Kingdoms period. It is hoped that through this study, the unique lotus pattern will be clearly identified and that the fact that it was spread throughout Chinese region and had a great influence on the expression of the lotus flower will also be known.