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Customs and Festivals of the Korean People

1. Baekchung Day: Baekchung Day is a traditional festival of the Korean people. It is also known as Baekchung Day and the Crystal of the Middle. It is held on the 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar every year.

2. Dragon Boat Festival: Before sunrise on the morning of the fifth day of the fifth month of the Korean lunar calendar, people go to the mountains to collect wormwood and dry it for medicinal purposes. The making of traditional food, mochi, is an important activity of the festival.

3. Sangwon Festival: On the fifteenth day of the first month of the Korean lunar calendar, the Korean people first send lanterns to the mother's grave, then burn the lanterns in the hall, hang the lanterns in the courtyard, hang the lanterns in the wall on both sides of the courtyard, and release the lantern boats in the river.

4. Chrysanthemum Festival: On the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year, every Korean family makes a cake with chrysanthemum leaves and sticky rice flour, which is commonly known as chrysanthemum fry.

5, Jia haiku festival: Jia haiku festival, the Korean language means autumn eve festival. Korean folk festival. Held annually on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar.

6, Kaiten Festival: Kaiten Festival is a religious festival of the Korean folk in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province, held on the third day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar. This festival from the Korean people has basically disappeared in the 倧倧教, this day is the legendary ancestor Tanjun sacrifice day.