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  • 2000.9.20
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    Nongbauksi is a ritual for rain that is held in various villages including Jewon-myeon as well as nearby villages, focusing on Eojae Village in Burimyeon. If rice planting is not done because it is not raining until the summer solstice passes, the villagers are very worried and have a rain ritual to solve the drought.

    If natural disasters are not solved by human power, the ritual of rain is held as part of the community's collective Consciousness to solve them through transcendent beings or various sorcery. The rain ritual is a way of living in a community where everyone in the village tries to overcome the difficulties of reality by solving the psychological conflicts that have accumulated because it does not rain and by preventing or reducing the impact of broken living rhythms.

    The rain system is generally attended by wives in their 30s and older, with men excluded. Men must carry the necessary load for the performance and leave the place. Only women sing Nongbau's songs in a melody and sound, and enter the water of the valley below Nongbau, play with their naked bodies, and end the show, which is so auspicious that the sky gives rain.
  • 1989.12.29
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    Jangseungje is a folk belief that has been handed down since the Baekje Dynasty. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Jangseungje is a production ritual to pray for the well-being and prosperity of the village by combining male and female Jangseung.

    Jangseungje, which was started as a result of the fact that the terrain of Tancheon was facing Seongribong Peak and the sound chamber, was established as a folk game and folk game for 400 years.

    The Tancheon jangseungje started with Nongak on the 7th day of the first lunar month, and the villagers are prohibited from cheating until the 15th of this year. The valley of the village is divided into grooms in the east and brides in the west. On the fifteenth of lunar January, the village begins with a gisebae in the middle of the village.

    While playing around the farming tools, when the bride makes four bows in front of the priest and the bride makes two bows, they tie silk in the groom's village. When it gets dark, the wedding ceremony of Jangseung is held at Donggu Bridge in time for Nongak, and the bride and groom are tied together with colorful bejazzi and separated.

    When the Hapgung ritual is over and the residents go back to their villages, they shoot three rounds of blisters in the sense of chasing diseases and bad luck, and in the eastern village, they run ssireum and in the western village, they pick a general, and gather again to play all night long.

    The Tancheon Jangseung Festival in Gongju expresses the Hapgung Palace of Jangseung and strengthens the solidarity of the village, which is characterized by a combination of religious Consciousness and folk games. Park Young-hyuk from Tancheon is currently being passed down.
  • 1997.5.15
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    Water service agents are also called incarnation agents or water supplements. Suncheon Gusan Water Service Festival has the following origins.

    Oseongsan Mountain in this neighborhood covers the rising sun, forming the direction of fire or the shape of fire, which is why fires frequently occurred. In order to suppress the energy of fire, the village held a water festival at sunset on the fifteenth of lunar January.

    The process of water-making is to first place ducks on a six-meter pole to prevent the fire from blowing in the east, lay yellow soil around the piers and priests set toward the east, and clean them with gold strings.

    At 5 p.m. on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the memorial service will be held in a Confucian ceremony after offering pig heads, five kinds of fruits, grapes, and rice.

    What is unique is that the ritual called 'water-viewing' is performed to mark the amount of water filled in a jar buried under the ground during last year's water service. In other words, if the amount of water is reduced a lot, it will rain a lot that year, and if it is reduced a lot, there will be a drought.

    When the water supply system is over, go to the baggage counter and carry out the water service. Then, the "Moon House Burning" play, which is called the after grass, continues, and the Gusan Water Festival ends with the end of the village "Wildang Bapgi."

    Currently, the Suncheon Gusan Water Conservation Society has formed and is striving to win the victory.
  • 1999.7.1
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    General Nam Yi was born in 1441 (the 23rd year of King Sejong's reign), passed the military service at the age of 17, defeated Yi Si-ae's orchids and Yeo Jin-jok at the age of 26, but was beheaded at the young age of 27 due to Yu Ja-gwang's slander. The Nami General Military Party (NAMI) is a ritual held every year after building a shrine about 300 years ago to console the general's spirit and honor his loyalty, feeling sorry for the loss of his life due to the dew of his prison sentence. On October 1, the festival was held to celebrate the eve of the festival, and residents were relieved of their worries, worries, and well-being, which naturally cemented the local folk religion.

    When Nami General's Sadang Festival begins, geolippae visit each house with Nongak and pay for the rite. Rather than simply a geolip of a nongak band, it is a religious ritual that corresponds to village dolgigut, in which a shaman participates to pray for each house. In the past, Danggut used to serve flowers as a ritual for spirits that brought them to the main hall, but now it has developed into a flower lantern event, marching from the Dangjip in Sancheon-dong to the shrine and holding a ritual at the shrine. The Nami General Military Party is held as a ritual ceremony in accordance with the ritual music of musicians, followed by a shaman rite, which is similar in form to the Gangneung Danoje Festival and the Eunsan Byeolsinje Festival. However, the general procession is actually equivalent to a journey to the village of God by taking a walk around the village with a new flower.

    In the midst of the disappearance of village ritual in modern times, the Sadang Festival in Nami-gun is meaningful in that it preserves its original appearance, and it has become a festive village ritual with active cooperation and participation from residents.

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  • 1971.8.26
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    Inspiration is a high-pitched word for the goblin, the Jeju dialect of the goblin. Yeonggam Nori is a type of play-gut among the shamanic rituals in Jeju Island, which is also a mask play for the goblin god, and is performed to wish for many fish to be caught or to recover from the disease.

    Yeonggam Nori is held at night after holding a memorial service in the yard. On top of the ancestral rites table, there are dishes enjoyed by the god of inspiration, such as pig head, sorghum rice cake, and soju. When one person calls the spirit after announcing the time and reason of the rite to the spirit god and the names of the participants, two shamans dressed as paper goblins, old straw shoes, old gat and gombangdae come in. Yeonggamsin is treated to sacrificial food by making a fuss over humorous conversation and frivolous behavior. At this time, a sick person sits in the yard and walks around the patient's body with a mat. After Pudak Street is over, straw boats carrying offerings are sent to sea.

    This play offers a glimpse of the people's Consciousness in that it is a comprehensive art festival full of satire and humor, and is also valuable as a masquerade to find the starting point of the play.