Master Baekgyeol百結先生
1Master Baekgyeol
百結先生，不知何許人。居狼山下，家極貧，衣百結若懸鶉，時人號為東里百結先生。嘗慕榮啓期之為人，以琴自隨，凡喜怒悲歡不平之事，皆以琴宣之。歲將暮，隣里舂粟，其妻聞杵聲曰：「人皆有粟舂之，我獨無焉，何以卒歲？」先生仰天嘆曰：「夫死生有命，富貴在天。其來也不可拒，其往也不可追。汝何傷乎？吾為汝，作杵聲以慰之。」乃鼓琴作杵聲，世傳之，名為碓樂。
It is not known what sort of man Master Baekgyeol was. He lived below Nangsan, and his house was very poor, and his clothes were patched in a hundred places and hung upon him like a quail, and the people of the time called him Master Baekgyeol of Dongni.
He had long admired the way Rong Qiqi lived, and he kept a geomungo always with him, and everything that made him glad or angry or sad or merry or ill at ease he poured out through the geomungo.
The year was drawing to its close, and in the neighboring village they were pounding millet. His wife heard the sound of the pestle and said, "Everyone else has millet to pound, and we alone have none. How shall we see out the year?"
The master looked up to heaven and sighed. "Dying and living have their appointed lot, and wealth and rank rest with heaven. What comes cannot be turned away, and what goes cannot be chased. Why should you grieve? I will make the sound of the pestle for you, and comfort you with it."
Then he played the geomungo and made the sound of the pestle, and it was handed down in the world, and its name is Daeak (碓樂).