2024-06-29 22:11:56
On Saturday, June twenty ninth at 8:55 PM, EBS1TV will put their lives on the road for ‘Excessive Job’! Conventional knife craftsman! The episode is broadcast.
There are craftsmen who threat their lives to guard our nation’s conventional knives! Tiger 12 months, tiger month, tiger day, tiger hour. In different phrases, the king’s sword, Saingeom, made by quenching the tiger character 寅 4 occasions overlapping! And the lengthy sword that embodies the noble spirit of a scholar and the dignity of a scholar! Conventional Korean knives have survived to at the present time because of craftsmen who work onerous to protect the custom by heating and pounding iron at over 1,000°C. Let’s go to the location the place the artisans put their coronary heart and soul into conventional knives whereas combating the scorching warmth even in the course of summer season.
The king’s sword with the spirit of a tiger, the Sain Sword!
Grasp Lee Sang-seon succeeded in reproducing the Sa-in-geom sword over the course of 10 years!
The king’s sword, Sain Sword (四寅劍), was made by tempering the sword through the 4 occasions of the tiger’s cycle that happen each 12 years to chase away evil spirits and pray for the well-being of the royal household. Should you go to a small college in Mungyeong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, you’ll be able to meet a craftsman who recreates our nation’s Sain Sword. Grasp craftsman Lee Sang-seon is a successor of the standard yacheol sword sector and a grasp of conventional sword making. He says that when he heats the iron in a hearth of 800°C and strikes it tens of 1000’s of occasions whereas forging, his arms shake a lot that he has bother consuming. After creating the form of the sword, he has to sharpen the blade for every week. Then, the sword is tempered through the tiger 12 months, tiger month, tiger day, and tiger hour that happens as soon as each 12 years. After that, they do the inlay work the place they carve grooves straight into the blade, engraving phrases and constellations to chase away evil spirits, after which filling it with gold or silver. It’s mentioned that after a number of months of densely carving phrases and constellations on the back and front of the blade, your finger joints will begin to get chilly. Throughout this whole course of, a excessive stage of focus is required as a result of when you make even the slightest mistake, you need to throw the sword away. Grasp Lee Sang-seon has devoted his total life to creating saingeom swords! We go to the workshop of the grasp who has by no means regretted his life of constructing swords, though there have been many tough moments.
The accent of students and noblewomen, the lengthy sword!
The 177 steps of the Jangdojang that carves the appropriate spirit!
Previously, students and court docket girls carried a jangdo to straighten their minds and adorn their our bodies! Though the jangdo just isn’t giant, it’s a tough handicraft that goes by means of not less than 177 processes. Should you go to Gwangyang, Jeollanam-do, you’ll be able to meet Park Jong-gun Jangdojang, a nationwide intangible cultural heritage that makes jangdo. Park Jong-gun Jangdojang, who inherited the jangdomaking method from his father, makes jangdo utilizing the standard methodology, so not one of the 177 processes are straightforward. He makes delicate jangdo by hand-kneading the bellows and utilizing unfamiliar conventional instruments similar to a bow and a borae, that are tough to deal with and handcraft. And the attribute of this workshop is that each one the relations have acquired the jangdo method! Park Jong-gun’s spouse, Jeong Yun-suk, inherited the Nakjukjangdo strategy of engraving letters and footage on bamboo with a soldering iron, and his two sons additionally inherited the jangdo making method from their grandfather and father. Particularly, the eldest son, Park Nam-joong, is claimed to be operating a shopping center and speaking with the general public by way of the Web to modernize Jangdo… We go to fulfill a household of artisans who’re working onerous collectively in a workshop to proceed the custom of Korean Jangdo.
Reporter Park Yu-mi photograph EBS1 Excessive Job
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2024-06-29 22:11:56