Korean Festival :SEOL - LUNAR NEW YEAR : the Most Important Korean Holidays"New Year's eve was yesterday, New Year's day is today..."
Sebe :which is the first greeting to the elders of the year.
Koreans celebrate the Lunar New Year. This year it was on February. On this very day the year of the Horse began. Seol is, along with " Chusok", one of the two most important holidays in Korea.
The New Year's greeting is "say hay boke-mahn he pah du say oh".Recently people have started to say "Make a lot of blessings this year". It is a more active saying, isn't it? I think that perhaps it's because of the hardships Korea is going through. If we observe the meaning of the greeting "say hay" means 'New Year', "boke" means 'blessings', "mahn he" means 'a lot' and "pah du say oh", 'please receive'. It literally means "Please receive many New year's blessings".Many New Year's blessings to you!
>>What do they do in the Lunar New Year's day?What are the common factors in Korean holidays?"Chesa" or the offering to ancestors: These offerings in holidays are called "chare" because it is served with liquors and teas. New Year's day is not an exception.Women get busy preparing the food from the previous day. They make "ttok", "garettok", fried meats. They buy fruits, clean the fishes and so on. They spend almost the entire day in the preparations. Nowadays even the dumplings are made at home. The food prepared the day before is placed on the altar. The difference is that instead of rice, as in any other "chesa", on "seolnal", "ttokuk" is on the offering table.Let's see what they do in the morning of "seolral" Very early in the morning they take a bath and put the "solbim" on. Solbim are new clothes, prepared to wear on seolnal. Usually it is the traditional custome, han bok.
>>What do people do in Seol-ral for fun?Kite flying, yut game, top-spinning, snow sliding, etc. are the usual entertainment. However, yut game is probably the most popular among them. Yut is one of the traditional Korean games that can be played anywhere. It's especially popular on New Year's Day. It is customary to play this game from New Year's day until January 15, called Daeborum. >>What to eat on seolral?There is a lot to eat on Korean holidays. If you are on a diet, it will be very difficult to avoid the temptation to all the delicious dishes. Ttok, meat fritters, dried persimmons, a variety of, walnut, dates, vegetables, traditional cookies, etc. Really exquisite foods.The most representative dish for New Year 's day is ttokkuk.
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Additional fact:Most housewives complain about this holiday.... Because according to them, they do almost all the preparations, they need to cook a lot of food and everything..... So ayun, when I've talked to them after the holiday, mega reklamo ang mga lolaa.. hahhaaa, ^o^v4 minutes ago
