How do you celebrate New Year in Korea?

January 1 of the lunar calendar is one of the most important holidays in Korea. In Korea, on the morning of New Year's Day, the ancestors are worshipped (food and drink are offered to the ancestors and a big ceremony is performed). It means the beginning of a new year. After the festival, children pay their respects to adults, who return the favor. On the day of Chinese New Year, rice cakes are eaten. This has the meaning of growing a year older after the New Year. Families and relatives get together to play games such as Hub Throwing (a traditional Korean game played with four wooden blocks) and Jumping Board (a game where girls take turns jumping on both ends of a long wooden board). The festival is also a time to give away or hang up a fortune-strainer (a ladle-like instrument for straining), which is a symbol of good fortune, at home. January 15 of the lunar calendar. At the beginning of the New Year, the first full moon is welcomed and prayers are made for a year of abundance and peace. On the morning of the 15th day of the first lunar month, the festival is celebrated with the eating of "plutonium cooking" (hard food such as peanuts, chestnuts, and walnuts to avoid sores) and "ear-ming wine" (wine to be drunk so that you can hear well in both ears during the year) to pray that you will not fall ill. For breakfast, they eat grains of rice (rice made from rice, river rice, small beans, soybeans, and sorghum) and wild vegetables (vegetables made from edible grasses and leaves). And call each other's names, and the other person replies, "You buy my hot ah." This means not to get heatstroke in the summer of the year. On the 15th day of the first month, there are two kinds of games; one is to fly kites, which means to eliminate the disasters of the year, and the other is to set fire to rats, which means to expel demons and pests. It is said that on the night of the 15th day of the first month, three wishes made to the full moon will come true. Korean New Year's Eve Customs New Year's Eve is a day to eat gaebol. There is a custom that on the night of the 30th day of the lunar New Year, the whole family sits around and eats all the leftovers, so as not to let the leftovers pass the New Year. The next day, the first day of the first lunar month, the family has to drink milky rice cake soup to signify the beginning of a new year. The rice cake soup is also drunk for the festival, and drinking the rice cake soup also signifies growing another year in age. The festival is usually held at the eldest son's house. Grandmothers and daughters-in-law mainly go all out to prepare food for the festival. On New Year's Eve, or New Year's Day, it is customary to stay up all night to "observe the New Year's Eve," and the whole family is busy making preparations for the New Year while having a good time. As soon as midnight passed on New Year's Eve, "lucky strainers" were sold, and it was necessary to buy them early and put sugar, matches, money, etc. inside them and hang them on the wall to pray for good luck and drive away ghosts in order to welcome the New Year. Strainers are used for panning rice, but nowadays there is no sand in the rice, so there is little need to pan it, so naturally, strainers are seldom used. Early in the morning on the first day of the first month, the "blessed strainer" is hung outside the house, and when vendors selling the "blessed strainer" come to collect the money, everyone is happy to give it to them out of the will to pray for good luck. In the past, on New Year's Eve, all the lights in the house were kept on to drive away bad luck and pray for good fortune to come. Now, regardless of superstition, or according to custom. There are similar customs in China. In order to drive away ghosts and monsters, firecrackers are set off all night long on New Year's Eve, cracking and popping. There is also this very interesting custom. When I was young, I heard people say that if you sleep on New Year's Eve, your eyebrows will turn white. So the children were sleepy and insisted on staying awake. If anyone really can not hold out to fall asleep, on his eyebrows sprinkled with some flour, the first morning of the New Year's Day will wake up to startle him a big jump. This may be a reflection of the wisdom of our ancestors. The meaning is for everyone to be awake and not confused, to summarize the past year, to prepare for the new year, and to reflect on themselves and set new goals. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, everyone should be full of energy and joy, dress up beautifully and put on gorgeous Hanbok to pay New Year's greetings to the elders. At the New Year's greetings, the elders give them money, and they say auspicious words such as "I wish you a healthy New Year, and all the best". On this day, children earn a lot of money. After paying respects to the elders of the family, it is time for the morning festival. Unlike usual, the festival is held in the morning. Since the rituals of all the ancestral deities are held, the offerings are very rich. In the Joseon Dynasty, according to the Jukja family ritual, four generations of ancestors were honored, but recently, three generations of ancestors are honored. Although the forms and procedures of the rituals have been simplified with the change of time and religion, more than 70% of Korean families still strictly observe the Confucian rituals. This means that the sense of praying for the harmony of the family and the happiness of the descendants through the ritual of ancestor worship is still rooted in the hearts of Koreans. Fruits (jujubes, pears, chestnuts, persimmons), dried meat (dried meat, dried fish), raw dishes (kebabs, slices of meat, slices of raw fish, vegetables), mountain vegetables (fern, fronds, spinach), rice cakes (matsutake on Autumn eve), and wine and rice (rice cake soup on the first day of the Lunar New Year) are usually put on the sacrificial table. After the chief of the festival has performed the great rites, men perform two great rites and women perform four great rites. In some families, the women only participate in the preparation of the offerings and do not take part in the rituals. Then, the whole family sits around and eats the food on the sacrificial offering table. If three generations of a large family are gathered, there are likely to be 20 or 30 mouths to feed. So it is not easy to prepare food for so many people at once. Everyone felt that it was not only the women's job to receive guests and prepare food, so they all volunteered to help out. The tradition of sitting around and sharing food after ancestor worship is a beautiful family cultural landscape. This can only be seen during festivals that are filled with warmth and affection. After a hearty breakfast, the whole family gathers together, some drinking tea and eating fruits, some watching TV, some laughing and joking, some teasing the children, some playing games, and the house is filled with laughter. The most common folk game at Chinese New Year is for the whole family to sit around and play throw, which is open to both men and women, young and old, with the loser willingly penalized or paying a fine. Whenever this happens, family members are once again immersed in warmth and happiness. Games such as tug-of-war, kite-flying, seesawing, and tossing are often played on the Lunar New Year's Day. Some games are gradually replaced by video games