Anseong Namsadangpungmul Folk Game

Namsadangpae was a troupe of popular entertainers that emerged among the commoner class in the late Joseon period, a professional performing group that presented six skills together: pungmulnori (percussion band music), plate-spinning (beona), acrobatics (salpan), mask dance drama (deotboegi), tightrope walking (jultagi, known as eoreum) and puppet play (deolmi). Under the kkokdusoe (troupe leader) were four or five tteunsoe (section leaders), along with gayeol (skilled performers), ppiri (novices), jeoseungpae and deungjimkkun (porters), making up a troupe of forty to fifty people in total. Cheongnyongsa Temple, located in the mountains of Seoun-myeon, Anseong, became the home base of the Namsadangpae, and the origin of the Anseong Namsadangpae can be traced to the Buldanggol Sadangpae, which was supported by Cheongnyongsa Temple. The Anseong Namsadang Pungmulnori is organised with a yeonggi (spirit flag), a seonanggi (village guardian flag) and a hojeok (wind instrument), and its pungmul performers consist of samul (four percussion instruments), beokgu (hand-drum dancers) and mudong (child dancers). The pungmul rhythms are based on "Utdari garak," the rhythm style of the central-western region, employing a full range from vigorous to delicate and from slow to fast. The pangut (full-scale group performance) is made up of sequences such as Insagut (greeting gut), Dollimbeokgu, Gyeopdollimbeokgu, Dangsanmeollim, Beokgunollim (Yangsangchigi), Dangsannollimbeokgu (Heoteunsangchigi), Dangsandollimbeokgu, Obangjin, Mudongnollim, Beokgunollim (Ssangjulbaegi), Satongbaegi, Gasaebeollim, Jwauchigi, Nejulbaegi, Madangilchae (Jjeokjjeogigut) and Milchigibeokgu, individual displays such as Sangswenori, and items such as Mudongseogi (Saemibatgi) and Chaesangnori. In the early twentieth century many Namsadangpae mogabi (troupe managers) emerged, and Anseong's pungmul came to be known as "Utdari Nongak," taking on a central role among the farmers' band music of the Gyeonggi region. The Namsadangpae active at the time included the Gaedaripae, Omyeongseonpae, Simseonokpae, Anseong Bokmanipae, Wonyukdeokpae and Iwonbopae, but the effective origin of today's Namsadangpae is traced through the lineage of the kkokdusoe Baudeogi, Kim Bok-man, Won Yuk-deok, Yi Won-bo and Kim Gi-bok. In 1982, the Anseong Namsadang Preservation Society was founded, centred on Kim Gi-bok, who had trained as a sangsoe (lead percussionist) with the Iwonbopae. In 1989, it won the President's Award at the National Folk Arts Competition. In 1997, Kim Gi-bok was designated a holder of the skill, but he passed away in 2015. Since then, efforts to continue performances and transmit this heritage item have centred on Seong Gwang-u, who serves as both head of the preservation society and assistant instructor.

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Where it is

Region

Anseong, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Intangible Heritage · 시도무형유산