On 5th December, a workshop on the occasion of 2024 “World Audiovisual Heritage Day” was held in the Grand People’s Study House.
Following the inscription of our national classic “Muyedobothongji” on the UNESCO Memory on Oct 30, Juche 106(2017), the astronomical chart “Honchonjondo” was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register on May 24, Juche 112(2023).
The opening ceremony of the National Books Exhibition took place on Sep. 7 at the Grand People’s Study House in celebration of the 75th founding anniversary of the DPRK.
Many working people make research in the science in the Grand People’s Study House-immense edifice for giving all the people education.
The officials and employees of GPSH make strenuous efforts for the improvement of the quality of the tele-reeducation for the scientists and technicians.
This tactics occupies an important place in the history of our ancestors’ anti-aggression war including Koguryo.
It is aimed at leaving the villages and fields free from a grain and a single amount of water and defending inside the castle, so that the aggressors are forced to be driven out of the country, suffering from severe hunger and cold.
The widespread use of this tactics was due to the fact that there were natural and geographical conditions in many mountainous and rugged areas where strong defensive castle could be built.
The one which was conducted by the proposal of the minister of State Myongnimdapbu when the great troops of the Later Han dynasty invaded in 172 is a typical example of them.
《The collection of MangWuDang》(five volumes) is a collection of 36 poems including a four-line stanza, rhythm and 59 pieces of prose including letters, appeal, written report, and funeral oration.
《The collection of MangWuDang》contains several poems written by Kwak Jae Wu in the period after the Imjin Patriotic War and poems written by the posterity in praise of Kwak Jae Wu's exploits.
What is noteworthy in the《The collection of MangWuDang》 is that it reflects the patriotic spirit against aggression and the denunciation of the corrupted and incompetent feudal bureaucrats for their crimes against the nation based on their practical experience as volunteers in the battle sites for defending the security of the country.
It also reflects the psychological world of the author who tries to calmly end his remaining days after the withdrawal of political circles making a clean heart feel free from the irrational reality and contradictions of feudal society.
Volume 5 of the《The collection of MangWuDang》 is an appendix, which contains memorials written by several people after the death of Kwak Jae U and poems written by the posterity in praise of his exploits.
The poetic heritage inscribed in the 《The collection of MangWuDang》 is valuable data conducive to the study of the literature of anti-aggression patriotism during the Imjin Patriotic War.
The national classic " The collection of Paek Sa " is a collection of works of Ri Hang Bok (1556-1618) who was a feudal bureaucrat and literary man and it contains military data related to the period before and after the Imjin Patriotic War.
First of all, in it was described the data of the Japanese aggressors who had invaded our country in 16th century.
“The collection of Paek Sa " reflects the measures for bolstering up the country's defence capability. Among the measures was a suggestion to rationally deploy the armed forces of the naval force and thus strengthen the coastal defence of the country.
It also deals with the issue of bolstering up the military force by stepping up the manufacture of weapons in the early 17th century.
Ri Hang Bok also proposed at the palace that the money used for the luxury and dissipation of the nobles should be transferred to military service to make weapons.
As seen above, the national classic " The collection of Paek Sa " is of great value in the history of the struggle against invaders in the Middle Ages and in the study of military data related to the military affairs of our country, as it reflects the invasion of the Japanese imperialists against Korea in the latter half of the 16th century and early in the 17th century, the activities for strengthening the country's military capabilities and the efforts for manufacturing weapons suited to the actual conditions at that time.
Generally, the buckle is a metal ring for fixing the belt.
The ruling class of the Rangnang made the buckles and other accessories specially priced on gold and silver to demonstrate their prestige.
The shapes of buckles which have been excavated from the Rakrang graves are all wide and round in front with rings, and the back is somewhat narrow rectangular and about 10cm long.
In the front part, there is a lunette narrow, long hole for the buckle insertion and in the middle one ring to fix the buckle.
The buckles were also found in the Sokamri Tomb No. 9, Jongbaekdong Tomb No. 37, No. 92 and No. 2.
The buckle from the Sokamri Tomb No. 9 (a typical log tomb) was decorated with a narrow-grain gold granule and a thin gold thread, in which one adult dragon and six baby dragons were represented with gold granules.
And they were decorated with over 40 jewels.
The buckle of the Jongbakdong Tomb No.37 is a tiger patterned buckle with 12 blue jewels in its every points such as the tiger eyes embossed with a tiger held on four legs, in which was decorated with the silver granules, as small as a grain in the edges
The buckle of the Jongbakdong Tomb No.92 is depicted with a plump of mother dragon and baby dragon rising from the water tornado in the front and is embossed a pregnant bear and a gallipot on the pig in the back.
The mother dragon, baby dragon, pig, bear and etc. were gilded and 21 blue jewels were placed in every points including in the eyes of the animal.
The buckle from the Jongbakdong Tomb No. 2 was decorated with silver granules, as small as a grain in the edges and the tiger and dragon patterns were carved in it.
There are holes which were punched with jewels in the eyes and hips of the tiger and the dragon.
- Plantain.
The seed is mainly used as medicine.
It is effective if you feel burning sensation when you urinate and can’t urinate well and even with blood.
-Glechoma hederacea. All parts of this plant are used as a medicine.
In addition to urinary calculus, this is also used for its antitussive and expectorative funcions.
- Lygodium japonicum. A leaf with an ascus is used as a medicine.
It is used for urolithiasis, pyelonephritis, cystitis, edema and etc.
The duckweed. All parts of this plant floating on the water are used as a medicine.
It is used for the lack of urination, edema of the body and for the desuperation of heat.
A ring is a decorative piece of feminine finger, with two rings of flat inside and rough outside, and a ring in one.
Over the long historical period, finger rings were only available for married women, and unmarried women used rings.
The fact that the ring was made of shell, known as the primitive age, shows that its history is very long.
The ancient ring was made by gold, silver and bronze and it was the main materials.
The custom of wearing rings was inherited to Koryo and the feudal Joson dynasty. In the period of the Korean feudal dynasty, Confucianism became dominant and marriage was considered as an important process of human events, so its meaning was further emphasized as a symbol symbolizing love and marriage.
In this period of time, gold or silver was mainly used as the material of rings, besides jade, agate, amber, nephrite, pearl, and malachite were also used.
During the Korean feudal dynasty, the rulers wore rings of various materials according to the seasons and rings made by good materials like gold and silver were worn by women of the landlords family, whereas the rings of nickle and bronze were worn by ordinary women.
Thus, the ring has been widely used for many years, considered as one of the important accessories of our women, as a symbol of love, a symbol of marriage.