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Yunnori This game is ever popular during major holidays. Yunnori is basically very simple. Instead of dice or a spinner, the combination of four sticks determines how far to move on the board. The board can be set up anywhere with chalk or a magic marker. The bigger the board, the better. The sticks are shaped like small canoes, flat on one side and rounded on the other, with tapered ends. On the bottom (flat) side of one stick is a special mark, called baekdo. Each team has four chips, either black or white. All four chips of one color must go around the board once for the team to win. The number of spaces which a player can move depends on how the sticks land after being tossed. When one flat side is up and three rounded sides are up, the combination allows one step forward. Two up and two down allow a forward movement of two spaces. Three flat up and one rounded up is good for three spaces. If all the sticks are flat side up, the move ahead is four spaces. Finally, if all the sticks are rounded side up, it allows a move of five steps. Chips separately, or when two land on the same space they can move together. It is possible for all four to travel in a pack, but the danger lies in being caught and "eaten" by the other team’s chips, whenever chip lands on a space occupied by the other team’s chip, the captured chip must go all the way back to the beginning and the capturer get another turn. The board is set up with short cuts. Normally, the chips must move around counterclockwise. There is a special circle, so that diagonal short cuts are possible depending on where your opponents lie. Each team is given only four chips no matter how many are in the group. The captain of each side must coordinate the strategies of avoiding, attacking, and doubling to bring all four chips around the most quickly. Unlike other popular adult games, there is usually no money exchanged but winners may eat extra rice cakes. 103 _ Holidays and Food Dano ("Double Five," or Fifth Day of the Fifth Month) To welcome the beginning of summer, memorial rites for ancestors were observed and then the fun began. Women washed their hair in water in which iris roots had been boiled (changpo) and gathered herbs to be dried. This was the one day of the year that married women were free to visit their own families. Women also swung on high swings while men engaged in ssireum, traditional Korean wrestling. In anticipation of the heat, kings sent fans to officials while villages sent fans to Seoul. The royal clinic made jehotang, a health soup, for the king. The traditional menu also included shad soup, steamed carp and
104 _ HELLO from KOREA cherry punch. Round rice cakes flavored with mugwort and other mountain greens are still served in some households. Gangneung in Gangwon-do Province is famous for its five-day Dano festival. In fact, the government has officially designated the festival as Important Intangible Cultural Treasure No.13. In addition to the folk games played at other times of the year, the festival includes a Confucian ritual, shaman exorcisms, masked dances, farmers' dance, and even a circus. After working up a vigorous sweat, merrymakers drink powerful liquor brewed especially for the celebration. Chilseok (Seventh Day of the Seventh Month) This may be the most romantic day of the calendar. Korean legend has it that the Vega and Altair stars are the celestial reincarnations of two lovers, Gyeonu (Herdboy) and Jiknyeo (Weaving Maiden), who meet only once a year. As the story goes, the daughter of the Heavenly King lived on the eastern side of the heavenly stream, or Milky Way, and weaved beautiful fabrics every night. Worried that she might be lonely, the king married her to a handsome herdboy tending flocks on the western side, but the two lovers were so caught up in romance that she neglected her weaving. In anger, the king banished her back across the stream. Their sorrow moved the king to allow her to cross the stream once a year on Chilseok on a bridge made of magpies and crows. Rainfall at night signified their tears of joy, while rain on the following morning meant tears of parting. Foods for this day were ricecakes, zucchini pancakes, noodles, and cucumber kimchi. Chuseok ("Harvest Festival Day") Fifteenth Day of the Eight Month This is another of Korea's major holidays, and the most generous in spirit. It is a day of thanksgiving for a good harvest. As on Lunar New Year's Day, families return to their home towns from all across the country to celebrate together. Families traditionally received new clothes on this day but today they are likely to dress up in hanbok. They pay respects to their ancestors with
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