Jangheunghogyeribyeolsinjewadonggyemunseo

The Byeolsinje (a village ritual) of Hogye-ri and its donggye (village compact) documents are records relating to a communal village ritual and to the village and its Byeolsinje, handed down in Hogye-ri, Busan-myeon, Jangheung; they have been maintained and transmitted from the time the village was formed in the Joseon period down to the present day. In particular, the donggye documents, which began in the late Joseon period (the Byeolsinje around 1702, and the Daedonggye, or donggye, in 1715) and have been recorded every year right up to the present, are living historical material and a rare source for understanding the history and development of a communal village ritual. Byeolsinje is not a common term in the South Jeolla region, but it is distinctively used for the typical annual village ritual held in Hogye-ri, Jangheung, and differs greatly from the Dangsanje, a folk-belief ritual more commonly seen in South Jeolla. The ritual is conducted according to Confucian procedure, and its sequence, offerings and officiants all follow, without alteration, the form of official state rites (gwanje) as set out in the Gillye (Auspicious Rites) section of the Gukjo Oryeui, the Joseon code of state ritual; the Byeolsinje of Hogye-ri thus shows how an official state rite came to be adopted by the common people. In Hogye-ri, the Byeolsinje and the Dangsanje were once held side by side; although the Dangsanje has since been discontinued, the Byeolsinje, having become a folk-belief practice, continues to be performed every year as a living element of village culture. The Byeolsinje of Hogye-ri, Jangheung, has been handed down since the 1700s, with related records still extant; it continues to be performed today, its folk-artistic value has been confirmed through events such as the Namdo Culture Festival, its historical and academic value has been established through experts' village survey reports and papers, and a preservation society for the Byeolsinje has been organised and is in operation. The documents relating to the donggye and Byeolsinje of Hogye-ri are communal records handed down from the late Joseon period (the Byeolsinje from around 1702, the Daedonggye from 1715) — seventeen volumes including the Donggyean (donggye register), Jipgangnok (record of officers), Jegwallok (record of ritual officiants), Holgi (ritual protocols) and Pungmul Buuichaek (record of contributions for the village band), together with two petitions and one set of bylaws. They reveal the founding and operation of the donggye, the changes in village history, and the conduct of the Byeolsinje, the community's ritual. Together with the Daedongchanggye, a volume recording the circumstances of the founding of the Daedonggye in 1715, the forty-first year of King Sukjong, documents recording the ritual officiants chosen and the year's accounts, compiled every year after the Byeolsinje is performed, are bound and kept to this day. Also preserved are a book recording the names and contributions of those who once donated towards the village's pungmul (farmers'-band instruments and costumes), the Jegwallok, and the Holgi, among other records. These documents, recorded over a span of three hundred years, are valuable historical sources that illuminate not only the Byeolsinje but the whole history of the village. Furthermore, even today, after the Byeolsinje is performed each year, a village general assembly called the 'Daedonggye' is held, at which the accounts of the ritual and general village affairs are recorded, making this a living history.

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Where it is

Region

Jangheung, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산