What are the taboos and folk customs of the Korean people? The more detailed the better.
Korean people don’t like to eat duck, mutton, and fatty pork. The elderly of the Korean ethnic group have a very high status, and their meals are usually prepared and eaten separately. If a father and his son sit at the same table, the son cannot smoke or drink in front of his father. It is taboo for Koreans to knock on the door. Visitors should call the host. There were many taboos in the daily life of the Korean people, including taboos on speaking, fasting, watching, touching, and looking at, etc. These taboos can also be classified as reproductive taboos (including taboos during pregnancy and taboos before and after childbirth). ), marriage taboos, funeral and ritual taboos, house building and relocation taboos, farming taboos, belief taboos, etc. For example, among the birth control taboos, pregnant women are prohibited from drinking from scoops and bowls with gaps, and pregnant women are not allowed to eat chicken for fear of lack of milk after delivery. Among the marriage taboos, men and women with the same surname passed down from the same ancestor cannot marry, which is called "the same surname and the same origin do not marry"; men and women with different surnames passed down from the same ancestor cannot marry, which is called "different surnames and the same origin do not marry" ; You cannot intermarry with your cousins, this is called "close relative marriage prohibition"; there is a funeral in the family, and you cannot get married within one year, this is called "marriage prohibition in case of funeral", etc.
In the taboos of funerals and sacrifices, fish without scales such as loaches and eels cannot be used as sacrificial food because of their dragon-like shapes; When the sacrifices held after the New Year are called "God Sacrifice", chili powder cannot be sprinkled into the soup; dog meat cannot be placed on the sacrificial table; horsemouth fish cannot be placed on the sacrificial table because the lower lip of the horsemouth fish is shaped like the character "mountain", and mountain is the god. Place of residence. Among the taboos for building a house and moving, the front of the house should be open and the taboo should be exactly opposite the mountain; when moving, you should choose auspicious and ordinary days to avoid unfavorable days (the 7th, 17th, and 27th of each month in the lunar calendar are auspicious days, and the 9th and 19th of each month are auspicious days. , 10th and 20th are ordinary days, and other days are unlucky days). Among the taboos for farming, field sowing dates are divided into stretching days and shrinking days (the 1st to 5th, 11th to 15th, and 21st to 25th of each month in the lunar calendar are stretching days, and the others are shrinking days). If you choose to sow on the stretching days, the crops will grow better. Well done. In addition, on weddings, weddings, and weddings, dogs are not killed, etc. Most of the various taboo customs of the Korean people have been abandoned, but some still continue to this day.
The Korean nation (Korean: Korean), also known as the Korean nation (Korean:), Chao, Koryo, etc., is one of the major ethnic groups in East Asia.
The Korean ethnic group is mainly distributed in the Korean Peninsula and is the main ethnic group in North Korea and South Korea. The two countries have a population of more than 70 million. In addition to North Korea and South Korea, countries with a Korean population of over one million include China and the United States. According to China’s sixth census in 2010, there are approximately 1.83 million Koreans in China. According to a 2012 U.S. Census Bureau survey, Koreans There are approximately 1.7 million Americans.
The name "Korean" (Korean/Korean:) refers specifically to the Korean ethnic minority in China [1], who are Chinese nationals with the nationality of the People's Republic of China. South Koreans, Koreans, overseas Koreans, and overseas Koreans do not call themselves "Korean."
Folk custom etiquette
The Korean nation has attached great importance to life etiquette since ancient times. There are many rituals from birth to death, among which the main rituals include birth ceremony, crown ceremony and hairpin ceremony, wedding ceremony, birthday ceremony, funeral ceremony and sacrificial ceremony, etc.
1. Birth ceremony: The Korean people regard birth ceremony as the beginning ceremony of life and are very particular about it. Among the birth rituals are "Ji Rope", "Hundred Days", "Zhu Zhou", etc.
2. Wedding: It is the most important event in Korean life rituals. In the past, there were many red tapes surrounding weddings. Although the scale, complexity and specific methods have changed and developed with the evolution of the times, the basic content and procedures of weddings have not changed significantly. Weddings are still carried out in the order of "wedding agreement", "receiving lottery", "receiving coins", and "welcoming the bride".
3. Birthday gifts: The Korean people also pay special attention to organizing "birthday gifts" for the elderly. Birthday gifts include the sixtieth birthday, the seventieth birthday, and the "return wedding" to commemorate the sixtieth wedding anniversary. The Sixtieth Birthday is a birthday banquet held by the Korean people for sixty-year-olds. According to the calculation of the heavenly stems and earthly branches of the traditional calendar, sixty years are regarded as a cyclic unit. Therefore, the Korean people regard the sixtieth birthday as a watershed in life and are particularly particular about it.
On the day of the Sixtieth Anniversary Banquet, the children put on a special dress for the old man, set up a birthday banquet in the hall, and invited relatives and friends to gather together to thank their parents for their upbringing. Offering longevity is a basic ritual. The old man in his 60s sits in the middle of the birthday banquet, and the birthday celebration begins. The order should be based on the age of the children, the relatives near and far, and even the guests, toasting the birthdays in turn.
4. Funeral rites: Since ancient times, the Korean people have regarded filial piety as the first of all deeds and attach great importance to funeral rites and sacrificial rites. The funeral mainly includes procedures such as summoning the soul, small funeral, large funeral, coffin transportation, funeral, burial, and monument erection. Soul summoning: after a person dies, the soul must be summoned first. There was a person standing on the roof or in the yard, facing north, waving the deceased's shirt and calling the deceased's name, asking him to take the clothes away. Yell this three times in a row. After summoning the soul, carry out the attack. The so-called burial is to bathe the deceased and put on the shroud. The so-called Xiaolian is to wrap the body of the deceased with white cloth. Da Lian means putting the wrapped corpse into the coffin. In old-fashioned funerals, a funeral ceremony was held on the third day after the death of the patient. On the second day after the funeral, the children and relatives of the deceased formally wear mourning clothes and hold a ceremony in mourning, which is called the "clothing ceremony." Then, the funeral is held. After that, carrying the coffin from the house to the outside is called coffin transport or coffin moving. A funeral is the process of transporting a coffin from home to a burial place, also known as a funeral procession. After placing the coffin on the mourning carriage, the bearers lifted the mourning carriage at the same time, taking one step forward and one step back, repeating this three times, and then walked forward. (Photo - The funeral coffin is a special coffin transport tool used by the Korean people.) When burying, you must ask a Feng Shui master to choose the cemetery first. When placing the coffin in the grave, it should be placed in a hillside grave with the head facing the top of the mountain; in a flat grave, The head faces north. In order to rely on collective strength to handle funerals, non-governmental organizations such as "Bereavement Management Contracts" appeared in villages where Koreans live, uniting neighbors to jointly solve specific difficulties encountered in funerals.