[KS] Royal Yi Clan memorial ceremonies this Sunday

[Katherine Lee]

Hello.

As of 2003, the date of the Jongmyo Daeje--Royal Ancestral rite has been 
rescheduled for the fourth Sunday of every May. (This year's date is May 
25). More information can be found at the following website:

http://www.rfo.co.kr


Best,
Katherine Lee
Seoul


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Katherine In-Young Lee
Blakemore Foundation Fellow 2001-2003
University of Washington
Department of Ethnomusicology
kileek at hotmail.com




>From: "Kaliher, Kenneth L." <KaliherK at usfk.korea.army.mil>
>Reply-To: Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
>To: 'Korean studies' <Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
>Subject: [KS] Royal Yi Clan memorial ceremonies this Sunday
>Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 11:52:09 +0900
>
>Another brief heads up for those of you in or near Seoul:
>    This Sunday Korea's royal Yi clan hold their annual memorial ceremonies
>at Seoul's Chongmyo Shrine, between Chongno and Ch'angdok Palace/Secret
>Garden, beginning around 9 a.m.  For this all-day event, the clan elders
>turn out in all their traditional finery; there are ancient (and somber)
>Confucian dances -- performed these days by young women, since there is a
>shortage of interested young men; and musicians play ancient court
>instruments.  This is a rare opportunity to see these colorful rituals,
>which we often learn about only via the next day's after-the-fact newspaper
>coverage.
>
>Ken Kaliher
>Seoul
>
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