조선시대 경기도 지역의 열녀 사례분석

Abstract

Based on the "Yeojidoseo", total 201 cases of virtuous women has been analyzed in 38 villages of Kyeonggi province in Chosun Dynasty. In the peacetime, it was much more common to kill themselves than to keep their chastity after their husband's death. In the form of dying for their chastity, they hanged themselves most often after the death of their husband. Next was the case of drinking poison and dying. It is noteworthy that there were women who drank deep salt water and died after her husband's death. In Kyeonggi province, like in Gyeongsang province, there were more women who were killed or suicided in order to keep their chastity in wartime than in peacetime. And female casualties in Kyeonggi Province showed that there were far more female victims in the Ching Invasion than in the Japanese Invasion. During the Ching Invasion in the year of 1636, women in Gaeseong area were the most in numbers, followed by Pungdeok area. During the Ching Invasion in the year of 1637, it can be seen that there were overwhelming numbers of women in the Ganghwa area. During the wartime, the total number of suicide cases was 68, while the number of killing cases was 28. This shows that there were more killings in the Japanese Invasion than in the Ching Invasion According to the distribution of the number of the virtuous women in the region, the largest number of women was in the Gaeseong area at the time of the Ching Invasion, followed by Ganghwa. In terms of the virtuous women's status, 72 percent of the wives were in high class(Yangban), while only 20 percent was the sum of wives in middle class and the wives in lower class. And some of the concubine were rewarded. The reward showed that Jeongmun(旌門) and Jeongryo(旌閭) was overwhelming. In addition, Gupbok(給復), Jeongryo Bokho(旌閭 復戶), Jeongryo Gupbok(旌閭 給復), memorial stone(立碑) were rewarded.