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Korean custom

1, Koreans live in the center of the fire kang. Usually, men sit cross-legged and women sit with their knees, so most clothes are loose. Koreans generally like white clothes and plain clothes, showing their love for purity and simplicity, so they are called white people.

2. Koreans live in the north and engage in rice production, which directly affects the formation of their staple food habits. In the traditional Korean diet, rice and vegetables are the basic diet, and the dishes are usually spicy. In the daily diet, rice is generally the staple food, soup is the non-staple food, and there are various tastes.

3. Pickling and mixing are the main forms of Korean cuisine. Koreans pay great attention to pickling, and every family has jars of different sizes to put kimchi. Pickled vegetables include cabbage, radish, cauliflower, cucumber, eggplant and kohlrabi, among which spicy cabbage is the most famous.

4. Korean weddings are conducted according to the procedures of wedding ceremony, accepting gifts, accepting coins and welcoming relatives. The wedding ceremony is that parents negotiate their children's marriage through the matchmaker, and the bride price is given by the groom's family to show their gratitude for the engagement of the woman's family. The wedding ceremony is the wedding ceremony, which is the most important and grand ceremony in the whole wedding.

Korean women's clothing is divided into upper and lower layers, the upper layer is made of satin or yarn with bright colors and beautiful patterns. The skirt is very short, only to the chest, the cuffs are slightly thin, there are no buttons, and the two long colored belts in front are tied into a butterfly shape. The bottom dress is a loose colored high-waist dress wrapped in two or three layers of underwear, which is more suitable. The way to wear it is to wear a skirt first and then a coat.

Extended data

In areas where Korean people live in compact communities, especially in Yanbian, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and by-product fishery have developed in an all-round way. Yanbian area is a famous hometown of rice in northern China and one of the main flue-cured tobacco producing areas in China. Yanbian Yellow Cattle is one of the five local thoroughbred cattle in China. Ginseng and velvet antler are well-known at home and abroad.

Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture was established on September 3, 1952/kloc-0, and Changbai Korean Autonomous County was established on September 5, 1958/kloc-0. In Yanbian, traditional festivals of Koreans include Spring Festival (the first day of the year), the 15th day of the first month, Qingming Festival, Cold Food Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and winter solstice. In addition, there are three family festivals, namely, the baby's first birthday, 60th birthday and 60th wedding anniversary.

Koreans are taboo to be called "fresh people"; The younger generation can't drink and smoke in front of the elders; When smoking, young people are not allowed to borrow a fire from the elderly, let alone bring a fire, otherwise it will be regarded as disrespectful behavior; When walking with elders, young people must walk behind them. If there is something urgent, you must respectfully explain the reason to your elders.

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