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The Tale of Sim Cheong

Card meaning

Upright - someone goes into the water so that another may see. Today's price is high, and it is paid for someone else.

Reversed - do the arithmetic before promising three hundred sacks of rice.

The card meanings are a game.

The tale

Sim Cheong lives with her blind father.

To open his eyes she promises three hundred sacks of offering rice.

She sells herself to sailors and throws herself into the Indangsu waters.

She returns borne in a lotus flower and becomes queen.

At a feast she meets her father and his eyes open.

Where you can see this in Korea now

We have not yet measured which places connect to this tale.

Sources

한국민족문화대백과사전 「심청전」

국립한글박물관 「심청전」 판본 해설

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