What can't be done in Korean traditional festivals and customs?

Korean is one of the 56 ethnic minorities in China. Korean is also versatile and has its own traditional festivals. What traditional festivals do Korean people have? What can't be done in these festivals? Next, let's take a look at this minority festival!

Korean traditional festivals

the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

Koreans who can sing and dance well have a colorful holiday life. On New Year's Eve, the whole family stayed up all night, and the ancient music of gayageum and Dong Xiao brought people into a new realm. During the festival, men, women and children indulge in singing and dancing, springboard pressing and tug-of-war. And the venue is very lively and people are eager to watch it. On the fifteenth night of the first month, a traditional celebration was held. Several old people boarded the wooden "moon-looking frame" to see the bright moon first, which meant that his children and grandchildren were healthy and all the best. Then, everyone sang and danced around the brightly lit "full moon building" with the music of long drums, flutes and suona until they had a good time.

the Lantern Festival

The traditional Spring Festival of Koreans. It is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, and the festival lasts for one day. On this day, Koreans should first send lanterns to ancestral graves, then put lanterns in the hall, hang sky lanterns in the yard, hang wall lanterns on both sides of the courtyard door and put lanterns in the river. On this day, we will take medicine and rice, whole grain rice and drink conga wine. Medicinal rice takes glutinous rice and honey as basic raw materials. Mix jujube, chestnut, pine nuts, etc. And cooking. Because the raw materials of medicinal rice are expensive, it is not easy to get them all. Generally, five kinds of "five-in-one rice" such as rice, millet, rhubarb rice, glutinous rice and Mi Dou are used instead. Looking forward to the bumper harvest of grain that year. In the evening, everyone held torches at the height of Dongshan to welcome the full moon. Whoever is blessed in that year will see the full moon rising. After welcoming the moon, men, women and children will step on the bridge in the moonlight. Stepping on a bridge, also known as stamping a bridge. In Korean, "bridge" and "leg" are homophonic, which means practicing legs with a bridge. When stepping on the bridge, everyone has to go back and forth on the bridge several times to dozens of times, and the number of times must be commensurate with their age, so as to pray for blessings and eliminate disasters.

A baby's birthday festival

It's the baby's first birthday. The first anniversary of a baby is the most important in Korean life ceremonies. The celebration of the baby's first anniversary is also grand. When the baby's birthday comes, the baby's mother dresses herself up beautifully, then dresses the child in a set of elaborate national costumes, and then carries the child to the prepared birthday table so that the baby can "have a look" at the "playing with water" specially arranged for him. There will be some symbolic things on the table, such as cakes, sweets, food, pens, books and small guns. After all the guests arrived, the baby's mother asked the child to take anything he liked from all kinds of things on the table. When the child reached for something from the table, the guests cheered and said something to make them happy. This process is called the "ceremony" of the baby's birthday table. In some places, there is a custom that old people put an ordinary white line around their children's necks to show that they hope their children can be white like the white line and live as long as the long line.

Shampoo Festival

June 15th of the lunar calendar is the Korean shampoo festival. This day is considered an auspicious day. Early in the morning, men, women and children went to the river to wash their hair. It is said that it is lucky to wash your hair with the stream flowing eastward. In the evening, people will hold a shampoo banquet and sing shampoo songs at home, and then the whole family, old and young, will happily sit together and have a sumptuous dinner.

Return to the wedding festival

Among Korean family festivals, the most grand one is the "Returning Wedding Festival", also known as the "Returning Wedding Festival", which is the 60th anniversary of marriage. Holding a wedding festival must meet the following three conditions: First, the old couple are alive; Second, the biological child is alive; Third, no grandchildren died. If there are dead children or grandchildren, you can't hold a wedding festival. Therefore, it is a great honor for anyone to hold a wedding festival, and relatives and friends should come to congratulate them. An old couple put on their wedding dresses when they were young and helped each other to sit at the dinner table. Everyone frequently raises a glass to bless, which is more lively and grand than the wedding of young people.

Thousand-person needle festival

"Thousand-person needle" refers to a cloth belt with pictures sewn by many people. When young people are drafted into the army, they are put on their shoulders as a symbol of defeating the enemy. This custom is related to an old legend. It is said that a long time ago, there was a rich village where people lived a free and happy life. One day, a powerful demon came and killed the villagers. The strong man in the village was eaten by it because he was not strong enough to fight it. There was a young man who was determined to get rid of this demon and looked for ways everywhere.

A wise man told the young man to find 1000 daughter-in-law (widows are not allowed) to sew a belt, which has the wisdom and strength of 1000 people and can be used in beat the devil. The young man did as the wise man said, made a "thousand-man needle" and put it on his body to fight the devil, and really defeated the devil. Therefore, the "Thousand Needles" became a symbol of the guarantee of victory, passed down from generation to generation. Whoever has a conscript will take a cloth belt and ask someone to sew these 1000 stitches for good luck.

In the wave of resisting Japan and saving the nation in modern times, the "thousand-person needle" has developed again. In the 1930s, the Japanese invaders invaded the northeast of China. Many patriotic Korean women living in Yanbian, regardless of whether their families joined the army or not, held cloth belts and sewed "thousands of stitches" for each other at stations, docks and even on the streets. When sewing, he also said some words cursing the Japanese aggressors and blessing the anti-Japanese soldiers.

the Lantern Festival

Burn oak wood into charcoal, press it into powder, add salt, wrap it in paper into sausage shape, and wrap it with thin straw rope. At night, if you tie it to a long pole and light it, it will crackle and send out dazzling sparks. On the fifth day and autumn night, men compete in wrestling and women compete in springboard and swing.

Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May in the old calendar is the most lively folk sports festival among the traditional festivals of the Korean people. In the past, every Dragon Boat Festival, villages and towns where Koreans lived in concentrated communities generally carried out various folk sports activities, mainly including swinging, springboard and wrestling. The most famous is the Dragon Boat Festival swing.

Chusek

August 15th in the old calendar is called Autumn Evening, also called Mid-Autumn Festival. At this time, early rice can introduce new rice, and all kinds of fruits are ripe. In autumn and evening, people take food and fresh fruit made of new rice to their graves for weeding and sacrifice. The traditional food in autumn is muffins. On this day, Korean villagers usually slaughter cattle, cut the meat and internal organs into small pieces, divide them into many parts, put them on Vitex negundo and distribute them to households. Various sports competitions, such as wrestling, swings and springboard, are also held in autumn and evening, and some villages also hold bullfights.

What can't be done in Korean holiday customs?

Taboos in Korean production and life fully show the unique customs and habits of Korean people. In the marriage customs of Korean people, it has always been that the same surname and the same book are not married, and cousins are not married, that is, all blood relatives, no matter distant relatives or close relatives, are not allowed to get married as long as they meet.

There are also many taboos in Korean funerals. Funeral taboo double-day, that double-day funeral means that two people will die, so the funeral must be held on a single day.

Korean women have many taboos after pregnancy, such as not eating ducks, rabbits, dogs and pork. It is said that pregnant women who eat duck will give birth to children with webbed hands and feet; Eating rabbit meat will make children grow red eyes; Eat dog meat, the child will die early; Eating pork makes children's skin rough. Pregnant women can't climb over the wall for fear that the baby will behave badly. You can't cross the reins. If you straddle the reins, you will be pregnant 12 months. You can't sit on a broom, and you can't touch things like pottery steamer and crock, because these things are elves. You can't watch people do funerals, move graves, put out fires and so on. People who have given birth to babies hang a straw rope on the gate as a forbidden rope, and outsiders are forbidden to enter.

Koreans pay great attention to etiquette and politeness. The etiquette and morality of Koreans, with respect for the elderly and guests, filial piety to parents, respect for teachers and mutual courtesy as the main contents, restricts a person's words, deeds and every move. It is manifested in speaking politely, walking politely, eating politely and entertaining guests with three meals. One is to send meals to the elderly and elders, and set a single table for the elderly and guests. Daughter-in-law or children respectfully put the food in front of the elderly, and the whole family can eat it only after the elderly and elders hold spoons. Put the spoon in the soup bowl when eating. If you put the spoon on the table, it means that you have finished eating. When the younger generation doesn't drink or smoke in front of their elders, when they can't avoid it, young people drink with their backs to show their respect.