魏晉교체기 관리의 喪禮와 公除

Abstract

This study approached the subject of connection between ceremony(禮) and law, especially the legalization of mourning ceremony, in the age of Wei- Jin(魏晉) dynasties. The following is a summary.BR Traditionally the confucian classics stated that the children should be mourning for three years for their parents wearing a mourning dress, and prohibited them from taking off the mourning clothes before the funeral of the dead. But the war and disunion had the collecting bodies impossible, thus the authorities issued an imperial order Dongguan-gushi(東關故事) in 253, allowed to carry out the three-year mourning without the body. On the one hand, government officials had to return to their official affairs after removal of mourning in a hundred days in Wei(魏) dynasty.BR The removal of mourning for official affairs before expiration of the period of mourning was termed ‘gōngchú(公除)’ in Western Jin(西晉), but the rules of ‘公除’ was only applied to royal family, while government officials had to leave public service(去官, 解官) and mourn for three years, more precisely for 25(27) months. However, officials could return to official affairs after bereavement leave, that is funeral holidays from one month to 7days, depending on the ties of kinship for their relatives except parents.BR Confucian regulations about mourning ceremony had been codified in laws of state. That implied officials was placed under restraint, because the authorities forced officials by law to obey the mourning regulations specified on li(禮), and violation of regulations was followed by legal punishment. These demonstrate the process of joining mourning ceremony to laws.