Jindo-gun, National Intangible Cultural Heritage 'Dasiraegi' Public Presentation

The public presentation of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Dasiraegi will be held on the 22nd at the Jindo-gun Intangible Cultural Heritage Training Center. (Photo by Jindo-gun)

[Jindo＝Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Hyun] The public presentation of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Jindo Dasiraegi will be held on the 22nd at 3:30 PM at the Jindo-gun Intangible Cultural Heritage Transmission Center.

According to the county on the 21st, Dasiraegi is a folk play performed in the Jindo area when holding a funeral, where local pallbearers comfort the bereaved and stay up all night with the mourners to pray for the deceased's rebirth in paradise.

This funeral play is performed to console and alleviate the grief of the mourners and bereaved families when holding a funeral for a person who lived a happy life to their natural lifespan. It was designated as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage in February 1985.

The public event is sponsored by the Cultural Heritage Administration, the National Intangible Heritage Center, and the Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation, with holders and transmitters of Jindo Dasiraegi participating.

This event is held to publicly present the entire Jindo Dasiraegi to the general public, raising awareness of traditional culture and to inherit and develop our unique folk culture.

To prevent COVID-19, the communal gathering with visitors will be omitted, and the event will be conducted strictly following quarantine rules such as social distancing, provision of hand sanitizers, and temperature checks.

A representative from the Jindo-gun Culture, Arts and Sports Division stated, “Following Ganggangsullae and Arirang, we have applied to the Cultural Heritage Administration to register Jindo-gun’s representative funeral and memorial cultures such as Dasiraegi, Ssikkimgut, and Manga as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.”

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