Dano (festival)

	Representation of the artist Sin Yun-bok (1805)
Korean spelling
Korean alphabet :	단오
Hanja :	端午
Revised Romanization :	Dano
McCune-Reischauer :	Tano

Dano is a traditional festival in Korea , celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Korean lunar calendar. In the Gregorian calendar , this usually corresponds to June . It is also known as Suritnal ( 수릿날 ), Cheonjungjeol ( 천중절 / 天中節 ), and Jungojeol ( 중오절 / 重午節 ). The designation can also vary regionally. The festival at the end of the seed season asked for a good harvest. It is a national holiday in North Korea and one of the largest traditional festivals in South Korea . The festival in Gangneung is considered the most famous and has been included in the list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity by UNESCO .

history

In modern history, Dano is described as a shamanistic ritual to celebrate the god of heaven at the end of the seed season. According to Park Jin-Tae, the people of the Mahan Confederation celebrated singing and dancing day and night after the end of the season in May. In Jinhan State, there was a rite of honoring heaven at the end of the seed season. This tradition lived on in Silla . Over time, ancestor worship became part of the festival. While the festival was known as Suritnal in Korea , the name Dano was adopted during the Joseon Dynasty , derived from the Chinese festival Duānwǔ . The fifth day of the fifth month was also set as a feast day. Along with New Year and Chuseok , Dano was the third major festival during the Joseon Dynasty.

tradition

Traditionally, women wash their hair in water that has been boiled with calamus . The hair becomes shiny and according to popular belief it should drive away evil spirits. People wore blue and red clothes and red hairpins. Men wore iris roots for protection from evil spirits. Traditional food is surichitteok, ssuktteok and other rice cakes .

Dano was committed with a few games. Swings and seesaws, as well as ssireum and taekgyeon . There was also the mask dance for entertainment, in which the local aristocrats were mocked by satirical songs.

gallery

Seesaw at the Dano Festival in Andong
Gangneung Danoje
Gangneung Danoje
Gangneung Danoje
Gangneung Danoje

Web links

Commons : Dano - collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the Gangeung Danoje Festival

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Lim Jeong-yeo: 1,000 Chinese tourists to visit Seoul to enjoy Korean traditional custom 'Dano'. In: The Korea Herald . June 6, 2016, accessed November 24, 2019 .
↑ Gangneung Danoje festival. In: UNESCO. Retrieved November 23, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b Park Jin-Tae: 한 ㆍ 중 단오제 의 비교 연구 . In: 비교 민속학 . tape 37 , 2008, p. 77-106 .
^ Yoon Seo-seok: Festive Occasions: The Customs in Korea . Ewha Womans University Press, Seoul 2008, ISBN 978-89-7300-781-3 , pp. 93 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
^ Dano Festival. In: Visit Seoul. May 30, 2014, accessed November 24, 2019 .

[KoreaHerald-1] Lim Jeong-yeo: 1,000 Chinese tourists to visit Seoul to enjoy Korean traditional custom 'Dano'. In: The Korea Herald . June 6, 2016, accessed November 24, 2019 .

[2] Gangneung Danoje festival. In: UNESCO. Retrieved November 23, 2019 .

[ParkJintae-3] Park Jin-Tae: 한 ㆍ 중 단오제 의 비교 연구 . In: 비교 민속학 . tape 37 , 2008, p. 77-106 .

[4] Yoon Seo-seok: Festive Occasions: The Customs in Korea . Ewha Womans University Press, Seoul 2008, ISBN 978-89-7300-781-3 , pp. 93 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[5] Dano Festival. In: Visit Seoul. May 30, 2014, accessed November 24, 2019 .