When is the Korean New Year?

As we all know, the concept of New Year is different in the East and the West. Although the whole world takes Gregorian calendar 65438+ 10 1 as the beginning of the New Year, most countries in the East still take the first day of the first lunar month as the beginning of the New Year. Farmers are the foundation of the world. For Koreans who are mainly farmers, the custom of solar terms is based on the lunar calendar. Therefore, before the emergence of the solar calendar at the end of the Han Dynasty, Koreans always welcomed the New Year with the lunar calendar as the standard. Chinese New Year is Yuan Day, Yuan Dynasty, New Year's Day, Sanyuan, Shisan, Sui Shou, Zheng Chao, Spring Festival, Chen Yuan, Danri and so on.

There is a strong filial piety in ancestor worship and Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival (the first day of the first month) is the biggest festival of the Korean nation. Every holiday, there will be a big national movement, when half of the population will return home to visit relatives. People visiting relatives in the province should book a bus ticket to their hometown a few months ago, or go home by car a few days before the festival, when the roads in the whole country will be crowded.

Koreans' Spring Festival is based on the idea of ancestor worship and filial piety. Therefore, the Spring Festival is also a sacred moment for children and grandchildren to reunite with their ancestors, communicate with each other and enhance their feelings. However, today, in addition to the above-mentioned "sacred" meaning, holidays are also the best time for people trapped in urban life and industrial society to escape from the tense and depressed urban environment and gain freedom.

A few days before the Spring Festival, most people will go back to their hometown to visit relatives. On the morning of New Year, people put on national costumes and greet each other. At this time, people will have a sense of national unity of the same nation. Therefore, no matter from the perspective of society or the country, the role of the Spring Festival in enhancing national consciousness and unity consciousness has surpassed that of a simple festival.

One of the most important New Year customs on the first day of the first lunar month is to pay New Year greetings. After paying homage to ancestors, they will pay New Year greetings to grandparents, parents, relatives, elders and neighbors. People who come to pay New Year greetings, if they are adults, should treat each other with food and wine. If you are a child, you have to give it a line. On this day, no matter who meets, they should say New Year greetings, such as "Happy New Year!" "Congratulations on making a fortune", "I wish you health" and "I will be admitted to the university this year" are also called blessings. On the first day of New Year's Day, we should prepare a sacrificial table and a New Year's Eve dinner to receive the guests who come to pay New Year's greetings. Either way, the representative food of this day is rice cake soup. So eating rice cake soup also means celebrating the New Year and getting one year older.

Happy new year is the bond that keeps the family together.

The most interesting custom on the first night of the first lunar month is to drive away "luminous ghosts". It is said that on this day, luminous ghosts wander from house to house, try on everyone's shoes, and take them away when they meet the fit. Anyone who loses his shoes on this night can imagine his luck. So that night, most people put their shoes in the back room and turn off the lights early to sleep. In order to prevent your shoes from being taken away by luminous ghosts, you should put a sieve or basket on the post or gate. This is because luminous ghosts have a habit of counting things when they see them. When he sees a sieve or basket, he will count the meshes on it. When he finished counting, it was dawn. By the time the rooster crowed, he had forgotten to try on his shoes and ran away.

Koreans call "Shangyuan" on the 15th day of the first lunar month "King's Day". People like the fifteenth day of the first month just as they like the New Year.

On this day, people will go on a diet, eat five-grain rice cooked with more than five kinds of grains and pray for a bumper harvest. On this day, you should also eat peanuts, pine nuts, chestnuts and other hard fruits. Eat in the same amount as your age, and pray for health while eating.

It is said that on this day, there is still the custom of getting up early in the morning and shouting "selling summer heat" and selling it to others. If you sell summer heat, you can guarantee that you won't get heatstroke this summer.

In the folk games on the fifteenth day of the first month, the most representative ones are "flying kites" and "releasing mice". "Setting fire to rats" means burning weeds on the ridge of the field on the night of the fifteenth day of the first month to drive away ghosts and welcome the sacred spring. When weeds burn, they will burn the eggs of pests, drive away mice and fertilize the fields.

Flying a kite is a game that people all over the world like. Koreans mainly fly kites from the first day to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Most kites are hung with banners that say "eliminate disasters and welcome happiness". When the sun goes down, they will break the silk thread to fly kites. It is said that this will help prevent diseases, accidents and famine years, that is, get rid of disasters and welcome happiness.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, pray for healthy folk games.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, pray for healthy folk games.

At present, the New Year in Korean society is influenced by pragmatism and economic development, and new changes have taken place. With the development of communication technology, a new custom is taking shape. For example, call New Year's greetings through the Internet, greet friends and relatives overseas through the computer, or send a video email to express greetings.

As you can imagine, the day of "online sacrifice" for the whole family through the video conference system on the Internet is not far away.

In South Korea, whether to celebrate the Year of the Sun or the Lunar New Year has always been a controversial topic. Most people think that there should be only one New Year. If you want to choose, you should choose the lunar new year, that is, the Spring Festival.

According to the survey, about half of people spend their holidays at home on New Year's Day. They either rest at home or travel with their families. During the Spring Festival holiday, most of them go back to their hometown to visit relatives, and this trend is becoming more and more obvious.

The time-honored New Year custom has an unchangeable inertia. No matter how westernized today's society is, no matter how the government advocates the solar calendar, or even implements the solar calendar system in administration, the lunar calendar is still the most basic part of Korean life culture.