The Cultural Anthropological Analysis Of 〈Chunhyang〉

As one of the most three famous Korean classic folk novels, is as popular as and in Korean Peninsular. not only includes literature contents, but also accumulates abundant Korean cultural elements. Korean custom and deep-seated ethical consciousness are reflected in the text. It's doable to research the text according anthropologic methods because it represents the human relationship and cultural psychology of the latter part of Goseon Dynasty.At first, I analyse the indited process and edition of and makes sure the novel came into being in the 18^th century. The last edition of the novel was indited by many innominate people.The necessary precondition of completely unscrambling of is to understanding the hierarchy of Goseon Dynasty. Thereby, I research the hierarchy of Goseon Dynasty and the idiographic characters appeared in the novel. Goseon Dynasty strictly practiced the hierarchy and the nobleman was the most highest dominate class. They always absolutely monopolized the right in politics, economy, culture and the other aspects of society. Any member of one estate must abide by thelaw and behave himself. In order to carry through the hierarchy, Goseon Dynasty demarcated the distinction between all the people in high classes and low classes strictly according the consanguiniry and extraction. Goseon Dynasty also requested people must get married with the ones in the same classes in order to control the number and purity of the nobleman. This is the background of the novel . Just because of it, The love story of Chunhyang and Mengyong is fulling of frustrations and romance.Thirdly, I discuss the transition rites that appear in . Transition rites are one of the religion rites. It was come off when somebody will change his/her role in the society by a series of rites. There are two kinds of transition rites are touched on in . The first one is the procreate rites and a variety of specific procreate custom. The procreate custom including the taboo before birth, the prediction of the fetus' gender, the pray for safe birth and the taboo after birth. The second kind is wedding rite. The marriage regimes and wedding rites are both embodied in .Fourthly, I research the Korean Duanwu as one of the annually Calendrical rites in this paper. There are two depiction of Duanwu in . In the first place, 's mother prays for a baby and dreams about a fairy at Duanwu. In the next place, Chunhyang is riding on a swing when Mengyong meet with her at Duanwu for thefirst time. From the above, we can make a conclusion: Duanwu means the multiplication of life and energy of youngster for Korean.The content of is deeply influenced by Chinese literature and culture and the last part of my paper is analyzing the phenomenon. reflects the Chinese literary and cultural influence to Korean just as Chinese literary and cultural factor that appeared in the text and the influence of Confucianism to the regimes and etiquettes of Goseon Dynasty. In fact, the phenomenon reflects the diffusion of culture between China and Korean Peninsular.After absorbing and using for reference of Confucianism, Korea reconstructed and turned it into one part of their own nationality culture. The experience of Korea is revelatory for China and we should learn for how to preserving and developing our traditional culture from Korea.