Wido Ttibaennori (Ttibae Boat Festival of Wido Island)

Wido Ttibaennori is a gut, or shamanic rite, performed to pray for the peace of the village and a bountiful catch, held every year in early January in Daeri village, Wido-myeon, Buan-gun. It takes its name from the ttibae, a straw boat set afloat during the Dragon King rite performed on the shore, and it is also known as Wondangje, since the rite is conducted at the wondang, a shrine built for making wishes. The ttibae is woven from reed grass, straw, and bush clover into a boat roughly 3 m long and 2 m wide; various offerings are placed inside it, along with seven straw effigies, a mast, and an anchor, giving it the full form of a boat. The rite proceeds from the wondang, where offerings are set out and a gut performed before the village's guardian deity, down into the village, around the village's mountain, and finally to the shore for the Dragon King rite — so that the ritual space runs continuously from mountain to village to sea. The gut is performed by a shaman whose role has been passed down within a single family for generations, and it proceeds through the following stages: a rite for the household guardian deity, a mountain spirit rite, a rite for the guest deities, an earth spirit rite, three village guardian-deity rites — for the wondang and main shrine deities, for the maiden deity, and for the general deity — followed by a banner rite and a gatekeeper rite. Accompanied by boat songs, drink, and dance, it is a local village festival that embodies the fishing community's faith and their hope for a large catch and for safety at sea.

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Where it is

Region

Buan, Jeonbuk

Designation

National Intangible Heritage · 국가무형유산