What are the ethnic customs of the Korean people

The Korean nation (Korean:, English: Korean), also known as the Korean nation (Han:), the Korean people, the Koryo people, the Beta people, etc., is one of the major ethnic groups in East Asia.

Daily Customs:

The younger generation cannot drink or smoke in front of their elders; when smoking, the younger generation is not allowed to borrow a fire from the old man, let alone catch the fire, or it is considered a disrespectful behavior.

When traveling with elders, young people must walk behind them, and if there is an urgent need to overtake them, they must respectfully explain the reason to the elders; on the way, when elders are approaching, young people should respectfully stand by the side of the road to ask for permission to give way to the elders.

The younger generation must speak to their elders with respect, and the younger generation should also speak with respect when they meet each other for the first time.

The meal should be served to the elderly first, and a single table should be set for them, and the whole family should eat only after the elderly have raised their spoons to the table. When eating, the spoon should be placed in the bowl of soup; if it is placed on the table, it means that it has been eaten.

Dogs are not killed or eaten during weddings, funerals and festivals.

Wedding customs:

The traditional wedding of the Korean people mainly consists of three stages: the wedding, the grand ceremony and the post-ceremony. Its a traditional folk custom of the Korean people, which was gradually formed under the influence of Confucian ideological concepts.

The negotiation of marriage includes checking the Gonghwa (comparing the birthdates of the man and woman), writing the marriage contract, and Jokgil (determining the date of marriage). The grand ceremony includes the presentation of a gift letter (bride box) from the groom's family to the bride's family, the ceremony of laying the geese, the ceremony of handing over worship, the ceremony of fm radio, and the acceptance of the grand table by the groom. The latter ceremony includes the bride's visit to the groom's house to receive the daejeon, and the next day's ceremony for the bride to meet her aunts and uncles. Korean people usually do not divorce after marriage, and they hold the ceremony of offering wooden geese during the wedding to symbolize the couple's desire to live together forever.

The Koreans attach great importance to the four major rituals of life: crown, marriage, funeral and burial. Young men and women can choose their spouses only after the ceremony of crown and maturity. The ancestors of the Joseon people had long practiced the "marriage of the man to the woman's home", i.e., the bridegroom held the wedding in the bride's home and lived in the bride's home for a number of years, then led his wife and children to return to their own homes. During the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), the rulers, under the influence of Confucianism, regarded this marriage custom as a bad custom of "inverting heaven and earth" and "yang against yin", and strongly advocated the implementation of the practice of "taking the bride back to the groom's home" on the day of the wedding according to the Confucian viewpoint. strongly advocate the implementation of the bride on the day of marriage in accordance with the Confucian viewpoint of the bridegroom's home "personal welcome" approach. However, due to the obstruction of customary forces, it was difficult to implement, so they created the "semi-parental welcome" method, which is a compromise between the traditional "man returns to woman's home" method and the Chinese "parental welcome" method. In this way, the bridegroom stays at the bride's house for only two days after the wedding, and on the third day, he takes the bride back to the bridegroom's house. The "half-parent-welcome" method has become the main method of marriage for the Korean people in modern times.

Before the 1950s, the Korean people in China practiced two ways of marriage: "semi-parent-welcome" and "parent-welcome", with "semi-parent-welcome" as the main way. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the two methods were standardized.

The traditional wedding of the Korean people is based on the Confucian concept of marriage as a cultural connotation, and has a distinctive symbolism in the wedding form. This symbolic feature of the traditional Korean wedding is in sharp contrast to the Western wedding vows. At the same time is also the Korean people in the process of long-term historical development, and the Han and other ethnic cultures have developed into a folklore, a unique Korean culture.