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Why do farmers’ dance performers wear hats with long streamers?
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In the farmers’ dance, a popular form of Korean folk dance, performers wear helmet-like hats with long streamers attached to them. The primary purpose of these streamers is to create a dynamic visual effect during the performance. At specific moments in the dance, the performers vigorously rotate their heads, causing the streamers to fly out and spin around them like whirligigs.1