Friday, October 5, 2012

Chuseok


Chuseok is a holiday tradition in Korea or common use Korean people to return home and gather with family to visit the ancestral altar. Chuseok celebration it self be a dinner party to say thank you for the success of the harvest, so it is also called the Day of Harvest, Harvest Moon Festival, or Hankawi ("han" = "highway", "kawi" = "middle", "big day in the middle of autumn. "
 
Chuseok (Full Moon Day) are also used to say  gratitude to ancestors. On the morning usually honored with a pilgrimage to the tomb of the ancestors. providing food, drinks and fruits to be offered on a typical ancestral.Food  spirit that used to exist on the day of Chuseok is a cake Songpyeon (
송편) of rice flour filled with peanuts or sesame.

Besides, there is a tradition in the day Chuseok for young people as possible are made ​​Songpyeon supposedly trustworthy who can make the best Songpyeon will soon get a pair of handsome or beautiful.

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