What are the living customs of Koreans?

Koreans live on a kang, men generally sit cross-legged, and women generally sit on their knees, so most of their clothes are loose. Koreans generally like white clothes and plain clothes, showing their love for purity and simplicity, so they are called "white people".

2. Diet:

In the traditional diet, rice and vegetables are the basic diet, and dishes are usually characterized by spicy food.

In the daily diet, rice is generally the staple food, soup is the non-staple food, and there are various tastes. Koreans have always been vegetarians. They don't like greasy food. Their dietary characteristics can be summarized as spicy, cool and light.

Koreans like dog meat. However, don't eat dog meat on holidays, weddings, funerals or when moving.

3. Etiquette:

(1) the first birthday

On children's first birthday, children wear beautiful birthday clothes, and boys usually wear a "coat" with a small vest, blue pants and towels. The girl is wearing a colorful silk "lamb" and a red silk skirt. On the birthday, the most striking activity is "grasping the week", which symbolizes the prediction of fate.

② Wedding

Korean weddings are conducted in accordance with the procedures of "wedding ceremony", "receiving gifts", "collecting coins" and "welcoming relatives". The wedding ceremony is that parents negotiate their children's marriage through the matchmaker, and the bride price is given by the groom's family to show their gratitude for the engagement of the woman's family. The wedding ceremony is the wedding ceremony, which is the most important and grand ceremony in the whole wedding.

③60-year-old flower armor.

On the day of flowers, the children held birthday parties and banquets for the elderly, and invited relatives, friends and neighbors to get together to thank their parents for their kindness and wish the elderly a long and healthy life.

The main content of the flower path is "offering longevity", that is, the younger generation toasts and bows to the elders in turn. Birthday gifts are arranged in order of children, relatives and guests.

After giving gifts, the old people and women distributed the food at the birthday party to the young people and children present. People believe that eating food at birthday parties will make people grow up healthily.

4. Funeral:

In the past, most Koreans carried out burial.

After the death of the old man, relatives are not allowed to wash their faces, have their hair cut or eat dry food for three days. They must go to Dai Xiao.

When relatives and friends come to pay their respects, they kowtow three days before the body, and then kowtow to each other with relatives of the deceased.

The funeral must be held on the same day. Dress the dead with new clothes and burn the old ones. Buried in three days. Before burial, please ask Mr. Feng Shui to choose a cemetery. The cemetery should be located on the sunny side of the hillside, with the head facing the top of the mountain and the feet facing down. After burial, the tomb was offered offerings and bowed down.

Sacrifice for three days after burial and before meals: on the first day, the sacrifice is called "Out of the Cloud", on the second day it is called "Cloud Worship", and on the third day, it is called "Three Clouds" to bring offerings to the cemetery.

Every birthday, anniversary, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc. Should be sacrificed.

Now most of the burial has been changed to cremation, and the procedures are becoming more and more simplified.

Step 5 dance

Korean dances mainly include farm music dance, long drum dance, fan dance, elephant hat dance, top water dance and knife dance.

6. Musical instruments

Korean traditional musical instruments include gayageum, Tongxiao and Xiqin.

Gayageum is the first traditional stringed instrument of Korean nationality, and it is a plucked instrument with strong national color. Its shape is similar to the guzheng of the Han nationality. When playing, one end is on the ground and the other end is on the leg. Playing with the right hand and playing with the left hand, the performance posture is steady, elegant and unique.

Tong Xiao is an important wind instrument in Korean national music, which has been favored by Korean people since its birth. Its timbre is very beautiful, and it is a tenor instrument among bamboo instruments.

Xiqin is a bowstring instrument that Koreans like to use. According to legend, it was created by the Xi tribe in the northeast of China in the Song Dynasty, hence the name.

7. Religious belief

Historically, Koreans believed in many religions, including primitive animism, Buddhism and Christianity. , as well as ethnic and religious beliefs produced in modern times, such as Taoism, Buddhism, Buddhism, Buddhism, Buddhism and so on. In addition, some people believe in Buddhism and Confucianism.

After the reform and opening up, with the re-implementation of the policy of freedom of religious belief, the influence of Christianity in Korean religious belief has gradually expanded, and the number of believers has also increased significantly. At present, the religious beliefs of Koreans are mainly Christianity and Catholicism, especially Christianity has developed rapidly.

Extended data

Korean nationality is one of the cross-border ethnic groups in China, which was gradually formed when the neighboring Korean Peninsula moved in and settled in the northeast. Mainly distributed in Jilin, Heilongjiang and northeastern Liaoning, mainly living in Tumen River, Yalu River, Mudanjiang River, Songhua River, Liaohe River and Hunhe River basins.

After the reform and opening up, the Korean population has gradually shifted from the traditional three northeastern provinces to the coastal economic open areas such as Beijing and Tianjin, the lower reaches of the Yellow River, the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the lower reaches of the Pearl River.

The term "Korean" refers to the Korean people in China, who are from China and have China nationality. Koreans living outside China don't call themselves "Koreans".

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