South Korea's introduction

South Korea's (Chesapeake), the full name of the republic of Korea (????Of the republic of Korea/Daehan Minguk), hereinafter referred to as South Korea (??????Hanguk)/South Korea, also known as South Korea, South Korea.Founded in August 15, 1948, is located in the south of the Korean peninsula in east Asia republic, name is derived from the ancient Korean peninsula in the south of the three han tribe (Calvin Korean, horses, chemical Korea),The English nameChesapeake originated from the ancient name of "Korean".South Korea is the administrative capital of sejong, presidential palace and parliament was still in Seoul, South Korea become a capital of two countries.

South Korea is located in the northeast Asia on the Korean peninsula, west near the yellow sea, surrounded by sea on three sides and jiaodong peninsula across the sea, southeast, north Korea strait, the east is the sea of Japan, north across the 38th parallel demilitarized zone with north Korea, adjacent territory area of 4/9 of the total area of the Korean peninsula.

South Korean history was a vassal state of Chinese dynasty, the qing dynasty, the qing dynasty in sino-japaneseThe warDefeat, and South Korea from with the central plains dynasty was vassal relationship, establish "Korean empire", after annexation by Japan in 1910, after world war ii recovery achieved independence.Outbreak of the Korean war in 1950 and divide the north and south, the northern countries said north Korea, south according to South Korea.

South Korea is the group of 20 and the organisation for economic co-operation and development (OECD), a member of the APEC (APEC) and founders of the east Asia summit, is one of the four Asian tigers.

Since the 1960 s, the south Korean government implemented "export-oriented" strategy of developing the economy, created the remarkable "the han miracle".Is to perfect the market economic system of the organisation for economic co-operation and developed countries.Is the only one of developed countries over the next 11 countries.South Korea's information technology industry has for years been stronger, manufacturing and technology industry developed, in addition to high-speed Internet services for world famous, memory, liquid crystal display and plasma display panel plane display device and mobile phone are leading in the world market

South Korea's traditional holiday custom

South Korea and China and east Asian culture circle (?????), there are a lot of festivals (??????) overlap with China (?????), but the holidays approach with China today.For instance the international May DayLabor day(?????), if in China, be sure it is a holiday (??????, Korean general holidays holiday called????, that is, in the three days or seven days.Can be in accordance with the law of South Korea, May Day general personnel can rest, stores are closing bank, but civil servants (?????) and teacher (??????) will continue to (??????) to work.

Holiday from South Korea, historical origin, there are three main sources: one is originated from China, such asThe Spring Festival(??)、The Lantern Festival(???)、The Dragon Boat Festival(??)、The Mid-Autumn festival(??????).One is derived from the western festivals, such as bath FoJie (?????) andChristmas(?????).South Korea's religious atmosphere, buddhist (??????) and Christian (?????Many believers).April 8th lunar calendar, the disciplestempleIn a special ceremony and held the Lantern Festival (?????), commonly known as bath FoJie.But Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Christ was born this sacred day.Is derived from South Korea's traditional holiday, on March 1, such as independence day, July 17, the constitutional section, on August 15, independence day (?????), and so on.

Said from the content of the festival, the south Korean holiday can be divided into three types (??????) : folk (??????Type), politics (??????) and religion.The Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn festival belongs to the type of folk, in South Korea has had a profound impact on social, and spiritual heritage of south koreans play an important role.Kaitian section (?????), independence day belong to politics-oriented, record the founding history of South Korea's persevering pursuit of independence.Every year on October 3, is the legendary dangun (??????The day of Korea) was established in 2333 BC.Although this period of history it is difficult to research, but south koreans always believe dangun is their ancestors, and the greatest spirits as the Korean race.Bath FoJie with representatives of Christmas belong to type of religious holiday.South Korea is a country of religious belief is thicker, the nation, the proportion of belief in Buddhism and Christianity is very big, so that the temple and the church (??????, the Catholic church call??) can be seen everywhere, and even a lot of people will be hanging on the roof of the great cross.

Overall, South Korea is a very attention to holiday and comply with (?????) national festival customs.Such as Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn festival, is Korean important festival, on this day, no matter how far, south koreans in general, want to go home and relatives (??????) together.Especially during the Spring Festival, live in the city's residents to return home fete (??????), which also bring huge traffic problem.Ordinary Korean families have cars, accustomed toDriving a carGo home, so every at this time, the highway (????) will be packed, 4 hours' drive at ordinary times, may be extended to 15 hours.But the difficulty again big, also block not Korean home road Spring Festival!

I think koreans so important traditional festivals, reflect their ancestor worship (??????) honor (??????) parents' family.The concept of sacrifice to exert the belief in the spirit of ancestor worship, reaffirming family interests first, reunion, show a share the human nature glory of the family, the family for this.In the prevalence of individualism, human indifference increasingly today, south Korean people pay attention to the family family holiday concept is in material utilitarianism social awakening of human nature to reshape healthy citizens of a kind of effective way.

South Korea's important traditional festival

On January 1-2:New Year's Day

Although South Korea people celebrate the Spring Festival, but the Gregorian calendar's New Year's day also have two days of statutory holidays and celebrate the New Year.General family at home in the morning on the first day to eat rice cakes soup, afternoon began to elders home New Year or greeting.

Lunar calendar the first day to grade the first lunar month: the Spring Festival

As the Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn festival is one of the biggest holiday of the year a family reunion.The morning of the Spring Festival, people wear their finest clothes for the ancestor worship ceremony.Sacrifice junior to the elders of the family after the New Year, and receives the elders to New Year's money.Then they sat together to eat rice cake soup, koreans think eating it even older.In the afternoon, people relatives visiting each other, to the relatives and friends happy New Year.During the Spring Festival have roll games, fly a kite, spinning top, poppled many folk activities, etc.

Lunar calendar the 10th day 5: the Lantern Festival

The lunar calendar every year the first full moon of the farmers and fishermen pray for harvest and for special game.The fifteenth day of the first in the morning, a family reunion together eat peanut and walnut, this is because they believe can drive away the heat of the year.Since ancient times, the south Korean people will think of a full moon night mysterious, especially the day of the first month of the year round.When the moon rises, people will looked at the moon to pray, believe that desire can be achieved, and the farmers will wish for this year's harvest.

On March 1: trinity section

Mark on March 1, 1919, the rise of the independence movement against Japanese rule.

April 5: Arbor Day

Promote afforestation sports day.On this day, government officials, teachers, students, and tens of thousands of south koreans across the country in accordance with the government's plans for the afforestation plant trees.

On May 5th:Children's day

Hold various celebration activities for children, let them enjoy pleasure together with their parents.

The lunar April 8th: bath FoJie

Lunar calendar is April 8th Buddhism from the birth of mani, the buddhist believers in the temple, held a special ceremony and held the Lantern Festival.The day celebrations culminated in the lantern parade.

Five fifth lunar calendar: dragon boat sacrifice

To ancient since, after the end of the planting, the peasants prayed to god has given to the harvest day of rest, like the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival time at the same time, it is also a traditional festival in the ancient world from China to South Korea.The Dragon Boat Festival has a lot of folk activities, such as wrestling (man) and swing (woman), etc.

On June 6: show sincerity

National hero in the day to commemorate the nation, the national cemetery in Seoul held a memorial ceremony.

ChuFu

Volts (ChuFu MoFu ZhongFu), in order to have a good hot summer, south koreans have v day eating ginseng chicken soup and other maintenance diet custom.

July 17: constitutional section

The memory of the day for the constitution of the republic of Korea in 1948.

On August 15: independence day

In 1945, Japan signed a capitulation, Korea liberated from 35 years of Japanese colonial rule, and announced the formation of a republic of Korea.

Lunar calendar August 15 solstice 18: chuseok (or called the Mid-Autumn festival)

Harvest and Thanksgiving, and the Spring Festival and called South Korea's biggest holiday, three days off.On the first morning, people put on new clothes, take the made of valley food wine and muffins and sacrifices to's cemetery, in the evening to enjoy full moon, eat cake.The Mid-Autumn festival is South Korea's most grand festival.

On October 3: open a day

Founded in 2333 b.c., the memory of the legendary dangun national holiday.

On October 9: Korea byte

To commemorate the north dynasty 4th generation Wang Shizong create Korean language text type system.

On December 22: the winter solstice

Is also a very important part in the lunar calendar solar term, Korean winter to use red bean to do the winter solstice porridge diet custom.

On December 25, Christmas

South Korean christians and catholics combined to achieve national 1/5 to 1/4.Like in the west, whether it is not a Christian is to celebrate this holy day.

South Korea's traditional holiday custom

New Year customs

New Year has posted a paper-cut, the custom of the peach wood charms against evil.New Year's day dawn, people put some money into the New Year's eve, tightly packed in advance the scarecrow, throw to the crossroads, said off evil, to meet lucky star.Dusk, people will burn the hair the whole family a year again, wish your family peace and the four seasons.On New Year's day girls wearing a hat ZhongMa system, known as the "fu" and five color clothes, wearing a patterned to swing.During the New Year, the north koreans, in addition to enjoy food and wine also must do a rice with pine nuts, honey and chestnut powder, jujube paste, cooking into similar sweet meals to our Chinese rice pudding, prosperous day had to predict home sweet as honey.

The Spring Festival custom

With South Korea is a very traditional country, Spring Festival is on the basis of ancestor worship, and filial piety idea of festival, is the wish to offer a family Christmas day.Today, the Spring Festival is also gives new meaning to modern people, that is to let people temporary relief from the tense rhythm of city life, get a moment of peace and happiness.So, the Spring Festival to Korea you everywhere is full of joy and auspicious atmosphere.

South Korea the traditional customs of the Spring Festival has a lot of, have a years, makeup, painting, fu skimmer, luminous ghost legends, and so on.Has come down at the age of the custom of ancestor worship, worship, Germany to talk about, "throw wood four" springboard and customs.The Chinese Spring Festival to eat rice cakes, Korean Spring Festival also has specially pay attention to eat food, collectively known as the "age of meal.To the most representative of the Spring Festival food is "sliced rice cakes soup".The ancient koreans believe in the sun, white small cone rice cake represents the sun, the first day on the morning of the first lunar month eat rice cakes drop soup means to meet the light of the sun.In accordance with the primitive religious beliefs, also represents the ring, everything on the resurrection as serious and clean.Traditional rice cakes drop soup soup is made with the pheasant soup, pheasant rare now, so use beef or chicken soup instead.In central and northern also like to join in rice cakes drop soup mountain chicken, the dumplings with the stuffing of mungbean sprout, mushrooms and pickles for.In addition, every family would prepare honey waxy oil fruit, cinnamon soup, rice pudding, and meat food such as reception to come to New Year's family and friends.

The Dragon Boat Festival customs,

South Korean originated in preveiling ghost era of the mountain, the original is CunNong QiZhu harvest celebration has a history of more than one thousand years, mostly large composition mountain god worship and big composition buddhist article and buddhist female article of god.The whole activities including cult, acting, recreational three parts.To meet god worship from April 15 to May 7 to god, as long as more than 20 days.There are more than 25 kinds of rites, the article offered early cult officer for mayor, in the early officer taken by the speaker, to meet god at the beginning of offering an officer dean to culture, and the drink offering, gods, etc., are respectively taken by the police the director, director of education at all levels of chief executive.Wu is the most traditional common cult, with song and dance entertainment gods and entertainment, by witch to convey the desire of the people, god ceremony is divided into 18, have no net wu offerings and seven star wu offerings, Lord wizard offerings, flower song wu offerings, by witch guidance, public participation, common wish peace village, fisheries harvest.

Folk drama is the most characteristic of the officer slave mask dance, tour in each article hall performances, humorous banter, datong, halcrow.Other folk games swing, wrestling, ruby, folk singing and so on, the last item is a "field", actually is a large-scale comprehensive bazaar, a bit like a Chinese temple fair, every year there are millions of people to participate in, and said this is the era significance of preveiling.Other folk activities create wheel cake food, wine and unstrained wine or liquor, calamus hair sign, with calamus cutting systemWash your hairAt midnight, bath, drawing operator, dragon boat fan, etc.At this time of the year by the rulers to priest, folk also keep theseCustoms and habits, because this time close to the Dragon Boat Festival in China, many customs and similar to the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, in 1927, officially named the mountain god offering for dragon boat sacrifice 1967 13 listed as national key intangible cultural property, and to declare at UNESCO in 2005 "world intangible heritage", thus caused the front by China's media speculation over an event, such as "defend the dragon-boat festival, the dragon-boat festival is not actually he dragon-boat festival.South Korean dragon boat sacrifice with the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival are two different things.

The Mid-Autumn festival customs

South Korea's Mid-Autumn festival like China, also is in the lunar calendar in August 15, the holiday for South Korea, as well as the Spring Festival is a big holiday.With the approach of the chuseok, back to hometown for people more and more.It was the season of harvest year on this day.On this day, the south Korean people are going to the graveyard to our ancestors, then they divide the harvest of the content and fruit, steamed cakes in the diets of the representative, its shape like dumplings, mixed with sesame fillings are made of beans, taste very good.August festival, usually game is wrestling with qiang qiang, the more water to dance.Wrestling is men's game, in a big courtyard, everyone around the strong men wrestling, wrestling the best referred to as "the strong man".Qiang qiang is a south Korean woman dance a water rich rhythm of a dance.When the moon rises, are put on beautiful hanbok in a circle, folk dances while singing.Because people in the process of jumping, also with a "form" of Chinese ethnic minority dance, so the water is known as the qiang qiang to dance more, also called circle circle dance.