 Jeong
Seon Arirang
 Intangible
Cultural Properties number 1
Established
: 1971
Location
: Jeong Seon - gun |
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History
Jeong Seon Arirang, also Known as A Ra Ri. This local
falk song has been handed down for generations. It gained
popularity in Eastern Korea when it first began to be
sung 600 years ago. At that time Korea was in a transitional
phase, moving a from the GoRyeo Dynasty to the ChoSeon
Dynasty. Many scholars from the old GoRyeo Dynasty swore
their allegiance to their former King and went into hiding.
At firstthey hid in Song Do, then they moved to Jeong
Su. While in exile they ate wild edible plants and kept
reminding themselves to love their former king and remain
loyal to him. Naturally they thought about their homes
and families that they had left behind. So they began
to write Chinese poetry, as a means of expressing their
feelings. The scholars knew that their poetry was a good
means to mark other people know and understand their ideas.
People sung the poems and passed them on. Jeong Seon Arirang
was one such poem. Later, other poems were written about
such to pics as the massacre of the scholars, war and
other unforturnate sitiations in life. During colonization,
the Japanses suppressed all kinds of Korean ideology,
but the Korea people were still able to express themselves
though songs.
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