주거민속으로서 한ㆍ중 대문(大門)의 비교

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

People have been seeking the ways to protect themselves from evil spirits and impurities in daily lives by accepting five fortunes. Based on the premise, ‘Ghost fears what human fears’, with symbolic figures with scary eyes or many eyes drawn on the front gate, they blocked the ghost entering their house. Also with the symbolic figures with scary noise, they turned the evil spirits out of doors, and the animal figures with sharp teeth, claws and stings, they tried to make the ghost suffer in their sense of touch.
Symbolic figures with strong and intolerable odor were used to fear the nose of ghosts, and with spicy and pungent tasting features, they stopped the approaches of the ghost. This means that people tried to expel the demon by having them face the element which human is afraid of in their 5 senses; visual, auditory, olfactory, taste, tactile. The common idea about the front gate in Korea and China is that the gate is compared to the face of human, and it was considered wrong to sit on the doorsill, Also there existed the ‘Gate for the Ghost’, and the gate was built based on the Pungsu theory as it's very important in the household. There also exists the commonness between China and Korea such as the symbolic objects hung on the door to wish the fortune and to remove the demon as well as the differences.
In case of animal, people don't put the turtle or dried pollack on the threshold in China, but animals like frog, monkey, lamb, horse, scorpion are not found in Korea unlike China, Likewise, while kalopanax tree are not found in China, bamboo, ginger, pumpkin, radish, sesame, sugar cane, citron, cactus trees are not found in Korea. But what is common between Korea and China is that they both used the plants with needles such as kalopanax and cactus as a way to exorcise the demons. Regarding the objects, while Chinese didn't hang the cow's nose ring and meshwork ladle on the front gate, it's not found in Korea the objects like mirror, red strings, scissor, chopstick, bow, mask, etc. These differences are also found in tattoo as it has various tattoos depending on its regions and ethnic groups in China, it exists no longer in Korea.