고려~조선시기의 황재(蝗災) 인식과 대응 = Perception and Response of Locust Plaguesin the Goryeo and Joseon Dynasties

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Damage due to locusts(蝗蟲) were treated as a serious natural disaster with flood and drought disasters in East Asia during the pre-modern period. A lot of locust plague cases were recorded in history books and there were the cases that damages were severe as they led to famine.
This paper studied perception and response of locust plagues in Korean history in the 10th to 19th centuries. First, locusts’ identity in historical records were examined by dividing them into cases from viewpoints of broad and narrow senses. There were a lot of cases that insects to harm crops and trees were commonly called locusts rather than standing for locusta migratoria to move in group and harm. Second, how perception of locust plagues is in the period of regarding the theory of mutual resonance between heaven and human beings(天人感應論) as important and what the causative factors were understood as were studied. Third, king’s feeling of awe and self-reflection(恐懼修省) and many kinds of religious ceremonial methods implemented by responding to the occurrence of locust plagues were examined. And momentum, methods, and control skills which implemented policies to capture and kill locusts actively were studied.
Examining chronological changes, religious rituals of affliction(祈禳儀禮) including Buddhism and Taoism decreased in the early Joseon Dynasty unlike the Goryeo Dynasty and instead, the change that the Po-je(酺祭, Pest-Preventive Ritual) was conducted and policies to capture and kill locusts which harm crops actively appeared. And as it was influenced by the Bibliographical Studies on the Natural Objects(名物考證學) or the Western Learning(西學) since the late 16th century, locusts and locust plagues got to be grasped by objective and concrete observations and experiences escaping from the theory of In-Yang(陰陽論) or mystical perception.