Gyeolseongnongyo

Nongyo are songs sung while working in the fields or paddies to forget fatigue and raise efficiency; also called field songs or farming songs. As a form of folk song, they are sung individually or communally and vary from region to region. Gyeolseongnongyo developed markedly as agrarian culture flourished among people who settled along the Geumgokcheon Stream basin. Its repertoire consists of a rite to the dragon god, rice transplanting, geonjaengi, ttukmaegi, asimaegi (first weeding), rest breaks, and manmul (final weeding), among other stages. "Eoreolleolleol-sangsari," a rice-transplanting song, and "Eolkadeongeori," a weeding song also known as a dure-sori (communal work song), originated in this region. Gyeolseongnongyo is a purely native Korean melody that has, in recent years, been reconstructed to recreate the appearance of the old farming songs and of dure, organisations formed for communal work. Choi Yang-seop, a skills holder living in Hongseong, is carrying on its tradition.

AI Translation

Where it is

Region

Hongseong, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Intangible Heritage · 시도무형유산