March 28, 2024
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Korean Folk Dance “Yonbaek Peasant Dance”

Date: 20/08/2019 | Source: Uriminzokkiri (En) | Read original version at source

The intelligent and resourceful Korean people created and developed their national culture in a long historical course and produced lots of dance pieces in the process of labour.

Among them is folk dance called “Yonbaek Peasant Dance” which was created in the area of Yonbaek Plain in South Hwanghae Province. Peasants in the area perfomed dances as a means of expressing their wish for a good crop and they evolved into the peasant dance and have been handed down to date. The plain is a granary of the country, and the dance of the area attained a high level of development as compared to other areas and accordingly developed into folk dance representing Korean peasant dance.

The movements and composition of the dance which is major means of representation are diverse. They include group dance movements showing a variety of working processes such as rice-planting, weeding, harvesting and threshing, the movements performed to the tune of lifting farm music played with percussion instruments and the movements of turning round decorative tassels on cap combined with small drum beating.

Men wear paji and jogori that are traditional Korean trousers and jacket, while women wear chima and jogori that are also traditional women’s wear, sleeveless jacket, cowl, tassel tuck and hat during the dance.

Tassel dance is the climax of the peasant dance.

The decorative tassels are the copy of the decorations on the soldier’s hat in the period of feudal Joson Dynasty.

The dancers flaunt various skills as they turn round the tassel measuring 12 fathoms of longer and the tassels turning to an upbeat national tune is a sight to behold.

There is a scene of turning round the 60-fathoms-long in the grand mass gymnastics and artistic performance “The Land of the People” which is now running on creating a great sensation.

The dance shows the optimistic life and sentiment of the Korean people and the features of the Korean peasant dance that is soft, elegant and vigorous, and it is widely known throughout the world.

“Yonbaek Peasant Dance” is on the list of national intangible cultural heritage.

It is inherited and developed as traditional peasant dance favoured by the people as it is put on stage as artistic work.

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