Thousand Character Classic
Mentions of "nurungji" in folklore are common, the most famous being a folk song recognizing the difficulties of memorizing the Thousand Character Classic. The lines are changed from the original chant to a clever rhyme that loosely translates into "sky "cheon" (天), earth "ji" (地), "nurungji" in the "gamasot" (cauldron pot)". (Korean: "하늘 천, 땅 지, 가마 솥에 누룽지").