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`The Ministry of Communications has been issuing in series postage stamps depicting Korean folkways in other to shed light on the roots of our culture by reviewing some of our traditional customs now gradually dying out. The following four serial stamps designed with tano as the theme are the 5th set in the folkways series. Tano, a Korean festive day, which is on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, used to be one of the four biggest festive holidays. Korean ancestors regarded as special the dates with the identical odd-numbers of month and day, and all the traditional festive days fall on such a date. Tano is believed to have come into being as a May festival for praying for an abundant harvest. Special events charaterizing tano day include riding on a swing, wrestling, masked plays and lion dances. It was also a custom, on this day, for women to shampoo their hair with the water bolied with sweet flag in it and to pin the hair with a rod (binyo) cut out of sweet flag wood and colored in red.`