![]() Harvest crops are attributed to the blessing of ancestors. South Koreans consider autumn the best season of the year due to clear skies, cool winds, and it is the perfect harvesting weather. The rest of the day is spent playing folk games and bonding with the family members. Then, they visit the tombs of their immediate ancestors to trim plants, clean the area around the tomb, and offer food, drink, and crops to their ancestors. People perform ancestral worship rituals early in the morning. Chuseok celebrates the bountiful harvest and strives for the next year to be better than the last. In contemporary South Korea, on Chuseok, masses of people travel from large cities to their hometowns to pay respect to the spirits of their ancestors. Traditional customs Yakgwa Another table with many traditional food offerings on it In some areas, if there is no harvest, worship rituals are postponed, or in areas with no annual harvest, Chuseok is not celebrated. New harvests are offered to local deities and ancestors, which means Chuseok may have originated as a worship ritual. Many scholars also believe Chuseok may originate from ancient shamanistic celebrations of the harvest moon. It is believed that weaving competitions, archery competitions, and martial arts demonstrations were held as part of the festivities. ![]() On the day of Gabae, the team that had woven more cloth won and would be treated to a feast by the losing team. Gabae started during the reign of the third king of the kingdom of Silla (57 BC – AD 935), when it was a month-long weaving contest between two teams. Another major custom is to prepare the family's ancestors their favorite meals as an offering.Īccording to popular belief, Chuseok originates from gabae ( Korean: 가배 Hanja: 嘉俳 There are two major traditions related to Chuseok: Charye ( Korean: 차례 Hanja: 茶禮, ancestor memorial services at home, also known as Jesa), and Seongmyo ( Korean: 성묘 Hanja: 省墓, family visit to the ancestral graves), which is usually accompanied by Beolcho ( Korean: 벌초 Hanja: 伐草, tidying graves, removing weeds around them). and dongdongju ( Korean: 동동주 Hanja: 浮蟻酒). It is the biggest traditional holiday in South Korea.Īs a celebration of the good harvest, Koreans visit their ancestral hometowns and share a feast of Korean traditional food such as songpyeon ( Korean: 송편 Hanja: 松䭏), yakgwa, fruits like Asian pear and hallabong, and rice wines such as sindoju ( Korean: 신도주 Hanja: 新稻酒). at the very end of summer or in early autumn. ![]() Like many other harvest festivals around the world, it is held around the autumn equinox, i.e. ![]() In North Korea, they only celebrate for the day of chuseok. Chuseok ( Korean: 추석 Hanja: 秋夕, literally "autumn evening"), also known as Hangawi ( Hangul: 한가위 from Old Korean, "the great middle (of autumn)"), is a major mid-autumn harvest festival and a three-day holiday in South Korea celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar on the full moon. ![]()
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