Why there are few paintings of traditional Korean ghosts

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(1)Korean monsters have very few painting artifacts. I didn’t draw them from the beginning. But most of them are in the hands of scholars who value Confucianism
(2)Of course, it’s burnt
(3)Compared to other countries with various images of ghost monsters
(4)There are not many pictures left in Korea
(5)Data screen Korean History Compilation Committee’s Annals of the Joseon Dynasty Homepage
(6)”We value Confucianism in the country
(7)in defeat of heresy
(8)I’ve already deleted the employee
(9)Taejong Silok Volume 24 Taejong July 29, 12th 12th, Appeal of the Saganwon on the issue of the third knight Naewondang Government Employees’ Revolution and the issue of the once-audit
(10)Because of the influence of Confucianism, folk beliefs are considered a lower class
(11)I asked for a rim and so on
(12)Joseon is the most Neo-Confucian country in Korean history, so it thoroughly kept away from the powerful and eliminated all of them. There was a folk belief unique to the Korean Peninsula, and it was no exception that the sacred site was burned and the stone statues were pushed to a cliff and destroyed
(13)Like these beheaded Buddha statues;;
(14)But fortunately, there are a few scholars who have collected and recorded stories, so the existence of the monster has not been completely wiped out
(15)However, it was recorded by a few people and many focused on destruction, so at the time of recording by a scholar who could not keep up with the speed of destruction, scholars in a group burn the Buddha statue, a painting, and the shrine is burned down by pushing the statue to a cliff, so it quickly disappeared
(16)a picture of a goblin
(17)a picture of a starfish
(18)a sea register with various monsters. Folding screen
(19)Fortunately, some of the paintings have been handed down to this day

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