Encyclopedia of Korean Seasonal Customs:Season

The Encyclopedia of Korean Seasonal Customs: Season is one part of the "Encyclopedia of Korean Seasonal Customs" within the Encyclopedia of Korean Folk Culture. The Encyclopedia of Korean Seasonal Customs was published in volumes divided into spring, summer, autumn, and winter, in accordance with the cyclical nature of seasonal customs across the four seasons. However, the first lunar month (jeongwol), corresponding to January in the lunar calendar, was published as a separate volume given that it is the period in which the greatest number of seasonal customs are observed. The encyclopedia is broadly divided into the lunar and solar calendars; within the lunar calendar, entries are categorized into fixed festival days such as Seol (Lunar New Year) and Daeboreum (the first full moon), seasonal divisions (jeolgi) such as Ipchun (Start of Spring) and Usu (Rain Water), as well as monthly observances and livelihood-related customs. It can be used like a conventional dictionary by looking up individual headwords, while the overall structure is also organically composed like a monograph. It is therefore effective both for looking up specific pieces of information and for researching the full scope of seasonal customs. Following the January volume as its inaugural publication, the spring, autumn, winter, and appendix and index volumes were subsequently published.

한국세시풍속사전:계절세시편(Encyclopedia of Korean Seasonal Customs:Season)은 한국민속대백과사전의 '한국세시풍속사전' 중 한 부분이다. 한국세시풍속사전은 사계절이 순환하는 세시풍속의 특성에 따라 봄·여름·가을·겨울로 구분되어 발간되었다. 그러나 음력 1월인 정월의 경우에는 세시풍속 가운데 가장 많은 풍속이 이루어지는 시기이므로 분권을 하였다. 이 사전은 크게 음력과 양력으로 구분되어있고, 음력은 설이나 대보름과 같은 정일, 입춘이나 우수와 같은 절기, 그리도 월내와 생업 등으로 구분하였다. 일반적인 사전처럼 표제어를 찾아가며 열람할 수도 있고, 단행본처럼 전체 체제가 유기적인 구성으로 되어 있다. 따라서 단편적인 내용을 찾는 것에서부터 정월 세시풍속의 전반을 연구하는데 있어서도 효율적이라고 할 수 있다. 『한국세시풍속사전』 정월편을 첫머리로 해서 봄편, 가을편, 겨울편, 부록 및 색인편이 출간되었다.