Ten longevity symbols painting is a painting containing the spirit of our nation. Condensation of each natural object considered as faith of our nation for a long time was painted in a canvas. The starting point of worship thought of the natural object can be found in China and the worship thought has affected our nation as well. In short, ten longevity symbols painting is the painting which includes the biggest faith of our nation, a desire for an eternal life.
However, treating ten longevity symbols painting only as the national spirit, ten longevity symbols painting can only be displayed in museums or be remembered to a few professionals. It is a miserable one from the perspective of modem social people living in the age of mass media. Therefore, consider an ideological background, historical tradition and symbolization of ten longevity symbols painting which includes our national spirit and thought in the canvas and I believe that it is a very meaningful work to search for developmental directions of culture contents through this cultural value of ten longevity symbols painting.
This paper also considers background of creation, symbolization and cultural value of ten longevity symbols painting meeting the demands of times and development of succession of traditional culture, and has a purpose on presenting directions of new culture contents.
This paper constitutes five chapters from chapter I to chapter V.
chapter I explains the purpose and method of research, chapter II explains the origin of ten longevity symbols painting from the ancient eastern concept of eternal life and earlier taoist expert and from Taoism, and considers how this thought has been accepted and developed in Korea.
ChapterIII sorts materials appearing in ten longevity symbols painting into animal, plant, and nature and examines the symbolization of each material, at the same time, investigates picturesque characters of ten longevity symbols painting. The materials appearing in ten longevity symbols painting are not limited into ten categories. A long life material is painted more or less depending on the painting. Therefore, this paper lemmatized 13 condensed materials into the plant kingdom, animal kingdom and natural world among generally drawn materials.
Chapter IV cites diversely developed culture contents as facts based on ideological foundation of ten longevity symbols painting of chapterII and III.
Chapter V sums up the contents of this paper and by developing ten longevity symbols painting and our traditional art into popular culture contents, it promotes to make more efforts on acquisition of cultural popularity meeting this age's request.