Do Koreans celebrate the Spring Festival? What are the customs of the Spring Festival in Korea
4hw.com.cn: many friends think that the Spring Festival is the biggest festival unique to me. In fact, it is not. Koreans are deeply influenced by Chinese culture. Koreans also have the custom of the Spring Festival. So how do Koreans spend the Spring Festival? Let's have a look.
In South Korea, the Spring Festival is the second largest festival after South Korea's Mid Autumn Festival. The country will have a three-day holiday, which is a legal holiday. Don't underestimate these three days. This is the longest legal holiday in South Korea all year round, which is enough to show that South Koreans attach great importance to the Spring Festival.
There was a time when Koreans deliberately drew a line with Chinese culture, such as the abolition of Chinese characters, and even the capital was renamed 'Seoul' from 'Seoul'. However, in 1999, South Korea specially resumed the Spring Festival festival. Is it to 'apply for the World Heritage' for the Spring Festival in the future? Whatever the purpose, this at least shows that the Spring Festival has a high position in the minds of Koreans. Koreans can't deliberately give up the Spring Festival. After all, it's an old tradition for thousands of years.
Koreans also celebrate the lunar new year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. They will also send Kitchen God and send noodles. Hair noodles is not for eating dumplings on New Year's Eve, but for making new year's cakes. Koreans have no custom of eating dumplings for the new year, instead of eating New Year's cakes.
Like China, Koreans will have a family reunion on New Year's Eve, and their new year's Eve dinner must be cooked by themselves. They will never go to a hotel for new year's Eve dinner. Therefore, during the Spring Festival in South Korea, shops are basically closed, and the city is very quiet. This can refer to our cities during the Chinese New Year.
During the Korean Spring Festival, Koreans will wear traditional national costumes to pay New Year's greetings and give gifts to each other. South Koreans attach great importance to this. They should not only give exquisite and practical gifts, but also wrap them in tender pink paper, which means a formal and solemn.
South Koreans pay New Year's greetings to their elders by kneeling on the ground and bowing down. If you watch some Korean dramas, not only in the new year, even if the younger generation often kneels down to the elders. Korean people have done very well in respect of respect for elders and children. We can still see the etiquette order in ancient China from them.
Well, of course, the elders should also give the younger generation lucky money as a return gift, and give it to the younger generation in a blessing bag, representing the elders' good wishes to the younger generation. As for how much lucky money you give, you will follow your heart, not too deliberately. In China, however, there is some deviation in the new year's money. Many people's year-end bonuses are not enough to give new year's money. If there are many relatives, friends and children, it will be 'bleeding' to go home during the Spring Festival!
In China, many young people are most afraid of their elders asking if they have a girlfriend and when to get married. In South Korea, there is also such mental pressure.
In an online survey, the most troublesome thing for Koreans during the Spring Festival is the pressure brought by their elders' nagging. Korean young people are also under great pressure at work. They are most afraid of their elders asking about marriage and work problems. They think that the elders' expectations of him are often too high and difficult to achieve. They don't want to disappoint the elders, but they are really powerless, so they are very anxious.
South Korea is different from our country. Unexpectedly, it has the same problem. I have to admit that South Korea and China really have too many similarities in social culture.