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Understanding and Research on the Changes in Funeral Folklore in the Early Modern Era -Focusing on Hajae-diaries and records of foreigners-

  • Industry Promotion Research
  • Abbr : IPR
  • 2025, 10(1), pp.243-254
  • DOI : 10.21186/IPR.2025.10.1.243
  • Publisher : Industrial Promotion Institute
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : January 7, 2025
  • Accepted : January 17, 2025
  • Published : January 31, 2025

Chul-Young Lee 1

1한국연구재단

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ABSTRACT

This discussion connects the understanding of mourning rituals in the early modern period with subsequent changes in laws and institutions, and provides important hints for examining changes in the public's perception and practice of rituals. To this end, I attempted to investigate the process of practicing rituals in the civilian world and changes in customary rituals, focusing on the ``HaJae Diary'' and articles on Western Europeans' visits to Korea in the early modern period.. An analysis of the "HaJae Diary" reveals that there is a normal type of funeral for five days or more for the parents' generation, a type of three to four day funeral for women in the household and unmarried children, and a type that focuses on death due to illness. It was possible to classify the funerals into the 1- to 2-day funeral types described in . Articles related to common rituals that appeared in Korean records written by foreigners indicate that ``mourning rituals'' was a very important ritual for Koreans at the time, and it was carried out with ``funeral methods'' centered on burial, but ``mourning'' was a three-year long ``mourning ceremony.'' This shows that there were negative effects such as paying huge costs due to the ``. However, discussions of mourning practices indicate that the schedule for popular mourning ceremonies typically ranged from three to nine days. Through this, it seems that these schedule-based procedures were recognized as important procedures for subsequent changes in mourning rituals in the modern period and for the progression of rituals in modern mourning ceremonies.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.