What are the strange traditions in Korea?

The Spring Festival is called "Lao Zheng" in Korea, which is the Lunar New Year. The Spring Festival in South Korea and China are on the same day, but the traditional customs of the Spring Festival in South Korea are different from those in China. In Korea, the Spring Festival is the second national festival after the Mid-Autumn Festival. During the Spring Festival, the whole country was immersed in a happy and peaceful atmosphere. What are the customs of celebrating the Spring Festival in Korea? Let's have a look.

The most representative Chinese New Year cuisine in Korea is "Rice Cake Sliced Soup". In addition, there are many traditional customs in Korean Spring Festival, such as makeup, New Year pictures, praying for the fence, ancestor worship, New Year greetings, gifts, "throwing four trees" and springboard. What are the unique customs in Korea? First of all, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders. Children will get lucky money during the Chinese New Year, but in Korea, the lucky money given by elders is usually wrapped in white paper bags. During the Spring Festival, people will also play many folk games. Such as paddle throwing and springboard games. The paddle throwing game expresses good wishes for a bumper year.

The board means land, and throwing the board symbolizes the change of the four seasons, which is related to the smooth progress of grain harvest and farm work. Springboard is a kind of game. Women who used to live in the yard jumped high with seesaws and looked at the world outside the yard. There is a saying in this game that "I have never played on the seesaw when I am unmarried, but I can't play when I have children" or "If I play in the first month, I won't get sick for a year, and I will be safe and healthy".

Besides, it will catch the hedge. The fence is a tool for washing rice. During the Spring Festival, every household in Korea will put matches, maltose and other items with happiness in the fence, and then hang them on the wall next to the door to symbolize blessing, so people generally don't bargain when buying fences. Finally, it is to drink old wine. During the Spring Festival, every household will drink a glass of wine called Nianjiu. On New Year's morning, young people start drinking. They believe that drinking this wine can drive away bad luck and make them live a long and healthy life. "Old wine is not warm" is also a feature of this custom.