What is Arirang?

Arirang, translated into Chinese, means "my husband". Arirang is a love story handed down from the Koryo period, which is probably equivalent to our butterfly lovers. Probably the plot is a loving young couple, living a poor life. The husband wants his wife to live a good life and go out to work to earn money, but the wife won't let him, saying that as long as they are together, they will be satisfied, but the husband doesn't think so. One night, he left quietly. The wife is very beautiful, and everyone in Shili Village knows it. After her husband left, the local ruffians in the village harassed her and asked her to remarry. She refused, but the local ruffians always harassed her. A year later, the husband came back to earn money, and the couple were happy. The local ruffians are coming again, and the village is gossiping about their wives and local ruffians. The husband became suspicious and thought his wife was unfaithful, so he had to leave again. No matter how his wife explained it, the husband still left, and his wife was chasing after him. If she can't catch up, she will sing. The content of singing is probably how to care about my husband, how to think about him, and how to be wronged. My wife sang My Husband, not Arirang. Later, Arirang's stories and songs spread and became the representative classics of the Korean nation. No matter in that corner of the world, as long as there are Koreans, there is Arirang. When you sing Arirang, you know that you are Korean. During the Japanese rule, Koreans launched an uprising in the name of Arirang. After Japan discovered it, whoever sang Arirang would be beheaded. But after killing one person with ten singers, killing ten people with a hundred singers and killing one hundred people with a thousand singers, the Japanese had to give up.

Arirang has been circulated in many versions so far, and the large-scale song and dance performance in North Korea is also a version, which tells the history of Korean national suffering, today's construction achievements and the happy life of the Korean people under the leadership of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.