Younggukin

2015년 5월 28일 목요일

The Food of Harmony, Tangpyeongchae

Do you know this colorful food?

Its name is 'Tangpyeongchae'!

Seemingly, It is just "Food" but It has value of "Harmony."

It was made by King Yeong-jo, the 21st king of Josun Dynasty.

At that time in Josun, there were 4 parties - Buk-in, Nam-in, Dong-in, Seo-in - being antagonistic to each other.

King Yeong-jo realized necessity of concord between the parties to govern the country peacefully.

So he carried out a Tangpyeong policy emphasizing balanced appointment from each parties.

The food Tangpyeongchae was a part of policy.

Tangpyeongchae is the food eating evenly mixed 4 ingredients.

These are 4 ingrdients.

Black, roasted laver, represents Buk-in.

Red, fried beef, represents Nam-in.

Blue, dropwort, represents Dong-in.

White, mung-bean jelly, represents Seo-in.

Just as 4 ingredients are mixed together and make one flavor and color, Tangpyeongchae was King Yeong-jo's effort to achieve the peace in politics.

# How to make it?

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editor, Kim so-hyung

Dure : The traditional communal labor organization

You'll probably listen to Korea's famous culture like Taekwondo and Kimchi.

But you have never heard of Dure.

Dure was communal labor organization and it was established to cooperate with each other and inspect a village.

The main agent who built the Dure is ordinary person.

Dure was usually organized in small scale, but sometime it was built large scale organization which had members all of villagers.

There were various types which went by gender,generation, and area. so each had different purpose and occupation.

When they completed the works, they threw a party.
The most wealthy family provide food and beverage and they play Nong-ak to forget the pain of hard work and strengthen the unity.

Nong-ak is a song performed by farmers. It is also worked as work songs which kill pain, encourage each other and develop cooperative spirit.
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Editor Da soul-Jeong

2015년 5월 26일 화요일

What Koreans Do In Dan-O ? : i will let you know

Dano is the fifth day of the fifth month of the year according to the lunar calendar.
we, koreans did wash our hair by 'changpo-water' , which is water infused with sweet flags.

also we enjoyed swing running and mans did 'ssireum' , which is sport that two mans who holds thigh band try to beat each other.

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there are two famous foods in Dan- o.
one is rice cake made by a kind of marsh plants, and second is fruit salad mixed with cherry.
especially, cherry is so in a season about the Dan-o that many people enjoyed it .

lee ye joo

The korean traditional clothes : Hanbok

Hanbok is the traditional dress of Korea. Its straight lines and slight curves are beautiful and harmony, especially women's clothes have various designs and they're really colorful.
Basically, men's consist of jeogori which is like shirts and pants, and women's consist of jeogori and skirt. And when they go out, men wore Durumagi and women wore Jangot or Sseugaechima.

The woman in the picture (Shin Yun-bok, 年少踏靑) wears Jangot.

The woman in the picture (Shin Yun-bok, 月下情人) wears Sseugaechima.

Jangot and Sseugaechima looks similar, but they're different clothes. Jangot was the clothes which ordinary people wear and Sseugaechima was for the upper classes woman. Because of the social atmosphere due to the Confucian, woman have to wear these when they go out. However, over times, these clothes's distinction was disappeared, and women can go around without these.

Nowdays, people wear it in traditional holiday, such as New Year's Day or Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving Day). So when people see someone who wears Hanbok in usual day, they think that he or she has something special or see them strange. But, recently, improved Hanbok for easy to living has produced a lot, as well as colorful clothes. They feel comfortable to wear and look also good.

life hanbok (http://www.leesle.com/)

I think people's perception will be better .

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editor, Kim su hyeon.

2015년 5월 25일 월요일

A Well-known Korean Folk Play : Neolttwigi (Korean seesaw)

A well-known Korean folk play : Neolttwigi

(Korean seesaw)

Jumping game similar to see-sawing

Neolttwigi is one of the famous Korean folk play. The people who do not kow well about Neolttwigi can understand the play easily if they come up with seesaw. Neolttwigi is jumping game similar to seesaw so it doesn't matter to name it seesaw. If you visit Korean folk village, you're be able to find seesaw performance which is played around the audience. You will see two of the men who are skilled with high technic jump high up into the air. Let's find out all the things about seesaw which is attractive and splendid folk play of Korea.

<What is Neolttwigi (seesaw) & How to play>
Seesaw is Korean representative folk play and played by women on New Year's day of Dano, like famous holidays. It is easy to understand how to play but it's not just simple performance to all the people. First, roll up the straw mat and put it under the central plank. And then, two people stand respectively at both ends of the plank. If a person on the one side of plank jumps to the height of the sky, the other person of the opposite also jumps high with the same speed. It is the play that two people take run by turns and it's repeated constantly.

<Origin>
There is no apparent and doubtless orign of seesaw but it has been reported ; women played active and vigorous actions of exercise in Koryo Dynasty, considering it, Seesawimg may be started in Koryo Dynasty. Because the ancient women had confined life in a fenced-in place, they felt keenly the necessity of seeing the out of the world through jumping high.

Seeing fancy performance, we may feel and find the same thing with circus. If you see the person who is dexterous in performing seesaw and enjoy that powerful and active performance, you can also get nice feeling from seesawing.

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editor, kim ga-min

korea's traditional Confucianism Culture !

korea's lifestyle has a lot to do with confucianism culture
for example, early morning childrens had to go to parent's room and say "good morning" to their parents.

and there are term 'Bulgamhwesang' . It means childrens have to take care of themselves well for their parents,
also, 'ipsinyangmyeong' means that children succeed and promulgate their own names to world

In the past, most koreans consisted of big family because of impact on confucianism culture.
and because our blood relation is deep seated to koreans mind , parents sacrifice their lives for childrens education and success and so on.

However, nowadays koreans strengten self-centeredness a lot.
because of these sense alterations, old generations and new generations evoke a collsion of sentiments.
so in the days of diversity, our mission is to try to understand each other and acknowledge other values.

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