When is the Spring Festival in Korea?

Korean Spring Festival and Chinese Lunar New Year fall on the same day. South Korea calls the Spring Festival "Old Jung", which corresponds to calling the New Year "Xinjeong", which means the old calendar year. The state stipulates a three-day holiday during the Spring Festival, which is the longest holiday in the year.

Chinese New Year is also traditionally called "New Year's Day", "Yuan's Day" and "New Year's Day". Since South Korea is a country in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, the customs of celebrating the Spring Festival have many similarities with China.

Koreans pay attention to going home to celebrate the New Year, which is very different from China. No matter where they work or how far away they are from their hometown, Koreans always rush back to their hometown to reunite when the Spring Festival comes. If the parents are alive, they return to their parents; if the parents are absent, the eldest brother is the father and goes to the eldest brother's house to reunite with his brothers and sisters.

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Korean Spring Festival customs:

Koreans are very particular about going home to visit relatives before New Year's Eve. Every year before New Year's Eve, there will be a scene of tens of millions of troops returning home. Seoul, which used to be bustling with traffic, suddenly became quiet; restaurants that were usually packed with guests also put up signs saying "Closed for consecutive holidays", and some posted signs saying "Open for the first time".

Korean restaurants have a long-standing custom of "not opening their doors after thirty". Koreans are very particular about making their own New Year’s Eve dinner and eating at home. They believe that the Spring Festival is a major event to honor their ancestors and pass on filial piety. Eating a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve is not only rare, but also symbolizes the prosperity of the family.

Korean New Year's Eve dinner is very particular. The biggest feature is that the food is all traditional food, and all of it is cooked by the wife. The whole family eats "five-grain rice", which is rice made from beans, soybeans, adzuki beans, black beans and rice. In addition, we have to make "cakes" and Korean-style "steamed buns". In addition to barbecue, more than a dozen kinds of wild vegetables or kimchi are served as the main course.

Baidu Encyclopedia--Korean Spring Festival