Characteristics and customs of Korean nationality

The characteristics and customs of Korean nationality are: dress customs, diet customs, life customs, funeral customs and etiquette customs.

1, dress code

Koreans like to wear plain white clothes, usually shorts. Men's shirts are buttonless, knotted with cloth and vest, with large crotch and knotted trousers. Women's short skirts are buttonless and tied with ribbons. Long skirts are divided into wrap skirts and tube skirts. Old women wear long white skirts, and middle-aged women wear heel-wrapped skirts. Young women's skirts are mostly brightly colored satin.

2. Eating habits

Koreans believe that rice is the staple food, and they should drink soup for every meal, especially miso soup. Korean specialties include spicy cabbage, cold noodles and dog meat. South Korea's drinking utensils have a unique style. Generally, there are two pots in one furnace. The pot is deep and wide at the bottom, and there is a special iron cover to facilitate braised rice, but cooking is not convenient. Usually a pot of rice and a pot of soup. There is a pot of rice in the middle of the table, one spoon for each person and cold water.

3. Living customs

Multi-residential horsetail residence, built near the water source. The house is made of wood, the wall is made of mud, and the roof is tilted all around, covered with straw. There are four or five doors in each room, and the indoor room is kang. Take off your shoes and sit cross-legged. In rural areas, a big cow is raised indoors in the east of the house, and Chu Jiu is used to drive cattle and pound rice in the hospital.

4. Funeral customs

First, carry the corpse's head to the seven-star board in the west and put it in the house for sacrifice. The shroud will be made at this time. Family members and close relatives wear mourning clothes, men wear mourning hats and women wear mourning rings. The coffin will last for three days, five days, seven days and nine days. Mourners bowed to the body and brought gifts. Before the funeral, the deceased was wiped and changed, and the body was tied with linen in three places and put into the coffin.

5. Etiquette and custom

Korean etiquette is very strict. The younger generation must use honorifics when speaking to their elders; When colleagues meet for the first time, they should also use respectful words; When walking with elders, young people must walk behind them; The elders Lu Yu knows should make peace and make way; Set a single table for the elderly when eating. Father and son will have different seats. The daughter-in-law will serve him respectfully. After the old man has finished eating, the whole family can eat.