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Jibang
folding was a necessary requirement of etiquette for the descendants
to have receive the ancestorial worship ceremony(Je-sa), and ancestor-memorial
rites(Cha-re). Jibang Folding was handed from grandfather to father,
from father to son, and from son to grandchild. This is one kind of
Korean traditional folk custom and it seems to be an origin of Korean
paper folding.
Also,
dwelling styles show how closely Koreans lived with papers. Korea
has a very intimate relation with paper, because people used paper
for making wallpaper as well as windows. Korea is the most intimately
related with the paper among the three countries in Northeast Asia.
It is not certain when and where the folding paper began.
We
can assume that man folded paper as soon as paper was
invented. Chinese paper folding is considered to be the oldest
one among three countries. japan learned the method to make
the paper from Damjing, a Korean monk, during the Corea period.
Then the Japanese produced quality paper and developed paper folding
themselves. For the first time in the world, Japan published books
about paper folding (1797). At present, there are a lot of professional
publishing companies producing books about paper folding. Also, there
are also a lot of societies for the study of paper folding. And they
do a study in foreign languages, so paper folding is famous as "Origami"
around the world.
Korean
paper folding has continued as a custom because it has been written
as a part of elementary school textbooks and teachers' guidebooks.
But during the Japanese Colonization period, Japan obliterated all
aspects of Korean culture. So the Korean paper folding culture was
banished during this period. But finally breaking a long silence,
the paper folding culture was revived with the establishment of the
Korean Paper Folding Organization in March, 1989. It is necessary
for us to excavate the past traditional paper folding as well as to
exhibit the creative paper art work. In this way, paper folding can
be improved greatly.
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