This study is deep sematical investigation about tie kinds & the shapes of the ornaments for men used in the end of Chosun (about from 1700 to 1850) through the genre pictures and the other pictures kept in national museum From this study. we can get ...
This study is deep sematical investigation about tie kinds & the shapes of the ornaments for men used in the end of Chosun (about from 1700 to 1850) through the genre pictures and the other pictures kept in national museum From this study. we can get the esthetic sense and esthetic symbol of the people those who lived in that time. Wearing ornaments for everyday life was not governed by nation power but by social customs. And these can be divided by these kinds of series, i. e., Libja, Keon, Sushik, Libshik, Dae and Hae, etc. Ⅰ am dealing its shapes, materials, way of use in Section Ⅲ. Section Ⅳ is a symbolic investigation for those ornaments in which we can see the times, the culture, the customs and the way of thinking.
Most of ornaments used in the end of Chosun didn't aim purely to decorate, instead, the people of that times added some kinds of decoration sense to the object having practical and functional propensity and through this procedure, they got the esthetical satisfaction. As its example, there is Libja, Keon and Dushik..Libshik (Mangkeon, Tangkeon, Donggot, Pungiam, Kwanja, etc). In these kinds of decoration for head. its shapes and wearing figures formed everyday life style of those days and showed us their Confucian totalitarian mind. As the Confucian ideas came to be whole social basic thinking, the shapes, the kinds, and the print of ornaments discriminated between upper and lower class. In addition to that, because that period was consisted of each social class, it occurred variously that a phenomenon of using high-quality and expensive raw materials for higher class. There were Hoeja and Kwanja which divided the materials up to 'Pum' class, and also were Pungjam and Ibyoung which indicated the level of class with the way of use in raw materials. Therefore, through these ornaments, we can see the fact that these kinds of ornaments played the symbolic role that showed and indicated the promotion in class 'Sunbi, scholar', In the end of Chosun, lower class who made big fortune by doing practical science, started to mimick the upper class ornaments. So, upper class, in order to defend this kind of propensity and to differenciate from lower class, started to effort to have and keep their own ornaments. Those efforts were resulted in the various kinds of shapes of ornaments. Its representative example is the change of the shapes in 'Kat'. Through the shapes and the print of the ornaments which had symbolic meaning, i.e. 'Ui, a symbolic thing or meaning earned by experience', 'Sadaebu, the man of noble birth' wanted to show symbolically their mental desire of hope. In the shape of Kwanja or at the edge of Heuklib and in the print of some part of Yangtae, etc. we can see these ornaments having 'Ui'.