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Experience Guide

"Welcome to our village! It looks like you have many worries and troubles and I'm guessing you are from the future. Why don't we go on a trip together with our scholars?”

experiencing admission’s story development. It displays a village in the 16th century Chosun Dyansty within the Daedong Village that materialized the idealistic society of Confucianism, and it shows 5 main characters distinguished in different age groups who welcomes the visitors and introduces the experience exhibition hall .

Exhibition Guide

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People in the Daedong Village

world where people are thoughtful, cooperate, and live together, the jolly children in the village where Confucianism ideals are present are living together while loving the respective tasks they have to uphold. The people from Daedong village are talking.

O(five)-Haeng(five elements)

In Myeongrihak there is something that cannot be missed, and it is O(five)-Haeng (五行).
O(five)-Haeng refers to mok/hwa/toe/guem/su, and each of these five has its own characteristics which are as follows. Therefore it means that a person becomes kind-hearted if he realizes two principles.

木 is literally the spirit of tree ‘Mok’, and the ‘Mok’ has a characteristic of 仁 being kind-hearted. For being kind-hearted the character ‘In’(仁) is used and when breaking down the character it has used the character of a person, ‘In’(人), and two, ‘Yi’(二). Therefore it means that a person becomes kind-hearted if he realizes two principles.
In O(five)-Haeng, there is 金. The character 金 also represents 義 which means rightful. In Buddhism, they say there are eight teachings. If one realizes such teachings, the person will become the owner and therefore it is right.
In O(five)-Haeng there is also 火. One of the definitions this O(five)-Haeng represents is Ye(禮) which means courtesy. Keeping one’s mind open without prejudice and observing in extensive manner when learning will lead to a mature rice plant which bows its head down. Instead of living an immature life, realizing the world’s principle and reading extensively makes one aware of how to act in what kind of attitude, and this is what 禮 is.
水 is an O(five)-Haeng that represents wisdom. When breaking down the character wisdom ‘Ji(智)’ we can see that it is a compound of knowing, Ji (知) + day, Il(日) Merely knowing is limited to simple knowledge with no experience and knowledge without experience is mere common knowledge. Therefore, the day, Il(日) character is added to represent wisdom which includes experience to knowledge.
In O(five)-Haeng there is 土. 土 refers to 信. Trust, Sin(信), which means one must believe in the words of the neighbors and trust them. Human, In (人) + Words, Eon (言) are compounded to make the character, Sin(信) Trusting a person’s words are important but the emphasis is on the person who speaks in that he/she must speak what is credible.