Book: Manual Of The Four Rites (Sarye Pyeollam)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: "Postscript to vol. 1 dated 1844 Book, 4 vols.; woodblock-printed paper. This is a complete opus in Chinese divided into four double-page, thread-bound volumes. These volumes contain unpaginated subsections dealing with sarye or "four rites": coming of age, wedding, funeral and ancestor worship. A table of contents and introductory remarks appear at the beginning of the first volume and the 1844 postscript by Jo Inyeong (1782-1850) appears at the end of the last volume. Hough believed this compendium to be a Korean version of a Chinese work, "the great Chinese handbook of etiquette."Actually, Sarye pyeollam was compiled by a Korean Confucian scholar, Yi Jae (1680-1746) in the early eighteenth century (Deuchler, 1977: 5). It was published in 1844 by Yi Jae's descendant, Yi Gwang-jeong (also known as Yi Hwi-jeong, 1760-?), and has served as the main text for most Korean families for these rites. Bernadou Field Notes 21 "Manual of the Four Rites or sa-ryei-pyellam [Sarye pyeollam]. Description of the ceremonies of (l) assuming the "Koun" or cap, indicating entrance into the state of manhood; (2) marriage, Also giving (3) the order and method of procedure at death and burial; and (4) the same at the offering of sacrifices to the dead." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 487; Bernadou Field Notes 21" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 142]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Seoul, South Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016970
label: USNM Number
content: E77124-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 30.8 cm
label: Width
content: 21 cm