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Etiquette and culture in Korea

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Korean folk culture: There are many interesting folk customs in Korea, and most of them still keep the back frame: the back frame is one of the most intimate props in Korean handling tools. Directly carried on the shoulders, as daily necessities, used to carry things. Used to transport firewood, agricultural products, etc. Bedwetting ghost: In the past, if Korean children peed on bedding, they had to wear dustpans to beg for salt the next morning. This is an educational custom.

Dice game:

This is a popular folk game between the first day of the first month and the fifteenth day of the first month, which is loved by men, women and children. The game method is to roll the dice and move the pieces to decide the outcome. Dice has five names: pig, dog, sheep, cow and horse. It is a common animal in daily life. According to their size and walking speed.

Flap clothes:

Late at night in winter, my mother-in-law slaps her clothes with laughter, but I don't know it's dead of night. It's really beautiful. After washing clothes, women beat them with sticks to make them as straight and bright as new clothes.

Plough:

As an agricultural country, Koreans must cultivate land to sow seeds. There are many kinds of farmers who cultivate land, among which plough is an agricultural tool that uses cattle power. Korean traditional farm tools to show the wisdom of ancestors.

Pouring rice and rice cakes:

Mortar is an agricultural tool, which is used to mash grains or grind them into powder. The wooden hammer is a prop for beating cakes. In order to make rice cakes, Korean women pound rice into flour with a mortar and then steam it in a pot. Then the man struck it with a wooden hammer and it softened. You can often see this situation when making white rice cakes in the first month.

Cut gourd:

Koreans use gourd to eat pickles or make other daily necessities, which is one of the most practical plants. In The Story of Happiness, the gourd brings richness and happiness to the kind people. Autumn also brings rich scenes to farmers.

Springboard:

One of Korean women's favorite folk games. Popular at the beginning of the year, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other major festivals. Mainly games with a large amount of activity that young women like. A long wooden board with straw bales or sacks in the middle, with one person standing at each end of the board, and then jumping up in turn.

In Korea, when men meet, they will bow slightly, shake hands or hold hands. Bow when breaking up. Men can't shake hands with women. When talking, you should avoid topics such as Korean domestic politics, Japanese trade friction, and the host's wife. Koreans have high self-esteem, so when talking with them, you should avoid public criticism or dissent.

South Korea values men. When going out, the lady let the man go first, and the speech at the banquet began with "ladies and gentlemen". On occasions such as banquets, men and women engage in social activities separately. When two people are talking in the corridor, let a third person pass between them.

In Korea, the elderly are given special respect. You can't smoke in front of them, and take off your sunglasses when you talk to them.

Etiquette for visiting Korean friends

South Korea is known as the "state of etiquette", and Koreans attach great importance to the cultivation of etiquette and morality. Respecting the elderly is a traditional etiquette observed by Koreans.

Koreans are hospitable. Whenever a guest comes to visit, he will always hold a welcoming ceremony with appropriate specifications according to his status to receive foreign heads of state. According to international practice, a grand welcoming ceremony should be held, and thousands of people stand on both sides of the street to welcome or see them off. The scene is grand. No matter what occasion they meet foreign friends, Koreans are always polite, warmly greet, talk appropriately, take the initiative to make way and wave goodbye.

When you are invited to a Korean friend's house, the host family should make full preparations in advance and clean the indoor and outdoor. Koreans have a strong sense of time. People always wait for guests at the appointed time, and some families even want the whole family to meet them outdoors. When the guests arrived, the host bowed to welcome them and warmly welcomed them into the house, with drinks, fruits and other entertainment. Koreans have always been generous in hospitality, and the host always wants to keep guests for dinner. Many families also want to keep their guests away from home for a few days and entertain them with rich meals.

Social Etiquette and Dietary Customs in Korea

Koreans like to entertain guests with dog meat. When the guests come, buy a dog, kill it, cook it into dog broth with the skin, serve it with cold dishes, entertain the guests to drink, tear the dog meat and drink the broth.

To make pork soup, you should use boiled dog meat soup, add cooked shredded dog meat, refined salt, Chili noodles, coriander, shredded onion and cooked sesame seeds, and then add soy sauce, mustard sauce, chives and Chili noodles at will. Delicious dog meat is shredded, and shredded onion, Jiang Mo, minced garlic, coriander, clear salt, cooked sesame seeds and edible meat are added.

Cooked dog heart, kidney, liver, etc. It can be sliced or mixed with the above seasonings, which is also a traditional dining table for entertaining guests.

Korean food "ceremony"

The internal structure of Korean restaurants can be divided into two types: using chairs and taking off shoes to get on the kang.

When eating on the kang, men sit cross-legged and women stand on their right knees-this sitting posture is only used when wearing Hanbok. Nowadays, Korean women don't wear hanbok at ordinary times, just put their legs together and sit down. After sitting on the dishes, in a short time, the aunt in the restaurant will take out the tableware first, and then the dishes.

Koreans usually use flat-headed chopsticks made of stainless steel. Both China and Japan have the habit of eating with rice bowls, but Koreans think this behavior is not standardized. And don't touch your job with your mouth. A bowl with a round bottom and a cover is sitting on the table, and there is no handle for you to hold. Coupled with the heat from the rice to the bowl, it is reasonable not to touch it. As for the bowl cover, you can take it off and put it on the table at will.

Since you are acting recklessly, your left hand must be obedient, hide under the table honestly, and don't "shine" on the table. The right hand must first pick up the spoon, take a sip of soup from pickles, then take a bite of rice with the spoon, then take another bite of soup and rice, and then you can eat whatever you want. This is the order in which Koreans eat. Spoons are more important than chopsticks in Korean diet. They are responsible for filling soup, fishing for soup dishes and filling rice. When not in use, put it on a rice bowl or other utensils. And chopsticks? It is only responsible for picking vegetables. Under no circumstances can you take bean sprouts out of your soup bowl with a spoon, and you can't use chopsticks. First of all, there is the problem of food ceremony, and secondly, soup may flow down the chopsticks to the table. When chopsticks don't hold vegetables, the traditional Korean practice is to put them on the table in the right hand direction, with two chopsticks close together, two-thirds on the table and one-third outside the table, which is convenient to take and use.

Koreans are an emotional people. We should fully understand how we express our feelings through dinner, and at the same time rationally admit that it is an unsanitary "food gift".

Korean drinking etiquette

If a Korean has a distinguished guest at home, the host will feel very honored and usually treat him with good wine and food. Guests should drink as much as possible and eat more vegetables. The more you eat, the more proud your master will be.

Koreans are very polite when drinking. At the banquet, wine is poured according to status, status and seniority, and the person with the highest status raises his glass first, followed by others in turn. If the grade and seniority are too different, you can't drink at the same table. Under special circumstances, the younger generation and subordinates can drink with their backs to each other.

The traditional concept is that "the right is superior to the left", so it is considered impolite to hold a cup or wine with your left hand.

With permission, subordinates and juniors can propose a toast to their superiors and elders. The toaster holds the bottle in his right hand, holds the bottom of the bottle in his left hand, bows, and pours wine for his superiors and seniors for three cups in a row, but the toaster doesn't drink it himself. It should be noted that when people of different status are drinking and clinking glasses together, people with low status should hold the cup lower, touch the other side's cup body with the rim of the cup, and can't touch it horizontally or hold the cup higher than the other side, otherwise it is impolite.