Chon-ji tul (19 moves)
In his
encyclopaedia General Choi told us:
Chon-ji literally means Heaven and Earth. In the orient it is interpreted as the creation of the world or the beginning of human history, therefore it is the first pattern practiced by the beginner. It comes in two equal parts: one to represent Heaven and the other Earth.
What
I’ve discovered
It is interesting that in this pattern meaning the Chinese theory of Yin-Yang, or opposites is evident. As this pattern is learned by the White Belt at the beginning of his journey to earn the coveted Black Belt, we can begin to see how this theory permeates through Eastern philosophy. The symbol which represents Yin-Yang can be found on the Korean national flag, T’aeguk-ki, which also uses symbols representing the opposites of Heaven and Earth, Fire and Water.
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Chon-Ji also has another spiritual interpretation as
Lake Chon-Ji is said to be the spiritual home of the Korean people, as
It is never
easy to translate Korean words into English, but ‘Chon’ can mean Heaven while
‘Ji’ can mean Earth.
The two words
combined together, however can have slightly different meanings, Lake Chon-Ji
is the ‘Heavenly’ Lake, located in a crater on Paektu-San (White Headed
Mountain also Ever-White Mountain) located on the border between China and
North Korea, which was the first residency of the legendary Dan-Gun before he
established his capital at Asadal (now Pyongyang) in 2333 B.C.
Lake Chon-JI said
to be where Heaven
and Earth meet due
to the reflection on the water’s surface.
(Because
of the looseness of pronunciation and the two different systems of Romanising
the Korean alphabet this can be Baekdu Mountain, T can be replaced with D just
as P can be replaced with B and K with G, please keep this in mind when you
research other sites)
For
sources of this information please see the bibliography section of the site.
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