The sacrifice to Confucius.
Three offerings of wine, a burnt written prayer, an eight-by-eight dance with feathered wands, and orchestral music descended from the Tang court that survives nowhere else. Korea performs it at Sungkyunkwan and at 231 local Confucian schools; Qufu holds its version on 28 September. Both are on national heritage registers.
The rite is a sacrifice in form. Korea's Seokjeon Daeje follows a fixed order — jeonpye, the presentation of silk; choheon, aheon and jongheon, the first, second and final wine offerings; bunheon, offerings at the side shrines; eumbok, the sharing of the sacrificial food; and mangnyo, the burning of the written prayer. It is accompanied by Munmyo jeryeak, ritual music descended from Song court music sent to Korea in 1116, and by the ilmu, a line dance in an eight-by-eight formation with dancers holding a flute and a feathered wand. Korea designated it Important Intangible Cultural Property No. 85 in 1986 and performs it at Sungkyunkwan in Seoul and at 231 local hyanggyo; since 2007 the spring rite has been fixed to 11 May and the autumn to 28 September on the solar calendar. Qufu's Jikong Dadian, on Confucius's birthday of 28 September, entered China's national intangible heritage list in 2006 and is the centrepiece of a state-supported cultural festival. Korean specialists argue, with justification, that the fullest surviving form of the ceremony is theirs.
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