What are the strange traditions in Korea?

Spring Festival is called "Old Jung" in Korea and is the Lunar New Year. The Korean Spring Festival and the Chinese Spring Festival fall on the same day, but the traditional customs of the Korean Spring Festival are different from those in China. In South Korea, Spring Festival is the second largest national holiday after Mid-Autumn Festival. Every Spring Festival, the whole country is immersed in an atmosphere of joy and peace. Let’s take a look at what are the customs of celebrating the Spring Festival in South Korea.

The most representative Spring Festival dish spread in Korea is "rice cake soup". In addition, there are many traditional Korean Spring Festival customs, such as New Year's makeup, New Year's paintings, blessings, ancestor worship, New Year's greetings, gift-giving, Customs such as the "throw of wood" and the springboard. So what are the unique customs in Korea? First of all, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to the elders. During the New Year, children will receive lucky money. However, during the Korean Spring Festival, the lucky money given by the elders is usually packed in white paper bags. People also play a lot of folk games during the Spring Festival. Such as throwing games and springboard games. The throwing game expresses the meaning of good wishes for a good harvest.

The board means land, and throwing the board symbolizes the changes of the four seasons, which is related to the harvest of food and whether farm work can proceed smoothly. The springboard game was a game in which women who lived in the courtyard used to use a seesaw to jump high and look far into the world outside the courtyard. This game has the meaning of "If you have never played Seesaw when you are unmarried, you will not be able to play it after giving birth to a child." Or, "If you play it in the first month, you will not get sick for a year and you will be safe and healthy."

In addition, I will catch Fu Yanli. The fence is a tool used for washing rice. During the Spring Festival, every Korean household will put matches, maltose and other items with a happy meaning in the fence, and then hang them on the wall next to the door. It has the meaning of praying for blessings, so when buying People generally don't bargain when it comes to fencing. The last thing is drinking wine. During the Spring Festival, every household drinks a glass of wine called "Suijiu". On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, young people start with each person drinking a glass of wine. They believe that drinking this wine will drive away bad luck and lead to health and longevity. "The old wine is not warm" is also a characteristic of this custom.