The Legend of Shangyuan Festival in Korea

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China with a history of more than two thousand years. According to legend, the Lantern Festival rose in the Han Dynasty. It is said that in BC 179, Zhou Bo and Chen Pingping decided the "Zhulv Rebellion" and made Liu Heng emperor. This day is the fifteenth day of the first month. In order to celebrate this victory, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty designated this day as the Lantern Festival, and went to the palace every year on the night of the Lantern Festival to have fun with the people. Lantern Festival also has the names of Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, Yuanye Festival and Yuanxi Festival. In addition to the Han nationality, there are 16 ethnic minorities in China who also celebrate this festival. Festival customs follow the Han nationality, but some are unique.

I am a Korean from Yanbian, Jilin, and I have opened a Korean restaurant. Koreans are also one of the ethnic minorities who celebrate the Lantern Festival in China. In terms of festival customs, most of them are the same as Han people, but there are also some special programs.

Send a lamp

Koreans also call the Lantern Festival "Shangyuan Festival", which is held on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. On this day, Koreans first send lanterns to their ancestral graves, then put lanterns in the hall, sky lanterns in the courtyard, wall lanterns on both sides of the courtyard door and lanterns in the river.

Erming wine, medicated rice and whole grain rice

During the festival, the whole Korean family should drink Erming wine before breakfast. It is said that drinking this wine can make their ears and eyes clear. Men, women and children should have a drink, and if they can't, they should drink a little, but they must drink Erming wine on an empty stomach. This wine is not specially made. Any wine drunk on the morning of the fifteenth day of the first month is called "Erming wine". Medicinal rice is cooked with rice and honey as basic raw materials, mixed with jujube, chestnuts and pine nuts. Because the raw materials of medicinal rice are expensive, it is not easy to get together, and sometimes it is replaced by five kinds of "five-grain rice" made of rice, millet, rhubarb rice, glutinous rice and Mi Dou. Eating five grains of rice is to pay homage to crows, so in the past, the fifteenth day of the first month was also called "taboo day". According to legend, Koreans avoided a disaster with the help of crows. People who have eaten five grains of rice can wish good weather and good harvests.