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Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41833

Type

conference item

Titre

Jongmyo (Royal Shrine) : iconography of Korea

Langues

English

Auteurs

Rii, Hae-un

Lieu de publication

Paris

Pays de publication

France

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS

Date

2005

Pages

5 p.

Addenda

Handwritten page numbers 103-107 on the printed collected papers.

Titre de conférence

14th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Place, memory, meaning: preserving intangible values in monuments and sites’

Lieu de conférence

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Date de conférence

27 – 31 oct 2003

Mots-clés

intangible heritage / World Heritage List / shrines / rituals / historic buildings / places of religion and ritual / cultural identity

Pays mentionnés

Korea, Republic of

Monuments et sites

Jongmyo Shrine, Republic of Korea / Old City of Seoul, Republic of Korea

N° Patrimoine mondial

738

Résumé en anglais

Jongmyo, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1995, is the royal ancestral shrine housing the spirit tablets of the successive kings and queens of the Joseon (Chosun) Dynasty, officiating a memorial rite. Jongmyo-Daejae (Royal Shrine Ritual) refers to the worship performed in honour of the royal family’s ancestors of the Joseon Dynasty. During the era of the Joseon Dynasty, Jongmyo-Daejae was the largest and most important ritual. This ceremony was originally performed by the nation five times a year. But the memorial rite was prohibited during the periods of Japanese occupation. Since 1969, it has been performed by the Royal family Association once a year in May. This Memorial Rite and the Music for the Memorial Rite of Jongmyo were declared World Intangible Heritage in 2001. The ceremony was the national memorial rite in the era of the Joseon Dynasty. Being prohibited by the Japanese it lost the meaning as an iconography of the Joseon Dynasty. However, descendants of royal family have preserved and developed the ceremony as their own memorial rite to their ancestors. And now, Jongmyo-Daejae is a valuable intangible cultural heritage of Korea ,and Jongmyo, where Jongmyo-Daejae is performed, is regarded as the iconography of the nation.

Document joint

A2-7-_UnRii.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)

Document source

26567 - English #26567

N° d'entrée et cote

14852