Dongchundang Cultural Festival in Daejeon

Dongchundang Cultural Festival in Daejeon

The fifth largest city of South Korea, Daejeon plays host to major festivals and events. Dongchundang Cultural Festival in Daejeon celebrates traditional cultural arts and the academic achievements of the classical scholar Song Jun-gil who wrote with a pseudonym Dongchundang. Known as the Confucian scholar of the Daejeon area, his writings, thoughts and reflections influence the understanding of traditional culture which has become the theme of this cultural festival.

Features of Dongchundang Cultural Festival in Daejeon:

• The festival sports colorful displays to befit its name cultural festival.
• The Dongchundang Cultural Festival focuses on a community feeling between locals through literary writing contest and swinging.
• The major feature of the festival is to revive self-respect and consciousness of one's roots. This in turn disseminates the essence of the traditional cultural arts.
• People become conscious of their roots and he is inspired to guard it in every way.
• Without knowing one's roots, the people will not be able to discover their true selves.
• The festival offers an ideal platform to know the culture and revive one's consciousness and enhance the sense of unity and togetherness.
• The festival celebrates the significance of four fields – literature, the arts, folk customs and planning functions.
• The festival features playing percussion instruments.
• The literature and the arts include handwriting, literary writing contest for women and literary writing contest for Chinese poetry.
• The folk customs features writing family precepts, demonstration of traditional tea, throwing arrows to a quiver, swinging and rope riding,
• The planning function characterizes experience of pottery, experience of traditional culture, amateur photographic contest and painting a portrait.
• The festival is an exquisite blend of traditional fervor and modern elements.

Season of Dongchundang Cultural Festival in Daejeon: The festival takes place in the month of April in Dongchundang (Songchon-dong, Dong-gu).

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