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This picture represents
the royal ancestral shrine music program. This music comemorizes
the king of the Choson who had governed the Korean peninsular. There
are two kinds of music: Potaepyong and Chong- daeop.
Potaepyong means “preserving the great peace.”
It has eleven peices. Chong-daeop means “achieving great works.”
It had fifteen peices, but was reduced to eleven pieces, matching
Potaepyong, and most of the remaining twenty-two pieces were abbreviated,
given new titles, and rearranged. Potaepyong was alloted to the first
offerings of wine and Chong-daeop to the second and third offerings of
wine. Huimun, the introductory piece from Potaepyong , was usually performed
during the ushering in of spirits
The remaining three sections were performed during the offerings of
the table of food, the removal of tribute, and the ushering
out of the spirits. A new piece was added, now referred as simply
chinchan. The music is accompanied by a dance, known as ilmu
or "line" dance, which is divided into a civil dance and a military
dance. The dance movements, performed by 64 girls, are very slow
and simple. During the civil dance a flute is held in the left hand
and a dragon’s head on a stick in the right hand. However,
in the military dance, half the group holds wooden swords and other half,
wooden spears. This music is designated as important cultural assets
and usually performed on the first day of May in Chongmyo.
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