Customs, Culture and History of the Korean People

Clothing customs

The Korean people like to wear plain white clothes, usually short clothes and long pants.

The men's tops are slanting without buttons Korean dress, with cloth knots plus shoulders, and the bottom pants have a big crotch, and the pants are tied at the leg.

Women's shirts are made without buttons, knotted with colorful ribbons, and the long skirts are divided into tangle skirts and tube skirts (only before marriage).

Elderly women mostly wear white long skirts, middle-aged women mostly wear wrapped skirts, as long as the heel.

Young women's skirts are mostly brightly colored satin.

In recent times, men mostly wear flat white rubber shoes, and straw shoes for labor.

Women wear boat-shaped rubber shoes.

Now, except for festivals or national gatherings, the Korean people are basically *** national costume, and the Han people have little difference.

Dietary customs

The Koreans think that rice is the main, mostly rice, two rice, soup is necessary for every meal, especially like to drink soy sauce soup.

Korean kimchi

Spicy cabbage, the general system of cabbage soaked in salt water for a few days, washed, and then smeared with chili peppers, green onions, garlic, ginger and other seasonings.

Conditions can also add apples, pear slices, etc., and then cellar, half a month will be edible.

You can also use turnips, mustard greens, English cabbage and other pickles in the same way.

Cold noodles are made by pressing three parts starch and seven parts noodles.

Cooked and cooled, and then boiled with beef or chicken soup, and put licorice, pepper, pepper, ginger, monosodium glutamate, sugar and vinegar made of cold noodle soup, eaten with slices of beef, cucumber, sesame, chili pepper, and other tasty seasonings.

Dog meat is one of the meat that the Korean people like to eat, in addition to marriage and funeral and festivals do not eat dog meat, other seasons can eat dog meat.

But most of the time, the dog is killed in the ambush days or when the patient recovers to nourish.

Kill the dog hanging, four hooves bleeding, hair.

With its meat, skin and organs to make soup, meat with seasoning cold food, the flavor is delicious.

Korean drinking utensils unique style, generally a stove and two pots, the pot state deep bottom wide, especially iron cover, easy to stew, but fried vegetables inconvenience.

Generally a pot of rice, a pot of soup.

A pot of rice in the center of the table, one spoon for each person, and cool water.

The utensils were hygienic, and women used altar jars to top up the water (now gone).

Residential Customs

Most of the houses were built in the Mawei style, which was conveniently located near the water source.

The houses were built on wooden frames, with Laha braid plastered as the walls, and the roofs were sloped on all sides and covered with straw.

Each room has four or five doors (which are also windows), and indoors there is a kang through the house, where you take off your shoes and sit cross-legged.

In the countryside, a big yellow cow was kept in the east end of the house, and an oxcart and a mortar and pestle for pounding rice were placed in the yard.

In recent years, the Korean people have changed, with more brick houses and less ethnic-style interiors, and a move towards modernization.

Funeral customs

First, the head of the body to the west to the seven star board, placed in the house with offerings, when the rush to make the life jacket.

Family members and close relatives wear good funeral clothes, men wear hemp funeral hat, women wear hemp funeral circle.

The casket is placed for three days, five days, seven days, nine days.

The mourners bow three times to the body and bring gifts.

Before the funeral to wipe the body of the deceased to change clothes, and the body with a linen bundle in three places into the coffin.

At the time of burial, the family carries the coffin of the deceased and puts it in a dug grave to bury it, and the immediate family members offer sacrifices to the deceased for three years in a row.

In recent years, there has been a change in customs and practices, and there have been deep burials, cremations, and so on.

Etiquette and customs

The Korean people have very strict etiquette.

The younger generation must speak to the elders with respect; the first meeting between the peers should also use respect; and the elders on the same road, the younger must walk behind the elders; the road meets the elders who know, to ask for peace and make way; the old man set up a single table at mealtime, the father and son are not the same seat, the daughter-in-law obediently wait for the old man to eat, the whole family can only eat; the elders can not drink in front of the elders, the table, if you can't avoid the young people should be The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty and get out of the way, and then you'll be able to get out of the way.

Marriage customs

Korean young men and women in the **** the same labor or study, produce love want to be engaged, you must first to their respective old man to show the heart, later, by the parents of the man to take his son to the woman's home to propose.

If the woman's parents refuse to meet, the marriage is foretold to be incompatible.

If the two sides of the old people meet, the young man and woman can listen to the meeting, which means that there is hope for the success of the marriage.

If both parents agree, the young man should bow to the woman's parents first, and then the young woman should bow to the man's parents.

The young man and woman must also clearly express their willingness to support the elderly on both sides.

After the betrothal, choose an auspicious day.

By the male party to bring food to the female home, by the female party to invite friends and relatives *** with wine.

At nightfall, the banquet is removed and music is played.

All men and women, young and old, dance together.

Only the woman's parents go home to show that they do not want their daughter to leave home and get married.

The Korean people do not have the custom of the woman asking the man for property, but only the man buys some clothes and the girl's favorite things to give, to show the betrothal.

When the wedding is held, both men and women prepare a sumptuous banquet.

The man first prepared oxcart, the car paved with new quilt, the groom along with two or three bridesmaids, wearing a dress chest wear saffron, go to the female home to receive the bride.

To the woman's home, the groom was first pushed into an unoccupied room - indoors a table set a sumptuous banquet, the woman to the groom even poured three glasses of wine.

Afterwards, the groom will choose a little bit of each dish, wrapped in a piece of white paper, with a bottle of white wine, asked to be sent back to their own home, to show that the wedding is pleasant, the female family hospitality is very rich.

Then the woman's family gave the groom a bowl of rice, buried in three eggs.

The groom should be left with half a bowl of rice and an egg to the bride, symbolizing the **** eat a pot of rice, have the same difficulties, enjoy the same blessings, and forever into the luanfeng good.

The bridesmaids also choose a little dishes during the table, to bring home, to show the same happy.

After this ceremony, the bride and groom kneel to the old man, to thank Yucheng.

Then the bride takes her trousseau to the car and goes home with the groom.

On the way back, the driver intentionally drove the car into the rows of land and let it bumps, with the car people laughing a group of fun.

The car into the village, the village people wearing national costume, singing and dancing to meet the bride.

At this point, the male family offered a small table of food and wine to the driver.

After the feast, the car drive around the village a few times, and then drive the car to the groom's home.

The bride and groom get out of the car and walk into the house for the wedding ceremony, which is similar to the ceremony at the woman's house.

After the ceremony, the presence of men, women and children with the song **** dance.

At this time, the bride and groom "three questions and three answers", the content of which is the old man's respect, caressing the younger generation and the two sides of the oath of allegiance and such words.

After the banquet, guests return, the bride and groom into the bridal chamber.

The marriage is over.

1. Shuitian Culture

The history of the Korean people's entry into China can be roughly traced back to the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

Successive natural disasters, coupled with the tyranny of the feudal dynasty, made the life of the farmers on the Korean Peninsula difficult and exhausting.

In order to survive, they were forced to cross the Yalu River and the Tumen River to find a way to cultivate and expand their land along the Chinese border, which was sparsely populated and beyond the reach of the ruling class.

After 1876, Japanese imperialism invaded Korea until it annexed the Korean peninsula in 1910.

The bloody massacres and widespread looting also intensified the inflow of Korean border people to China.

From the middle of the 19th century, more ethnic Koreans began to move into northeast China.

By 1945, there were more than 1.7 million ethnic Koreans in the northeast.

During this century and a half of wind and rain, the Korean people have made great and indelible contributions to the development and settlement of Northeast China, the prosperity of the land, and the cause of the Chinese revolution.

It is especially worth mentioning that the Korean people are the originators of rice cultivation in the Northeast and the early spreaders of agricultural civilization.

The "paddy field culture" arising from paddy field labor has had and is having a profound impact on the Koreans, and inevitably has an important influence on their way of thinking, behavioral orientation, and value judgments. Paddy field work, the process requires the coordination of the whole and the local coordination, so naturally it has a remarkable Joint labor color.

It is difficult for even a very capable person to build a dam to hold water and open a canal to divert it.

Perhaps it is this intrinsic interconnectedness of labor that makes the Koreans particularly organized and cooperative in their production practices.

They are often accustomed to playing their individual roles in an organized system and realizing the value of their individual labor.

This is one of the historical and cultural reasons why, before the implementation of household contract management in rural areas, the Korean production teams were generally better than the Han production teams.

Another characteristic of paddy field labor is the fast pace of the labor process.

Whether you are subjectively willing or not, bare legs bent over in the cold muddy water labor, it is impossible for you to let you in the four flat, slowly to taste a labor enjoyment, the wise choice is a quick decision.

This rhythm of labor affects other aspects as well.

The Korean people shoveling, building houses or do other agricultural work, generally "dry up a wind", to a thing quickly finished, get together to drink and dance, there is no lack of sound.

In the modern market economy, the Korean people do business or go to work, the kind of day-to-day, slow-paced, low-benefit projects, is generally not very favorable.

The sense of organization and cooperation formed in the production activities, with the evolution of time, has gradually accumulated into a national cultural psychology, consciously or unconsciously reflected in all aspects of economic and social life.

The Korean people's enthusiasm for participating in collective and social affairs is generally high, and they generally do well in anything that needs to be "organized" or "done in an organization".

According to statistics, the "three wars" in the sacrifice of the Korean martyrs in Yanbian region alone 13048 people, accounting for more than 97% of the total number of martyrs in the region.

This is precisely the Korean people to maintain the dignity of the Chinese nation as a whole, at the expense of personal sacrifice of all the most vivid historical portrayal.

As we all know, the Koreans are a people who can sing and dance well.

The Korean actors and actresses do not have to dance solo than others how outstanding, however, if the rehearsal of group dance, group exercise, especially large-scale collective performance, their organization and coordination of genius, will immediately shine.

The level of organization and coordination and the performance of the exquisite degree, in the world can be called first-class.

2. Walking characteristics

The Korean people are not "living by water and grass" nomadic people, but they seem to have a natural sense of "walking".

This may be a little bit related to the historical origin that they originally walked across the river.

In the early years, the Korean farmers living in the village of Tuen Mun, there is a village in the habit of often changing houses and moving.

Originally lived well in the east of the village, I do not know what the reason is, suddenly pulled out of the camp, moved to the west.

In a couple of years, they will probably move to the south or north again.

The Han Chinese villagers living in the same village were dumbfounded: how do they take moving as a child's play, say move it?

In fact, the characteristics of the Korean people to move around, not only in the small village.

In the early days of their arrival across the river, most of them settled in the wild mountain villages in the ditches.

Later, they gradually went away.

Where did they go? Basically towards the plains.

There are two reasons: one is that there is a large area of paddy fields, more suitable for them to play their own specialties and skills; the second is that it is a little closer to modern civilization, the material and cultural life is relatively good, especially because there is a "preaching, teaching and learning" of the school, it is more convenient for their children to accept the knowledge of the fostering.

The tide of reform and opening up, so that the whole society and even the world-wide mobility of people has become a landscape of the times, this wave of movement can be described as a tide, traveling in a hurry.

The Koreans are one of the fastest and best in China to seize and utilize this opportunity to change their destiny.

They walked with such determination and panache.

Although there are also "holding clothes and stopping the road to cry," but ultimately, one after another out of the group.

Strangely enough, they did not join the crowded "migrant workers" in the army.

Because that is a kind of inefficient flow that does not yield much, and that does not meet the standard of value of the Korean people.

At home, they first went to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Dalian, Weihai, Yantai, and other fast-growing cities full of opportunities.

Very quickly.

Then they began to march to Russia, South Korea, Japan, the United States, Singapore and other places in a big way.

The exact number of people has been impossible to count.

According to authoritative estimates, since the reform and opening up, in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, at least more than 300,000 people have gone abroad.

Or a short-term visit, or a package deal trade, or a long-term job, in short, this team is very lively.

Since 1995, the amount of foreign exchange sent back through official banks has been more than 100 million dollars every year.

3. Personality of life

Each ethnic group has its own personality of life and customs, which constitute a colorful multi-ethnic family of magnificent colors.

The Koreans are also a nation with a strong personality.

The Koreans generally do not fight much in civil disputes.

Open the court at all levels, the court file, the Korean parties to the civil case is indeed very rare.

Of course, criminal cases are another story.

The fact that they do not fight civil cases does not mean that this nation lacks the consciousness of using legal weapons to protect the legitimate rights and interests of civil subjects, but there is an implicit mechanism of self-solving conflicts and disputes within their nation.

The Korean people are a straightforward, hot temperament of the people, daily life, bumping naturally a lot, but also the case of bloodshed.

But they seldom go to the government to solve these things.

Today, after the fight, the two sides to a piece tomorrow, drink a meal, often also disappear.

The Korean people are known for their respect for the elderly and love for children.

I don't know which other ethnic group in the world can put the "Children's Day" and "Elderly Day" as the Korean people as amazing, no more grand, warm, and joyful.

In Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, "June 1" Children's Day is a "big festival".

This day is the whole state people **** with the festival.

In the Children's Palace, on the shady lawns of the park, and on the banks of the mountainside streams, there are people dressed in festive costumes.

Even if this day is not a "double holiday", the leaders at all levels and all the people have agreed to regard it as a day of rest.

The children were greatly entertained and the adults savored and longed for the sweetness of hope again in the friendly atmosphere of the festival.

The "Hwaja" of the Korean elders is definitely the grandest celebration of life in the world.

Every time you attend such a ceremony, you see the old people accepting the kneeling of the younger generation, drinking the rice wine offered by the younger generation, intoxicated in the festive atmosphere of singing and laughing, watching the old people that kind of peace, that kind of satisfaction, that kind of smile with tears, so that people will be born of a kind of solemnity and the realization of life.

This ceremony actually represents a kind of affirmation, a kind of harvest, and a kind of feeling of repayment that springs out of the blood.

Food culture generally reflects the characteristics and quality of life of an ethnic group, and the food culture of the Korean people has its unique and distinctive features not only in China, but also in the whole world.

The "soup culture" of the Korean people is one of the best in the world, and I don't know which other ethnic group in the world can play the "soup culture" as well as the Korean people.

Whether in the countryside, or in the city, whether it is a festival, or daily life, they are fond of soup, can not leave.

Dog meat soup, beef soup, pork soup, river fish soup, sea vegetable soup, tofu soup, cake soup, cold noodle soup, sauce soup ...... can be divided into a number of types depending on the variety of sauce used.

The Koreans like to soak their rice in soup.

When you are a guest in a Korean home, it is not unusual for leftovers to appear in bowls and pots, but generally the soup cannot be left over.

It is not an exaggeration to say that without soup, especially miso soup, the life of the Korean people is almost as intolerable as the absence of the sun.

"Dog meat soup" is the representative work of the Korean "soup culture".

According to Korean medicine, dog *** has the effect of warming the middle and tonifying the kidneys, nourishing the face and beauty, and strengthening the body, and it is especially effective when eaten during the hot days.

Korean hospitality guests, served a table of dog meat feast, is a higher courtesy.

In the past, when life was difficult, it was not easy to kill a dog, and it was often necessary to add three or four times the water, repeatedly boiled and eaten.

Now, eating dog meat is a very common thing.

According to rough statistics, the Yanbian region annually consumes about 300,000 dogs for meat, and less than 100,000 real estate dogs.

So the dog traders have traveled all over the country, inside and outside the Great Wall.

Of course, the authorities of the Autonomous Prefecture are very concerned about this contradiction between the "big market and small industry", and have been developing meat dog breeding in a fruitful way.