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Reforming the State rituals in Late Joseon Dynasty through Je’rye Deung’rok(祭禮謄錄)

  • The Review of Korean History
  • 2014, (116), pp.243-286
  • Publisher : The Historical Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Jiyoung Kim 1

1서울대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Je’rye Deung’rok(祭禮謄錄) compiled by the Jeon’hyang-sa office shows us about specific services that were held on dates dictated by the Monthly Order(“Weol’ryeong,月令”) and it’s changes. Through this records, we can get to know about sacrificial items(“Hi’saeng, 犧牲”) for different level of rituals and how difficult it was provided on time. Governors of Joseon had made the lots of taboos and forbidden customs for the prayer rituals. Official governance of state stopped temporarily several days before the ritual day, officials that carried out the prayer rituals should pledged them to sincerity. During the King Sukjong’s reign, a wide range of disaster and severe famine had stricken. Dynastic officials had even made with new kind of prayer services like Dae’Na-je(大儺祭) ritual that regarded as an improper means of invocation. But soon, they stopped that kind of rituals and conducted prayer ritual for good harvest at Sajik altar(社稷). Confucian prayer ritual’s original intention is not seeking the self-centered luck and property but instilling will of participation with virtue of heaven[天德] in it’s participants. King Sukjong and King Yeongjo had made much of personally carrying out rituals in Jongmyo-shrine[宗廟], Portrait-shrine[眞殿] and tombs of state ancestors, because that rituals were intended for the edification of the people’s reminding of their root saviors[報本]. Through the rituals in Daebo altar[大報壇], Seonmu shrine[宣武祠] and Gwan-wang shrine[關王廟], governors of Joseon want to make sure that there is more important and right value[義理] beyond the repressive supremacy.

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