The expression of the old East Asian funeral art

Abstract

This thesis studied the features of the expression which appeared in the old East Asian funeral art around the ornamental carving of ston and the mural.<BR> The study result shows that in the case of the funeral art which appears on the Chinese mural, the material and size of the first half in the Han(漢) dynasty is too small compared with that of the latter half in the Han dynasty. That is, it seems that the mural appeared clearly before and after 100 B.C. and increased so much in the late in the Han dynasty<BR> The funeral conception of the Han dynasty consists of the heavenly world, the a legendary wizard world, the real world and the underground world. It looks like that the boarding onto the legendary wizard world was regarded to be more important than to the heavenly world. So in the grave mural and the ston ancestral shrine , the diagram relating to the legendary wizard world was treated more importantly. It appeared that this concept had been kept since then and affected the grave mural of Goguryeo(高句麗).<BR> But the content and expression of diagram contained the Chinese coloring strongly but accepted it selectively. And when it came to the 7th century, the more independent type appeared. Especially the jiban area and Pyongyang area were developed respectively. But as it came near to the end of the 5th century, the jiban style expression was added to that of Pyongyang and the compromised type was being made. That is, Goguryeo had digested the imported culture in its own way and come to create the expression of Pan-Goguryeo funeral art around Pyongyang.