earticle

영어

This paper studied a hazing ritual held by a central government office of late Joseonperiod, and Seonjeongwangyehoedo(宣傳官契會圖), a painting of a hazing ritual of royal fanfare musicians. A hazing ritual was a rite of passage for a new official to be admitted as a formal member. A compulsory item for the ritual was the painting which draws the scene of that specific ritual. The fact that the gathering of the same office members mostly took the form of a hazing ritual was proved by Seonjeongwangyehoedo(宣傳 官契會圖). Five paintings of 18th Century Seonjeongwangyehoedo(宣傳官契會圖) are foundtoday. A Seonjeongwangyehoedo(宣傳官契會圖) painted between 1778 to 1789 depictsthe gathering around the riverside and the deck of the Han river and Noryangjin(鷺梁津). After a hazing ritual was banned, once a pleasure-giving gathering of royal musicians was depicted as more abstained meeting around the river side. This paper unveiled the hidden custom behind the hazing ritual of royal musicians of late Joseon through its painting, and showed that the hazing ritual was the motivation behind the Seonjeongwangyehoedo(宣傳官契會圖). An outcome of this paper is that it inquired into the actual presence of royal fanfare musicians through the custom of a hazing ritual and a painting describing it.