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What are the festivals of the Korean people?

The Korean folk festivals are "New Year's Day" (Spring Festival), "Sangwon" (Lantern Festival), "Sangseo" (March 3), "Hanseo" (Ching Ming Festival), "Lantern Burning Festival" (April 8), "Duanwu" (Dragon Boat Festival) (April 8), and "Duanwu" (Dragon Boat Festival). Cold Food" (Qingming Festival), "Lantern Festival" (April 8), "Dragon Boat Festival" (May 5), "Liu Tou Day" (June 5), "Autumn Festival" (June 6), "Chinese New Year" (Spring Festival), "Shangyuan" (Lantern Festival), "Shangshi" (March 3), "Cold Food" (Ching Ming Festival), "Lantern Festival" (April 8), "Duanwu" (Dragon Boat Festival), "Liu Tou Day" (June 5), and "Autumn Festival" (June 5) 5th), "Autumn Eve" (Mid-Autumn Festival), "The 9th day of the 9th lunar month" (9th lunar month), and "The Entry of the Customs", "The Winter Solstice " and so on. Among them, the first day of the first year, the first year of the first year, the cold food, the Dragon Boat Festival, the autumn eve is a big festival. In addition to making festive food and drinks, the Koreans also organize various games and sports activities for fun according to their characteristics. For example, on New Year's Eve, the Koreans celebrate in a unique way by gathering their friends and relatives, paying tribute to each other, and eating homemade rice cakes, rice wine, and "Deokgu" cake soup. In addition to singing and dancing during the Spring Festival, they also burn fires in the fields to drive away pests, and women engage in activities such as skipping and swinging, etc.; they go to their graves on the Ching Ming Festival to add soil; and they make sacrifices on the Mid-Autumn Festival to show their grief for the deceased.

There are three other family festivals, namely, Grasping Week, Hui Jia Festival (60th birthday), Hui Marriage Festival (60th wedding anniversary), the latter two are joyous days when children, relatives, friends and neighbors bless the old man with wishes for longevity.

Folk regard respect for the elderly as an important moral code. Teenagers must use honorific honorifics to the elders; in front of the elderly face is not allowed to smoke and drink, in the non-drinking occasions, but also to drink back seat; the most taboo to the old man to borrow a fire or to the fire to light cigarettes; in front of the old man is not allowed to speak foul language; meal time must be served to the old man and the elders to serve food, and to the old man and the guests to set up a single seat table. Food should be placed in front of the elderly, and the younger generation should not eat before the elderly move their chopsticks; when going out on the same road with an elderly acquaintance, the younger generation should not go in front of the elderly, and if there is an urgent need to hurry, they need to respectfully explain the reason to the elderly, and ask for permission to overtake them; when meeting an elderly person on the road, no matter whether or not they are acquainted with each other, they should greet and ask to make way for the elderly. Every family attaches great importance to the old man's birthday and organizes a "birthday banquet". The birthday celebrant, dressed in new clothes, sits in the middle of the upper table, accompanied by elderly neighbors on both sides. At the beginning of the birthday celebration, the old man and his wife, starting with the eldest son and wife and ending with the grandchildren, pour wine and kneel down to the old man in order to thank him for his hard work and upbringing. Among the family festivals of the Korean people, the most important one is the "Hoehwa Festival," also known as the "Return Marriage Festival," which marks the 60th anniversary of a marriage. It is a great honor to hold a wedding festival, and friends and relatives will come to congratulate them. A pair of old people dressed in their young wedding dresses, helped each other to the table, and everyone raised their glasses to bless it, which is more lively and grand than the wedding of young people.

They even put the 15th of August as the "Old Man's Day". In order to express the old man's feelings of respect. The Korean people have always attached importance to children, every year, "June 1" festival will be held on a grand celebration, the family to participate in the celebration. The Korean people usually also pay close attention to the children's training, not to spend a lot of money to hire tutors to develop children's intelligence, cultivate children's intelligence

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