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Korean Recreation

The Korean people love sports very much. Wrestling is their ancient sport and recreation. Playing soccer is a popular sport among men. Yanbian is known as the "home of soccer". Swinging and springboard are the favorite recreational and sports activities of Korean women.

Skipping: the traditional sports of the Korean people. Popular in Jilin, Heilongjiang, Liaoning Korean settlement. More in the Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. Participants are mostly women, the competition is carried out in 2-4 people in a group, respectively, standing in a seesaw about 5 meters long at both ends, it has a "draw line" and "show" two kinds. "Drawing line" at each end of the seesaw a line, draw the line tied to the ankles of the contestants, in the stipulated time, the length and height of the line drawn by the contestants when bouncing to determine the winner. The "show" has self-selected and prescribed action, mainly based on the contestant's jumping action difficulty and posture to score.

Swinging: It is also called "swinging" and is a traditional sport of the Korean people, which is especially loved by women and is often contested. There are several ways to evaluate the winners of the competition: one is to take the leaves or flowers on the high trees in front of the swing frame as the target, and the winner is the one who touches or bites off the leaves (flowers) with his feet; one is to hang a long rope under the pedal and measure the height of the swing, and the winner is the one who is taller; and the other is to put up two tree poles in front of the swing frame, and on the poles, pull a rope with a bell tied to it horizontally, so that the swinger decides to win by touching the bell as much as he wants to.

Wrestling: known as the "hometown of wrestling" known as the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province, has a long history of wrestling. Every Dragon Boat Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival, the four wrestlers gathered to compete for the championship, people often choose a fat yellow cow as a prize to the winner. Competition, the two sides put on special clothing, the right leg tie a bunch of white bands, each will be the left hand set into each other's band, the right hand to grab each other's belt, the referee ordered, both sides at the same time to stand up, than the high and low, after a number of rounds of competition, the winner held the yellow ox in the drums and gongs in the week around the field.

Cheolianji: Korean martial arts have a history of more than five hundred years, and the martial arts routines are based on instruments, of which "Cheolianji" is a famous instrument. Tielianji is similar to the traditional martial arts of China's Dazuezi. At the end of a shoulder-high stick, there is a ring, the ring set connected to three side-by-side into a radial short section, the length of more than a foot, dancing up with both hands holding the stick, the style of the brave, control range, there are smashing, whirling, sweeping, wrapping, cover, frame, frame, etc., with a variety of figures, exceptionally wonderful.

Top urn walking: traditional Korean sports activities. Mainly popular in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province. Often held after labor, the participants are women. Before the start of the race, the participants first head of a 10 pounds of water in the urn, standing in the starting line, the referee issued the order, that is, walking fast, each race for one hundred meters or two hundred meters. Walking, to tile urn does not fall, the water does not splash out and the first to reach the end for the win.

Korean clothing

Koreans prefer white clothing, to show clean, clean, simple, generous, so the Korean people since ancient times, "white people", called "white compatriots". Women wear short clothes and long skirts, which is also a major feature of Korean women's clothing. The short dress is called "Zegoli" in Korean, which is a kind of slanting collar, unbuttoned and knotted with a belt, covering only the chest; the long skirt, also called "Chima" in Korean, has fine pleats at the waist and is loose and flowing. Most of these clothes are made of silk and are brightly colored. Korean men usually wear a short, plain-colored shirt with a shoulder, and pants with wide legs and ribbons. When they go out, they often wear long robes with slanted lapels and knotted cloth bands, but now they wear uniforms or western-style clothes.

Diet of the Koreans

The main food of the Koreans is rice and millet. Fish, meat, eggs, dairy products and seafood products are supplemented by a basically vegetarian diet, which is distinctly different from that of the non-vegetarian ethnic groups. Spicy kimchi is an indispensable dish in the diet. In addition, they are also very fond of rice cake, cold noodles, soy sauce soup, chili and dog meat.

Taeguk: One of the favorite traditional foods of the Korean people. It has a long history and has been recorded in Korean literature as early as in the 18th century, when it was called "Jungjaebok" and called Jungjaebok as one of the traditional foods. Nowadays, every family serves rice cakes to their friends and relatives during festivals and celebrations. As the name suggests, the cake is beaten. Glutinous rice is the main ingredient of the cake. Where glutinous rice is not produced, small yellow rice or millet is used; the sprinkled soybean flour raw materials, in addition to small red beans, you can also use soybeans, mung beans, pine nuts, chestnuts, red dates, sesame seeds and so on. Production, the first sticky rice steamed, placed in the cake groove or on the slate, with a cake mallet to break the rice grains bonded together into a piece. When you eat, use a knife dipped in water to cut it into small pieces and dip it into the cake.

Korean cold noodles: one of the traditional foods of the Korean people. Korean cold noodles have a long history. According to Japanese history books, in the first half of the 17th century, the Korean monk Cheon Jin had already transmitted the method of making cold noodles to Japan. Korean people love to eat cold noodles not only in the hot summer, but also in the cold winter months. Especially at noon on the fourth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Korean people have the custom of eating cold noodles with the whole family. According to folklore, if you eat noodles on this day, you can "live a long life", so cold noodles are also called "longevity noodles". Cold noodles are the main raw materials are buckwheat noodles, wheat flour and starch, but also available cornmeal, sorghum flour, elm bark noodles and potato starch production. Practice is in the buckwheat noodles with starch, water, and even into the noodles, boiled and cooled with cool water, add sesame oil, chili, pickles, soy sauce beef and beef broth made to eat cool and refreshing, delicious flavor.

Erming Wine: Drinking "Erming Wine" is a custom of the Korean people. On the morning of the fifteenth day of the first month, the empty stomach drink ear Ming wine, in order to wish the ear, this wine is not special, all in the morning of the fifteenth day of the first month to drink wine, are called "ear Ming wine".

Three Volts and Dog Meat Soup: Three Volts is the hottest season of the year. However, the Korean people have the custom of slaughtering dogs and eating hot dog soup on the day of three volts. This sauce soup has a unique flavor, in the three ambrosia day to eat dog meat sauce soup can be a great tonic. Most Korean people love to eat dog meat. However, during festivals or red and white celebrations, it is absolutely forbidden to eat dog meat. This is a custom and a kind of etiquette.

Grain rice: the Joseon people have been eating grain rice for a long time. In the Silla Kingdom, the 15th day of the first lunar month was called "the day of the crows", and the crows were swept away with the grain rice. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, farmers made five grains of rice with river rice, rhubarb rice, millet, sorghum rice, small beans to eat. Also take some of them into the cattle trough, to see which one the cattle eat first, will indicate which kind of food this year can be a good harvest. This custom is still in folklore.

Rice wine: the Korean people love to drink a drink. Rice wine is the best thing they have to offer their guests. If a guest comes to visit, the host will always bring up a bowl of home-made rice wine. This wine is slightly whiter than yellow wine, and slightly sweet. This kind of rice wine has a strong aftertaste. When you drink with your elders, you should move your head to the side to drink, and you should not raise your glass to face your elders, otherwise it is disrespectful to your elders.

Spicy cabbage: one of the favorite traditional foods of the Korean people. Every winter, after the cabbage comes down, they start making spicy cabbage. At this time, whether in rural areas or towns, every family has to do, as little as a few hundred pounds, more than a thousand pounds, because it is necessary to continue to eat until the next spring. Spicy cabbage, fragrant and refreshing, has the effect of relieving fatigue and alcohol, digestion, increase appetite, both at home on weekdays, and can be on the banquet. Therefore, it is doubly popular, and has become an indispensable dish in the daily diet of the Korean people.

Housing of the Koreans

The villages of the Koreans are mostly located on the flat land under the mountain slopes. There are generally two types of houses in the countryside: straw houses and tiled houses. The houses in the village face south or southeast or southwest, and there are tiled houses and straw houses, and the walls of the houses are often painted white. The roofs are composed of four slopes, with the main room covered by a large zigzag, and the slopes of the two wings are smaller and covered by straw or gray tiles. The front of each house has one or four doors and windows. The back of the house is usually equipped with doors and windows as well. The houses are generally divided into sleeping rooms, guest rooms, kitchens and warehouses. In some cases, rooms are built in the main house to serve as housing and storage. Inside the house, the bed is made of earth bricks or flat stones. When you enter the house, you take off your shoes and sit on the bed. The foundation of the outdoor house is 60-70 centimeters above the ground, and there are steps outside.

Marriage of the Korean People

Marriage, the Korean people practiced monogamy, and according to traditional customs, close relatives, the same clan, the same name shall not be intermarried. It is a common custom that "the man is in charge of the outside world and the woman is in charge of the inside world". Before the liberation, marriages were arranged by parents, and early marriages were more common, as well as son-in-laws and child brides. Korean marriage customs from matchmaking to marriage to go through six rituals, namely, "Nacai", "asking for the name", "Naji", "Najin The six ceremonies that must be performed from the time of marriage to the time of marriage are: "Natsai", "Inquiring about the name", "Naji", "Najin", "Inviting the date" and "Welcoming the invitation. The "Nacai" gift is a gift given by the groom's family to the bride's family when they propose marriage. The "asking for the name" ceremony is the ritual of inquiring the name of the bride's mother in order to divine her future good or bad fortune. The "Naji" ceremony is when the groom's family informs the bride's family of the auspicious date. The "Naji" ceremony is the bridegroom's family to the bride has sent the green satin, red satin and other financial gifts, "please date" ceremony is the groom's family to select the wedding date in writing to the bride's family for advice, the bride's family according to the girl's specific circumstances to reply. "The bridegroom's family sends the chosen wedding date in writing to the bride's family for advice, and the bride's family responds according to the girl's specific situation. The ceremony of "welcoming the bride", in which the groom welcomes the bride, is the most solemn. Korean wedding ceremony is very complex, in Yanbian, the wedding is generally divided into two sections: first held in the bride's home, then held in the groom's home. Held in the bride's home is called "groom wedding", held in the groom's home is called "bride wedding". The groom's wedding is generally held according to the order of the ceremony of laying of geese, handing over of worship, room and ceremony, banquet ceremony and so on. The bridegroom stays in the bride's house for three days, then he goes home alone, and then the bride waits for the chosen auspicious day to be welcomed to the bridegroom's house, where the bridegroom's house also sets up the Jiao Li Hall for the bride's wedding banquet, and the next day the bride recognizes her husband's family, performs the rituals, and is asked to go to the hospitality, and only then does the wedding come to an end. The Korean people generally do not divorce after marriage, they held in the wedding ceremony of offering wooden geese, symbolizing the couple's desire to grow old together.

Korean Burial

The Koreans practise earth burial, and in some areas cremation is also practised. After the death of an elderly Korean, relatives are not allowed to wash their faces, cut their hair, or eat dry rice for three days, and they must wear mourning. Friends and relatives come to offer condolences, first in front of the body three kowtow, and then with the relatives of the deceased mutual two kowtow. Burial must be held in a single day. Into the coffin when the deceased to wear new clothes, the original clothes are burned. Three days after the burial. Before burial, we should ask the feng shui master to choose the cemetery, the cemetery is mostly chosen in the sunny side of the hillside, head towards the top of the hill feet down. After the burial, offerings are placed before the grave and bowing is done. Afterwards, they have to make offerings for three consecutive days before meals: the first day of offerings is called the "first cloud", the second day is called the "worship cloud", and the third day is called the "third cloud" when they bring offerings to the gravesite. Later, every birthday of the deceased, the day of death, Ching Ming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and so on are to be sacrificed.

Festivals of the Korean People

The festivals of the Korean people are basically the same as those of the Han people. The main festivals of the year are the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. There are also three family festivals, namely, the baby's first birthday, the "H?nga Festival" (the 60th birthday), and the "H?ngw?n Festival" (the 60th wedding anniversary).

Korean Spring Festival: The Korean people, who are good at singing and dancing, have a colorful festival life. On New Year's Eve, the whole family observes the New Year's Eve all night long, and the music of the ancient Gayageum and Dongxiao brings people into a new realm. During the festival, men, women and children sing and dance, press the springboard, tug-of-war, etc., on the competition field, lively and extraordinary, the people bring the old and the young to watch. On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, a traditional celebration gathering is held, with several old men climbing onto a wooden "moon watch stand" to see the bright moon first as a blessing, meaning that his children and grandchildren are healthy and all is well. Afterwards, everyone gathered around the lighted "moon roof", singing and dancing to the sound of long drums, dongxiao and suona music until the end of the day.

Sangwon Festival: A traditional Korean festival. Held annually on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the festival period of one day, this day, the Korean put to the ancestral graves to send lights, and then in the hallene "genus" lights, hanging lanterns in the courtyard, hanging wall lanterns on both sides of the courtyard door, but also to the river to release the lantern boat. On this day, we also have to eat medicine rice, five grains of rice, drink Conger wine. Medicine rice to the river rice, bee rice as the basic raw materials. Mixed with jujubes, chestnuts, pine nuts and other cooked. Because the medicine rice ingredients are more expensive, not easy to get together, generally to rice, millet, rhubarb rice, glutinous rice, rice beans made of five kinds of "five rice" instead. To look forward to that year's harvest. There are many games at the festival, in the past there are torch battle, car battle, tug-of-war and so on. Torch battle, that is, the race fire, to see whose torch is the brightest, burning the longest time. The car war is to compare whose car is strong. All recreational activities, the whole village to participate. Onlookers beat drums and cheered, lively and unusual. The winners sing, dance and celebrate their victory. In the evening, everyone carries a torch high up on the east hill to welcome the full moon, whoever is lucky that year will be able to see the rising full moon, after welcoming the moon, men, women and children step on the bridge under the moonlight. Treading the bridge is also called stomping the bridge. In the Korean language, the words "bridge" and "leg" have the same sound, and following the bridge means practicing the leg. When stepping on the bridge, each person must go back and forth on the bridge a few times to dozens of times, **** the number of times must be equal to their own age, in order to pray for good luck and avoid disasters.

Baby's Birthday Festival: Baby's birthday festival. Among the rites of life of the Korean people, the first birthday of a baby is the most emphasized. The celebration of the baby's first birthday is also very grand. When the baby's birthday comes, the mother of the baby dresses herself up, puts on a set of elaborate national costume, and carries the baby to the prepared birthday table so that the baby can "look over" the "hunting things" set up especially for him. The table is set out with symbolic objects such as rice cakes, sweets, food, pens, books, guns, and so on. When the guests arrive, the baby's mother tells the child to take whatever he or she likes from the assortment of things on the table. When the child reaches out and takes something from the table, the guests get excited and say something to cheer them up. This process is called the baby's birthday table "ceremony". In some places, there is also the custom of the old man to the child's neck on a ball of white thread, to show that the child hope that the snow-white ball of thread as a white person, can be as long as the long line of life long life.

Head Washing Festival: The 15th day of the 6th lunar month is the Korean Head Washing Festival. This day is regarded as an auspicious day. Early in the morning, men, women and children go to the river to wash their heads. Legend has it that it is auspicious to wash one's head with water from a stream flowing eastward. In the evening, people also hold a head-washing feast in their homes, sing head-washing songs, and then the whole family sits happily together and eats a sumptuous dinner.

Huiwai Festival: Among the family festivals of the Korean people, the grandest one is the "Huiwai Festival", also known as the "Return to Marriage Festival", which is the 60th anniversary of the marriage. The following three conditions must be met in order for the festival to be held: first, the old couple is alive; second, the biological children are alive; and third, the grandchildren have not died prematurely. If any of the biological children or grandchildren die, the festival cannot be held. Therefore, whose family can be held back to the wedding festival, is a kind of great honor, friends and relatives have to come to congratulate, a pair of old people dressed in young wedding dress, helping each other into the table, we frequently raise a glass of blessing, than the young people's wedding is more lively and grand.

June 1: "June 1" is the International Children's Day, but in Yanbian has evolved into a new national holiday. In Yanbian, people take "June 1" Children's Day activities as a major child-friendly activities. "On June 1, people often flock to parks in festive attire for the day's festivities.

Korean customs

Etiquette: the Koreans pay attention to the husband's filial piety, the eldest son to support his parents, people very much despise the unfilial and disrespectful people and behavior. Korean elders must speak to their elders with honorific words, and the first time they meet each other, they also use honorific words. When eating, the elders move their chopsticks before the rest of the family can eat. 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. When traveling with elders, young people must walk behind them, and if there is an emergency that requires them to go ahead of the elders, they must explain to the elders the reason for the emergency.

HuaJia Banquet: Every Korean family attaches great importance to the old man's birthday. On the 60th anniversary of the birth of their parents, the children will hold a "flower armor banquet" (also called flower armor ceremony) for the elderly. At the feast, the children and relatives gather together, the elderly sit in the center in their new clothes, and the children, dressed in their costumes, are seated in a row in order of seniority. The birthday celebration begins, from the eldest son and wife, to the grandchildren stop, in turn, pouring wine to the old man kneeling blessing, thank the old man's hard work and the grace of upbringing. After the ceremony, the children entertain their friends and relatives.

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