This article deals with the recorded writings of the stone-battle, its source in the folks, its historical development, and its athletic characteristics. The main points can be described as follows:1. Although phyeonjyeon or pyeonjeon ‘group-battle...
This article deals with the recorded writings of the stone-battle, its source in the folks, its historical development, and its athletic characteristics. The main points can be described as follows:1. Although phyeonjyeon or pyeonjeon ‘group-battle’ was used as a term for the stone-battle, it had better be replaced by the seokcheon ‘stone-battle’ because it contains the athletic properties of group exercies.2. In spite of various arguments for the source of stone-battle, the stone-battle might be derived in the point of physical science, from stone-pitching in the human basic activities which consist physically of running, jumping, an pitching. The stone had been used weapon since the stone-battle in Yi-Dinasty was utilized as the training for the real battle or just in the battle itself. It was transmitted as an anual playing among the people. In the late Yi-Dinsaty it had nearly kept its from in the astrological custom predicting good and evil.3. The existence of the stone-battle entirely indicates that there was an athletic element in the stone-battle by the Korean folks for a long time.