Koreans respect the elderly very much and set August 15 as the "Day for the Elderly". The younger generation can't drink and smoke in front of the elders; When smoking, young people are not allowed to borrow a fire from the elderly, let alone bring a fire, otherwise it will be regarded as disrespectful behavior; When walking with elders, young people must walk behind them. If there is something urgent, you must respectfully explain the reason to your elders. On the way, young people should respectfully stand by the side of the road to meet the face-to-face with the elderly and make way; The younger generation must use honorifics when talking to their elders, and also when meeting their peers for the first time.
On the dining table, spoons and rice soup have a fixed position. For example, the spoon should be placed on the right side of the diner, the rice should be placed on the left side of the table, the soup bowl should be placed on the right side, the dishes with soup should be placed next to it, the dishes without soup should be placed second, and the seasoning should be placed in the middle. Don't kill dogs or eat dog meat during weddings, funerals and celebrations. It is taboo to call people "fresh people".
2. Marriage customs
The communication between girls and boys needs a "matchmaker". First of all, the man's family should let the matchmaker go to the woman's house to "accept it when it is good", which is similar to the "blind date" of the Han nationality. If satisfied, the boy will formally propose to the girl. If the woman agrees, the man's family will give her the "four pillars". Four pillars are written on a piece of paper with names and stars (date of birth), and then the woman takes the girl's four pillars to the "vault". The so-called "vault" refers to whether male and female animals are compatible but incompatible. If the zodiac signs of two people coincide, the woman will inform the man's family through the matchmaker that the harmony between the two people is opposite, and the man can "choose a date" to determine the wedding date and send a bride price to the woman's family, usually "green satin" and "red satin".
The wedding was held at the bride's house. The groom and his party came to the bride's house with the carved goose wrapped in a red envelope. The bride picks up the wooden goose with a wooden basin, and then lets the groom enter the guest room-"Sherang Room". The groom puts on a gauze hat and ties a crown belt. The bride wears a "cluster head" and a "Han shirt" and walks into the firewood ceremony hall for the wedding. Then the groom began to "enjoy the big table", that is, to taste. After the firewood ceremony, the two sides officially became husband and wife.
3. Eating habits
I like to eat rice, I am good at cooking rice, and I am very particular about using water and fire. The iron pot for cooking rice has a deep bottom, a closed mouth and a tightly covered lid, and can be heated evenly to hold its breath. The cooked rice has soft particles and pure taste. You can cook double-layer rice or multi-layer rice with different textures in one pot at a time. Various cakes made of rice flour, such as sliced cakes, loose cakes, steamed cakes, cakes and cold noodles, are also the daily staple foods of Koreans.
The common daily dishes of Koreans are "Bazhen cuisine" and "Jiangmuer" (miso soup). "Bazhen cuisine" is a dish made of eight raw materials: mung bean sprouts, soybean sprouts, tofu, dried tofu, vermicelli, platycodon grandiflorum, bracken and mushrooms through stewing, mixing, frying and frying. The main raw materials of miso soup are Chinese cabbage, autumn cabbage, Daxing cabbage and laver. Use sauce instead of salt and cook it with water. Pepper is not only one of the main raw materials of dishes, but also the main condiment.
Kimchi is an indispensable dish in daily life. Such as chili, perilla leaf, radix adenophorae in hot sauce, platycodon grandiflorum in hot sauce, beef in hot sauce, radish in hot sauce, etc. Kimchi enjoys a high reputation for its fine workmanship. It is a regular dish from winter to the next spring. The taste of kimchi is also a sign of housewife's cooking skills. Most Korean dishes have certain nourishing and medical effects after eating. Such as "Shenqi Bushen Decoction" eaten in spring, "dog broth" eaten in dog days, game meat and game soup eaten in winter.
There are many kinds of Korean holiday dishes, and seasonal dishes are prepared. There are many famous dishes in Korea, such as fairy furnace, tonic furnace (also called tonic soup, dog meat hotpot), cold noodles, cakes, pickles and so on. There are also: beef and radish pieces with sauce; Iron pot fillet; Raw fish and other Korean dishes.
4. festivals
The festivals of Korean people are basically the same as those of Han people. In addition, there are three family festivals, namely, the first anniversary of the baby's birth, the "Jia Hui Festival" (60th birthday) and the "Wedding Returning Festival" (60th wedding anniversary). Koreans have always advocated etiquette and paid attention to festivals. On New Year's Day and festive days, the diet is more particular. All dishes and cakes should be decorated with shredded pepper, sliced eggs, shredded laver, shredded onion or pine nut rice and walnut kernel.
In addition to traditional festivals, children's first birthday, marriage, and the elderly's sixtieth birthday are all given a big banquet to entertain guests. At that time, a cooked rooster should be put on the table first, and a red pepper should be in the rooster's mouth. The traditional dishes of the banquet are not only various, but also exquisite and gorgeous, and many foods should be made into birds and animals. Among all the ceremonial banquets, the "Huahua" banquet to congratulate the elderly on their 60th birthday is the most exquisite and grand.
5. Land of singing and dancing
Korean is a nation that can sing and dance well, and song and dance activities have a wide range of mass. In addition to festivals, men, women and children can improvise dances even in their spare time and rest time.
North Korean dance is graceful and graceful, combining rigidity with softness, or lyrical and unrestrained, or passionate, which fully shows the national character of North Korea, which combines rigidity with softness, softness without weakness, elegance without vulgarity. Famous folk dances include farm music dance, long drum dance, fan dance, top water dance and sword dance. Agricultural music dance evolved from the ancient dance to celebrate the harvest of hunting, so it has a bright rhythm and a warm atmosphere. In particular, the man shook his head vigorously, making the 3-meter-long elephant tail on the top of the elephant hat spin and dance on his body, which is even more unique and full of vitality.
Korean songs are melodious, natural and smooth, full of strong appeal and expressiveness. One person sings a song, and everyone sings along. Not that "a good singer has his voice to follow", but that "the song in his heart can sing best". The famous folk songs "The Ballad of Orange Stem", "Arirang" and "Nuoduo River" are well known. Koreans attach great importance to children's aesthetic education and educate them in art from an early age, so many children can play musical instruments such as tambourine, tambourine, harp and accordion.
6. Hometown of sports
Korea is a nation that loves sports. Football, wrestling, skating, springboard, swinging and other activities have a very wide range of mass. Yanbian is called "the hometown of football". In the past, it was mainly attended by men. In recent years, women's football teams have been formed in some places. The way of wrestling is unique. One way of wrestling is to tie a cloth belt on each side of the right leg. One end of the cloth belt is tied to the opponent's wrist, and the wrestlers hug each other's waist to calculate the outcome by the number of falls. Another way of throwing is to prepare a cloth belt of about 3 meters for each wrestler, tie it at the waist of 90 cm, loosely wrap the rest around the right thigh, and tie a belt of 5 meters long around the waist. The right knee is crisp and the left knee is bent during the game. Everyone grabs the other person's belt with his right hand and the other person's leg rope (a ring wrapped around his right leg) with his left hand. At the signal of the start of the game, both sides stand up and fight, usually two out of three games. Whether you are a player or not, you can perform. At the sports meeting, the prize of the wrestling champion is a big cow with red flowers. The winner rode on the back of the cow and was led around the field by the local person in charge to show his glory.
Swing, springboard and altar walking are all women's sports. The characteristics of their swing are: high, floating, leisure, cleverness, softness, beauty and joy. Swing ropes are usually tied to strong horizontal branches of tall trees, and colored ribbons or bells are hung in front of the swing. Only when the swinging board touches this sign can it win cheers and praises. There is a saying in Korean folk: "Girls don't jump on the springboard, and it is difficult to give birth after marriage." . Therefore, the springboard is highly valued and loved. There is a legend about the origin of springboard diving: in feudal times, girls stayed indoors. In order to see the world outside the courtyard wall, they set up a pressure plate (commonly known as a seesaw) in the yard, so that the children could sit and play with each other one by one. Later, the children thought that they could see farther by standing on the board and jumping, so they made a springboard. The folk springboard is 5.5 meters long, 40 centimeters wide and 5 to 6 centimeters thick. The bottom riser in the middle of the springboard is 30 cm high. During the competition, there is a special person to guard the board mat to prevent the springboard from falling. The girls standing at both ends of the springboard take turns to take off continuously and gradually send each other higher. People who can perform thrilling actions when their bodies are in the air are the most popular, such as scissors jump, spin jump, somersault jump, and even rattan ring jump, modeling, garland dance, ribbon waving and so on. Smart and beautiful, colorful, dazzling, amazing and ornamental. Walking at the top of the altar is a sport that comes directly from work and life. The altar or the altar is filled with water or rice at a certain distance. The contestants threw off their hands and ran with the bulls. They were the first to reach the finish line without splashing water.
7. Hometown of Food
In Korean diet, cold noodles are famous all over the country, and kimchi is famous all over the world. I eat more cold noodles than in summer. Generally, wheat flour, buckwheat flour and sweet potato starch are mixed together to make noodles, and beef bones are used to make soup. When eating, add ice cubes, peppers, beef slices with sauce, apple slices and other seasonings to the soup. Thick noodles, spicy soup, refreshing entrance and long aftertaste. Pickled vegetables, in a narrow sense, can be understood as hot and sour cabbage pickled in winter; In a broad sense, it can be understood as including dozens of pickles, mainly including small green pepper, perilla leaf, adenophora adenophora, platycodon grandiflorum, tassel, bletilla striata, radish strips, apple pears, dried fish and so on. At present, these two kinds of food are easy to taste in large and medium-sized cities all over the country, and their reputation is excellent. Of course, Korean cuisine is by no means the representative of these two categories. The famous cold dishes are raw beef, raw cow leaves, raw fish and fresh vegetables. There are more than 30 kinds of soups, so you should drink different soups in different seasons. The most exquisite is thick white soup, and the most common ones are plum cloud soup, beef soup, water soup, snow thick soup, small chicken soup, dragon and phoenix soup, taste soup, dog broth, small fish soup and so on. The main ingredients for soup are beef, chicken, dog meat, rabbit meat, pheasant and so on. Koreans like to eat dog meat, but they don't eat it at weddings, funerals and festivals. Koreans like to eat Chili, and every household has as much as 100 kg of Chili. Festival food attaches importance to delicacies and delicacies, which is related to its mountainous residence near the sea. Ordinary people make cakes and muffins in the Mid-Autumn Festival, eat beef soup jiaozi and big stuffing jiaozi in January, eat whole grains rice in the last Lantern Festival, and eat "little bird's egg" porridge on the winter solstice.