사자(獅子)춤에 나타난 상징성(象徵性) = A Study on the Symbolic Nature of Lion Dance

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was first started from a wish to put m order the transitional processes of Lion Dance upon tracing it to its origin, then, again, to study what symbolic expressions it has brought forth when entering into the royal court, and then finally, to inquire into the religions and ideological symbolic nature of it that would have been tried to be represented by some imitation of the figurative characteristic and property unique to the animal. Findings from the study are . it remains as a form of folk dance m a wide range that may include more than the Asian regions, m our country, the lion dance that was conventional m India was Imported via China m the Age of Three Kingdoms to be Koreanized, and to be changed, according to the transitions of the times, finally into a form of the dance that was played m the royal court once m the last period of the Yi dynasty . and, the forms of it that have survived up to the present may include the Chouchimadang of Hawhaipyolsingud, Pukchung Lion Play, Mask Dance of the form of the West Sea, Ohkwangdai of the form of the Youngnam, and the Lion Kwachang as a kind out of domination. The religions symbolic nature of Lion Dance may be seen possessing several modes chiefly as those of such symbolism that would expel evil and get out disaster , more concretly, first, the case of the lion itself becomes to be defied to get out of the objects which are generally imagined as symbols of the human disasters, second, the case of the lion appears to be the symbol of the human disarter and to be killed by a hunter who is human, hence representing a farming ceremonial characteristic of a primitive form that prays for a good harvest While, meanings about the directions of colors are suggested m the form of Lion Dance that entered to the royal court as miscellaneous drama the east is seen, in the sense of folk color, blue, and the west is dark blue-it is also seen in the literary that it has been changed in conformity to the variation of the times In the future, it is considered, more studies upon the symbolism of the movement and Sawi of Lion Dance and upon other dances that imitate animals other than the lion would be required