Peasant dance is a folk dance that peasants in our country have danced to merry farm music from long ago. It is an optimistic and delightful popular dance of strong national coloring.
It is distinguished by its vigorous, spirited and colorful costume.
Dancers wore red jackets with yellow, white and black cuffs on the sleeves, and waistbands up to the chest tied at the back and hung down silk streamers in various colors on the back (three pieces each) in a good assortment.
At the time of dancing, especially dashing or rotating, the streamers blow and spread out in the wind to form beautiful shapes.
Peasant dance has distinguishing features in its movements and skills. Since it was a dance and a game of men, the dance movements were bold and turning round decorative tassels was focused on skills.
Turning round decorative tassels (pheasant feather or long thin strips of white paper tied to the top of soldier’s felt hat) like a windmill is peculiar to the peasant dance.
Turning round decorative tassels has tens of movements regarded as major dance movements, which are called sangmojit.
The decorative tassels as long as over 6 meters turning round on the dance field to form various shapes highlights the stunning spectacle of this folk art.
Under the wise guidance of the Workers’ Party of Korea, peasant dance is still being inherited for further development to meet the modern tastes.
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