‘Samnoin’ is a style of theater that have been made to developedin Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture since 1950. It providesthat this theater shall be upheld the traditions of ‘Shuochang(說唱)’by a theater of minority race in China, even if this is a theexclusive possession of Chinese citizens of Korean ethnicity.
The reason we notice this ‘Samnoin’ is that having been upheldtraditional play of our people in modern times.
Nonetheless, Government of China have placed in a file all ofminority race’s traditional art and culture of play, will make torevert to China tradition recently. ‘Samnoin’, also, was designated asThe Second National level-nonmaterial cultural heritage in 2008.
Thus, we need to examine concretely literary significanceshowing in ‘Samnoin’. and through this, we need to measure off themap of the dramatic art.