A Study of Mourning Culture

상례문화에 관한 연구

The purpose of this study is to investigate the Mourning Culture. In this study, methods such as field work, depth interviews and open-ended descriptions were employed to interpret their mourning culture. The results are as follows. This study classifies Mourning Culture by its filial piety, shroud, mourning garments and cremation. The death in the mourning have relation to filial piety. People began preparing their shroud after their 70th birthday anniversary. To keep prepared shroud naphthalene and leaf tobacco were placed inside. And to keep prepared shroud a paulownia tree box was used. The cloths of the shroud were mostly all Sambe(大麻). The color was light color center upon the white color and 素色. Terms of the shroud were different in each region. The kind of the mourning garments were various. The Cognition of the cremation was considerably affirmative.