On the hillside of Changshan, Tai 'an County, South Chungcheongnam-do, there are seven stone tombs lined up. Until recently, people in the village sacrificed and prayed in front of the stone tomb. Especially on the fifteenth night of the first month, women in the village will come here to pray. There is no supporting stone in this supporting stone tomb group, only a capping stone, and some of the capping stones are still buried in the soil, so at first glance it is not a supporting stone tomb. However, the villagers believe that the seven stones arranged in a row are definitely not ordinary stones, so they are called "seven-star stones" and believe that they have extraordinary power.
There is a stone tomb called General Stone in Gunanli, taian county. People who pass by here think that this can satisfy the prayers, so they stand in front of the rocks and pray. In Jeollanam-do and Heshun County, there is a stone tomb called "Pingmei Stone", and this stone also has the legend of Grandma Magu. Legend has it that Grandma Magu learned that the nearby yunzhu Temple was going to build a Thousand Pagodas, so she lifted a big stone and went to yunzhu Temple. On the way, she heard that the pagoda was built, so she threw it away and came back.
There is another legend about Shi Pingmei. There is a big hole in this stone. The pregnant woman threw copper coins into the hole and gave birth to a son, not a daughter. It is also said that girls and boys can get married if they put copper coins in, but if they don't put them in, there is no fate and they can't be combined. Now we can often see some people passing by Shi Pingmei throwing money. Of course, they are just having fun. In this way, the stone tomb is not only a historical relic, but also the carrier of various legends and the object of blessing, and continues life with the villagers. Moreover, the renovated Zhi Zhi Tomb Park and various activities of the Zhi Zhi Tomb Festival also played a bridge role between prehistoric and modern times. Shunchuan Zhisi Tomb Park, located in Shunchuan, Jeollanam-do, was built to protect the remains of Zhisi Tomb from being swallowed up by dam construction. According to the development plan of cultural relics, Shunchuan municipal government has relocated the representative cultural relics such as supporting stone tombs and stone pillars scattered in Shunchuan, Baocheng and heshun county, and built parks. At present, there are 147 supporting stone tombs, 5 supporting stone tomb models, 2 stone pillars, 6 caves and a Paleolithic house in the park.
The Yangkou Prehistoric Museum in Yangkou County, gangwon set up an open-air exhibition of stone-supported tombs, while Gaochang County in Jeollabuk-do and Heshun County in Jeollanam-do built parks centered on stone-supported tombs scattered in a vast space. Incheon city Jianghua County also plans to build a square stone tomb park at the location of Jianghua Stone Tomb. Jianghua Zhishi Tomb has been designated asNo. 137 historical site by the state and registered as a world cultural heritage. In Jianghua Zhishi Tomb Park, there will be a museum of prehistoric cultural relics and an open-air exhibition hall, displaying models of Zhishi Tomb from all over the world, and an exhibition to reproduce the construction process and original life scenes of Zhishi Tomb. The audience can see and understand all the contents related to the tomb of Zhishi. The park is also equipped with self-cultivation forest, walking path and convenient facilities, providing a place for families to travel together and spend their leisure time together. In addition, the park also has an experiential learning field and a natural learning field, where visitors can feel and learn the lifestyle of their ancestors.
Stone Tomb Festival has been developed into a tourist commodity with local characteristics, which has attracted much attention. Like Jianghua Island, in order to promote Jianghua's stone tombs, a stone tomb festival is held every year. Jianghua Zhishi Tomb Cultural Festival began on 1998. Since 2000, the tomb of Zhishi here has been designated as a world cultural heritage, and the scale of cultural festival activities has been expanding day by day. During the cultural festival, you can experience various activities of primitive life, such as building stone tombs, making stone tools and pottery, drilling wood for fire, digging caves, throwing stone pots, and primitive hunting. , greatly satisfied the curiosity of the audience. In addition, with the help of the regional characteristics of many historical sites in Jianghua Island, some tourism activities with the theme of historical sites are being planned locally. Heshun county also held a stone tomb celebration to widely publicize the value of Shunzhi stone tomb being designated as a world cultural heritage. Heshun Stone Tomb Festival is the first stone tomb festival in Jeollanam-do. Scholars who study stone tombs and experts from home and abroad, such as members of UNESCO, gathered together to hold a seminar on the protection scheme of stone tombs and the transformation of stone tombs into tourism resources. In addition, Gaochang County of Jeollabuk-do holds an experience activity to support stone tombs every year.
There are many experience activities in the activities supporting the Stone Tomb Festival. The audience who came to the event site either participated in fishing activities, stone pot throwing activities, or participated in activities such as recreating the process of building stone tombs, and personally experienced the life state of the Bronze Age. Even the local residents who accompanied the stone support tomb day and night have deepened their understanding of the stone support tomb through such experience activities. Festivals supporting stone tombs not only bring people happy and beautiful memories, but also provide energetic educational opportunities for children to understand Korean culture.
The festival of supporting stone tombs effectively combines the specialties and regional characteristics of various regions and is developing into a veritable regional celebration. When you get there, you can feel how the stone tomb is integrated into modern people's lives. In this way, the stone tomb is not only the object of faith, but also the object of education. Sometimes it also plays the role of a good place for leisure and injects vitality into busy modern people.
The sex cave on the stone-supported tomb is not a natural phenomenon, but was deliberately carved by people at that time to express something. So, what do they want to express through sex? The general view in academic circles is that, as its literal meaning "breeding point" indicates, sex point means fertility and harvest. Professor Park Chang-fan also agrees that sexual acupoints are based on the belief of blessing, but he emphasizes that this is not the whole story. "The ancients also thought about where people go after death and why people exist. The constellations painted on the walls of ancient tombs in Koguryo (37-668 BC) and Silla (57-935 BC) are proof of this view of life and death. The Big Dipper is a constellation symbolizing death and resurrection. This view of life and death may not suddenly appear now, and we will naturally think that it was handed down from ancient times. "
"From a global perspective, in the era of Stonehenge culture, people like to use the southeast direction as the direction for placing graves. South Korea's stone tombs have no specific orientation, but only sex has a clear orientation, which is the southeast. This means that sex caves reflect the cultural characteristics of prehistoric times. " If we say that some sex points record the signs of constellations, what does that mean? First of all, the constellation recorded by sex points reflects the level of an agricultural society. In addition, we can learn about a religious belief that people can ascend to heaven after death. However, there is more important significance than this.
"South Korea's modern science began during the Japanese imperialist rule and was developed by the Japanese. Traditional science was also introduced from China in the Han Dynasty (BC 108-BC 107). Both modern science and traditional science are far from autonomy. However, the constellation on the sex cave can be used as an example to prove that South Korea once had local science. "