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Tradition Revives on the Lunar New Year's Day
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- Park Hyunju
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- 2007-02-16
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Tradition Revives on the Lunar New Year’s Day
Celebrating the Lunar New Year holidays, the biggest festival days in Korea, the Cultural Heritage Administration holds diverse traditional events at palaces and royal tombs from February 17th to 19th.
Visitors in traditional Korean costume will be able to enter all the palaces and royal tombs free of charge during the three-day holidays, while National Palace Museum will be open to public for free only on the lunar New Year’s Day (February 18th). In addition, visitors to palaces and royal tombs will have the opportunities to participate in diverse traditional folk games such as neol ttwigi (seesaw jumping), jegi chagi (kicking a light object called “jegi” wrapped in paper or cloth), Yut nori (a board game played with wooden sticks), paengi chigi (top spinning) and tuho (arrow throwing).
As a traditional cultural event marking the coming new year, the mask dance drama “Bongsan talchum” (Important Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 17) will be performed in front of the Junghwamun Gate of Deoksugung Palace on the 18th. On the same day also, visitors to the Royal Shrine Jongmyo will get a free drink of sikhye, a traditional sweet desert drink made of malt and rice, whereas those visiting National Palace Museum will be presented with a bookmark with the design of irwolobongdo, a traditional drawing of sun, moon and five peaks, which was painted for the royal folding screens.
The Foundation for the Preservation of Cultural Properties has organized the reenactment of the Royal Guard Changing Ceremony and the Palace Door Opening & Closing Ceremony at the Geunjeongmun Gate and Heungnyemun Gate of Gyeongbokgung Palace. At the same venue, people can also dress in the guard’s costume and accessories.
These events will provide inspiring opportunities to experience and enjoy traditional Korean culture for Koreans and foreigners alike, visiting the palaces and royal tombs where one can sense the breath of Korean ancestors.
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Event
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Venue
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Content
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14:30-15:30
Feb. 18
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Junghwamun Gate,
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Lion dance from Bongsan talchum
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Taste “sikhye”
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09:00-15:00
Feb. 18
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Hayeonji Pond of Jongmyo
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Visitors can get a free drink of sikhye
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The calligrapher “Han seokbong”
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Feb. 18
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National Maritime Museum in Mokpo
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Reproducing the famous episode about the master calligrapher Han Seokbong, a parent slices cylindrical rice paste, while the child writes calligraphy. Participants are limited to 30 families.
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Free souvenir
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Feb. 17 – 19
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National Palace Museum
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“Irwolobongdo” bookmarks
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Exhibition
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Feb. 17 –19
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Exhibition Room,
Foundation for the Preservation of Cultural Properties
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Exhibition on the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Month “Eunsan byeolsinje” (village ritual; Important Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 9)
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Royal guard changing ceremony
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Feb. 17 –19
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Heungnyemun Gate &
Geunjeongmun Gate,
Gyeongbokgung Palace
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Simplified form of Royal Guard Changing Ceremony; dressing in the Guard’s costume
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Traditional folk games
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Feb. 17 –19
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Palaces & Royal Tombs; Hyeonchungsa Shrine in Asan; Chilbaekuichong Shrine in Geumsan; National Maritime Museum
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seesaw jumping, kicking a light object called jegi wrapped in paper or cloth, a board game played with wooden sticks, top spinning, arrow throwing
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