한국 전통태교의 특징과 역사적 의의

Abstract

In traditional prenatal care of an unborn child through attention of a pregnant woman to her own mental health, our ancestors have developed delivery historic mores and a dream of forthcoming conception for procreate healthy, had good an effect on the fetal life to raise with great care sincerely words and deeds of pregnant woman the side. Its prenatal culture have a more or less unscientific elements, but all men around pregnant woman made efforts to keep her physically and mentally healthy for favorable unborn child. As a matter of fact, modern medical sciences approve excellence of Korean traditional prenatal education in that an unborn child is dependent on mother's mental health and nutrition. The mental preparation of motherhood(and sayings and doings) was considered important in traditional prenatal culture as well, because our ancestors thought that the mother's body and an unborn child are bound together and are conscious of the seven emotions(joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate, lust) in the same way. The tabooed food and behaviors for pregnant woman demonstrated the superiority of the emotional influences. For the indigestibles and pungent foods were had to pregnant woman. In our traditional society unborn children were esteemed as obvious impersonation more than in the Western society, because we considered qualitative development of unborn children to be very essential. Therefore, such viewpoints have developed prenatal culture. An unborn child during the period of pregnancy took the whole education(physical, emotional, intellectual, moral education) through the motherhood, and for the birth of normal child thought much of the fatherhood prenatal culture. Consequently, traditional prenatal education was synthetical prenatal training because of working in close cooperation together all members of a family, relations and next-door neighbors.