东亚内韩国人生礼仪的普遍性和固有性

本文的目的在于考察韩国人生礼仪的东亚普遍性和固有性。分析的基础是东亚儒教文化圈，因而儒教式冠婚丧祭就是人生礼仪的普遍性。因为普遍性和固有性是相对的，站在西方的立场上看，东亚的普遍性也可以是固有性，也可能变做相反的逻辑。韩国人生礼仪的东亚普遍性和东亚其他民族、国家一样，都在于接受冠丧祭的传统。在韩国人生礼仪的固有性方面，首先是东亚儒教式冠婚丧祭的态保存最为完整。其次是根据韩国固有的文化对儒教式人生礼仪进行改造。婚形最后是固有信仰和儒教式冠婚丧祭相互融合。

The East Asian Universality and Peculiarity of Korean Rites of Passage

This paper is trying to look into the East Asian universality and peculiarity of Rites of Passage.The analytical method is that since East Asia is being sit in the middle of the Confucian culture,the four ceremonial occasions such as the one of coming-of-age,the one of marriage,the one of funeral and the one of ancestral worship are conceived as universality of Rites of Passage. However,the universality and peculiarity can be relative in nature.The East Asian universality of Rites of Passage has in common with other ethnics or countries is that Koreans accept the tradition of the four ceremonial occasions as well. On the contrary,there are three unique characteristics which are the peculiarity of Korean Rites of Passage has;the first one is that Korea is the only place where the Confucian four ceremonial occasions are remained as a fully intact form.The second one is that the Confucian Rites of Passage were being accepted and fit into the Korean culture.In other words,the Confucian Rites of Passage were transformed and emerged into the Korean culture.The third one is that harmonizing folk beliefs and myth with the Confucian Rites of Passage strongly shows Korean peculiarity.