Gangneung Sacheonhapyeongdapgyo Folk Game

Hapyeong-ri is a traditional folk village where the Hapyeong Nongak Troupe, a branch of Gangneung Nongak, is formed and active. The Hapyeong Dapgyo Nori ('bridge-treading play') is an event held every year on Jomsangnal (the sixth day of the second lunar month), on which residents tread the bridge to pray for a bountiful harvest and for peace. Jomsangnal was a day for divining the year's harvest by the distance between the moon and the jomsaengi stars (a small cluster of stars, the 'Pleiades', among the twenty-eight constellations of the celestial sphere). On Jomsangnal the people of Hapyeong-ri would hold a feast and make torches, and once it grew dark they would go as far as the bridge at Sacheonjin-ri, where they are also said to have held a game of bridge-snatching. On the bridge a village elder would serve as ritual officiant and hold a rite praying to Heaven for a bountiful harvest; the villagers would then carry their torches back to the village hall, burn them all together in the yard, and drink and play in the area late into the night, resolving on a vigorous fresh start to the year.

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Where it is

Region

Gangneung, Gangwon

Designation

Provincial Intangible Heritage · 시도무형유산