Dano (festival)
dano korean 단오 also called suritnal 수릿날 korean traditional holiday fall th day fifth month lunar korean calendar official holiday north korea one major traditional holiday south korea south korea retained several festival related holiday one gangneung dano festival 강릉단오제 designated unesco intangible cultural heritage humanity mahan confederacy ancient korea day spiritual rite enjoyment song dance wine traditionally woman washed hair water boiled sweet flag 창포 changpo believed make one hair shiny woman also put angelica polymorpha 궁궁이 gunggungi flower hair belief aroma would repel evil people wore blue red clothes dyed hairpin red iris root men wore iris root around waist ward evil spirit herb wet dew morning said heal stomachache wound traditional food include surichitteok ssuktteok herb rice cake folk game associated dano include swinging ssireum wrestling seokjeon stone battle game taekkyon martial art swing game played woman ssireum wrestling match among men addition mask dance used popular among peasant due penchant satirical lyric flouting local aristocrat dano also called suritnal mean high day day god word surit harks back suri 수레 sure meaning wheel rice cake marked wheel pattern term suri alternatively associated word eagle 수리 suri common shamanic motif suritnal also written two hanja form 戌衣日 · 水瀨日 etymological merely homophonic dano sinokorean name derived duanwu festival sinokorean reading date include 천중가절 중오절 단양 오월절 天中佳節 重午節 端陽 五月節 cheonjunggajeol jungojeol danyang owoljeol modern history tends characterize dano shamanistic ritual worshipping sky deity celebration end sowing season according article comparative study tano festival korea china people mahan confederacy celebrated day night dancing singing sowing season may ancient state jinhan rite heaven held sowing seed may said custom passed silla venerated dano northern region living creature wake winter sleep may dano originally holiday celebrated northern part country since three kingdom korea era ancestral god also became object sacrifice example gaya dano one five annual ritual suro legendary ancestor gaya since emphasis given ancestral ritual festival syncretized sinitic duanwu festival joseon dynasty adopting new name dano along exact date celebration dragon boat festival list festival asia list festival south korea list korean traditional festival public holiday north korea traditional korean holiday academy korean study ed dano may encyclopedia korean people culture woongjin korean information dano information dano gallery dano