전통문화의 전승과제 탐색: 연구자 가정제례와 학술활동을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide tasks for promoting the transmission of current Korean traditional culture. This culture, accordingly, has been analyzed and reflected within the researcher’s ancestral rites, academic activities, and related references through qualitative research methods since April 2003. Results revealed that tangible cultural properties such as relics have been handed down between generations with little changes, but intangible ones such as ancestral rites have not been transmitted principally to the next generation without modification. It means that intangible traditional culture is the legacy both modified and transmitted continually according to each generation's selections and/or historical authorities. Considering this, it is more important to recognize the reality and transmission tasks of an intangible traditional culture, rather than to emphasize a typical representation and/or to concentrate on the original shape of one. Also, it is reasonable to acknowledge that it is better to find the connecting points between a traditional culture and (post-)modern one(s) for effective transmission of the traditional one, rather than to teach coercively a pseudo original tradition. In other words, the traditional culture is a precious knowledge heritage transmitted from our ancestors to us, and at the same time, becomes an important resource for our creative lives and thought. This paper, therefore, attempts to suggest some guideline tasks: task for proper study, for finding and preserving, and for using and transmitting traditional cultural properties.