This is the paper which were planned to search regional characteristics of women culture in Chosun Dynasty and is for considering women`s lives and culture of Eunjin Song family and furthermore in Chungcheong province. Examining appellations and ways ...
This is the paper which were planned to search regional characteristics of women culture in Chosun Dynasty and is for considering women`s lives and culture of Eunjin Song family and furthermore in Chungcheong province. Examining appellations and ways of speaking, Song Junkil`s family mostly made their daughter`s name using Chinese characters. And they gave more preference to their daughters-in-law succeeding to the family than their daughters by calling their daughters-in-law the title of `-daek` but calling their daughters the title of `-jib` or `-sil`. And elders in the husband`s family used `hage-che(하게체)` and `hao-che(하오체)` to younger daughters-in- law or sisters-in-law and husbands used them to their wives, and elder brothers-in-law respected their sisters-in-law by using `-si(시)-` and husbands also respected their wives by using it. Examining the contents of the letters, daughters-in-law of Song family fulfilled their heavy duties of guest reception and holding memorial services of their ancestors while running the big housekeeping as daughters-in-law of a big family. However, most daughters-in-law leaves outer businesses such as production and income to the head of the house except Mrs. Andong-Kim who is a wife of Song Yohwa. And they didn`t get involved in the management or increase of the wealth of her family. So they got food, groceries, money and so on from their fathers-in-law or husbands and reported breakdown of the expenses. Meanwhile, Mrs. Anjeong-Na(안정 나씨) got their son and daughter-in-law away from each other and cruelly pressed their grandson of tween in order to make them to study hard. And Mrs. Andong-Kim(안동 김씨) sent a poem to another man who is the governor of Samsan-goon in order to borrow some food. Mrs. Yeohung-Min(여흥 민씨) talked over government posts and domok(도목) of her relative with her father-in-law. These were very unusual things at that time.