Mid Autumn Festival

in Korea
Team 2
 CONTENTS
2.Typical dishes 4.Traditional games
during Chuseok during Chuseok
holiday holiday

1.Origin and 3.Typical activities

meaning of during Chuseok
Chuseok holiday holiday
1.Origin and meaning of Chuseok holiday
Origin of Chuseok holiday
Since ancient times, every August will be the harvest season for
ripe rice. For Korean ancestors, this is the happiest and most
joyful time of the year because after a period of hard farming,
there is a bumper crop.

On the 15th day of the 8th lunar month - the full and
largest moon day of the year, they will hold a festival.
Then they celebrate, have fun and dance. This can be
considered the origin of today's Chuseok Festival.
 Meaning of Chuseok holiday

Chuseok is
Chuseok is
The old year's farming time has ended.
considered a day to thank heaven, earth and
ancestors for a good harvest.

Chuseok is
Chuseok is Pray for a better harvest next year.
a day to enjoy the fruits of the past season.
2.Typical dishes during Chuseok holiday
 Songpyeon

Called Songpyeon
Songpyeon is Songpyeon is
because
typical cakes are made with new rice every time the cake is steamed, Koreans often shaped like a semicircle with the hope of
flour, filled with sesame leaves, beans, put pine needles in it. bringing a bright and successful future to
etc. every family.
 Toranguk

Toranguk is Toranguk will be

an indispensable dish during the Korean Mid- boiled in rice water or salt water.
Autumn Festival.

Toranguk is Toranguk will be

called earth egg. stewed with beef tendon or beef brisket to
create a frugal flavor.
 Baekju

Chuseok is At the Chuseok party, Baekju wine is

the Reunion Festival, so on this holiday the taste of Baekju wine is indispensable. often brewed and fermented from newly
Korean people like to gather to eat and drink harvested rice in the recently ended season.
with family and friends.
3.Typical activities during Chuseok holiday
 Charye

On the morning of the

holiday,
they gathered to hold a worshiping ceremony to
commemorate their ancestors.

Chuseok is
an important occasion for Korean families to show
respect to their ancestors.
4.Traditional games during Chuseok hoiliday
 Ssireum
Ssireum is Ssireum is During the match,
an opportunity for boys to show their bravery held on grass or sand in the form of a two wrestlers face each other in a circular
and strength. knockout match. sand pit and try to defeat the other with their
strength and skill.

The last person The reward is

standing is the winner and is honored as the cloth, rice or a calf.
strongest person in the village
 Ganggangsullae

Ganggangsullae
originates The Korean army
from the women of Seonam Haean province
has won many victories partly thanks to this
tactic.

The Korean army

Women will dressed young women in the village in
military uniforms and stood in a circle around
wear Hanbok hold hands to form a circle and the mountain.
sing together.
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