Dano (Korean festival)
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For the same festival in other East Asian cultures, see Double Fifth.
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Dano, also called Surit-nal, is a Korean holiday that falls on the 5th day of the fifth month of the lunar Korean calendar. It is an official holiday in North Korea. It is one of the major traditional holidays in South Korea.
In Korea, it developed with significant differences from the Chinese festival, even though China has Double Fifth festival or Dragon Boat Festival. [1]
In the Mahan confederacy of ancient Korea, this was a day of spritual rites, and enjoyment with song, dance, and wine. Traditionally, women washed their hair in water boiled with iris (changpo (창포)),believed to make one's hair shiny. People wore blue and red clothes and dyed hairpins red with the iris roots. Men wore iris roots around their waist to ward of evil spirits. Herbs wet with dew on this morning were said to heal stomachaches and wounds. Traditional foods include surichitteok, ssuktteok, and other herb rice cakes. [2]
The persisting folk games of Dano are the swing and ssireum (씨름). The swing was a game played by women, while ssireum was a wrestling match among men. In addition, mask dance used to be popular among peasants due to its penchant for satirical lyrics flouting local aristocrats.
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[edit] Etymology
In Mahan confederacy of ancient Korea, there was a small city to sacrifice to the Heaven, which was called "Sodo(소도, 蘇塗)"[3] . In fact, Sodo is composed of two words such as "Suri" and "Dure", and these two words are abbreviated into Sodo. Suri means highness or divine mountain, and Dure means "social meeting" or "get together". In addition, Mahan confederacy people had sacrificed to heaven getting together in Sodo at May the 5th, and such a sacifice day is now becoming to Dano.[4]
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[edit] References
- ^ Dano festival an important legacy of Korean culture from Yonhap News, at 2005/06/03 11:07 KST
- ^ Encyber Encyclopedia article
- ^ In the chapter of Dongyi(東夷傳) at Records of Three Kingdoms
- ^ Research of Old Joseon History(조선사연구), written by Jeong Inbo(정인보 지음), compiled by Park Seongsu(박성수 편역), 2000, ISBN : 8986438356
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