'Seungmu (Mars Moving Eddy)' Designated as Hwaseong City's Local Intangible Cultural Asset No. 1

Hwaseong City in Gyeonggi Province announced on the 22nd that it has designated 'Seungmu (Hwaseong Lee Dong-anryu)' as the city's first local intangible cultural asset and presented the certificate of designation to Kim Jeong-ah, who was selected as the cultural asset holder on the 21st.

Jung Myung-geun, Mayor of Hwaseong City, is taking a commemorative photo after presenting the certificate to Kim Jeong-ah, who was designated as the holder of the local intangible cultural asset No. 1, 'Seungmu (Hwaseong Idongan-ryu).'
[Photo by Hwaseong City]

'Seungmu (Hwaseong Lee Dong-anryu),' designated as Hwaseong City's first local intangible cultural asset, is a Seungmu dance performed by Lee Dong-an, a talented person from Hwaseong. It is characterized by removing the monk's robe, placing it over the Buddhist drum, and finishing with a gesture of clasped hands bowing. This movement is based on a background legend in which a disciple at a mountain temple danced vigorously following the advice of a Taoist monk who appeared in a dream to heal the illness of his old master, then suddenly left the temple.

Kim Jeong-ah, who was selected as the holder, studied the dance under Park Jeong-im, the successor of Lee Dong-an, thus continuing the transmission lineage. To widely promote Lee Dong-an's dance, Kim established the 'Hwaseong Jaein Lee Dong-an Preservation Society' and operates various dance transmission projects.

Jung Myeong-geun, mayor of Hwaseong City, said, "Taking this designation of the local intangible cultural asset as the first step, we will discover and preserve various intangible heritages befitting Hwaseong, a city of one million people."

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