The purpose of this study is to analyze the illustrations related to traditional sacrificial rituals
in korean moral education textbooks for elementary school. through the analysis this study is
to provide the upright basis for traditional sacrificial rituals education(傳統祭禮敎育),
furthermore is to act as a guide in forming or selecting the illustrations related to traditional
sacrificial rituals in revising the curriculum henceforth.
The standards of the analysis are as following : the structure and content of an ancestral
tablet(位牌), the tool used for sacrificial rites(祭祀器具), the usage in arranging the dishes of
food needed in the sacrificial service(祭羞陳設方式), the etiquette direction(禮節方位), the place
of honor․the down seat and the seat arrangement related to the etiquette direction(禮節方位,
上․下席, 座席配置), the procedure of sacrificial rites(祭祀 節次), how to put on traditional
korean clothes(傳統韓服着用法), how to make a traditional korean bow(傳統拜禮法).
As a result of this analysis, findings are such as follows ; ①the arranging the dishes of food
needed in the sacrificial service(祭羞陳設) is contradictory to the etiquette direction and the
institutionalized usage, ②men who participate in the traditional sacrificial rituals do not put on
traditional korean overcoat, ③the motion to make a traditional korean bow is incorrect, ④the
attitude men and women take position in the traditional sacrificial rituals is infelicitous, ⑤the
place men and women who participate in the traditional sacrificial rituals hold is contradictory
to the etiquette direction, ⑥the introduction to a traditional korean bow made in the traditional
sacrificial rituals is incorrect, ⑦the indifference to the rationale of an ancestral tablet․the
structure of an ancestral tablet․the content of an ancestral tablet, ⑧the ignorance to the
procedure of sacrificial rites, traditional sacrificial rituals that only men participate in, the
putting on winter clothes and muffler in the traditional sacrificial rituals.
The suggestions that henceforth should be considered in forming and selecting the
illustrations related to traditional sacrificial rituals as a material to utilize in elementary school
are as follows. first, the illustrations should be formed and selected on the basis of systematical
and correct verification. second, considering the educational context, not the illustrations
abstractly described but the illustrations realistically described should be introduced. only on
the basis of this, I think that it will be opened a new horizon of traditional sacrificial rituals
education in the elementary school.