Mid-Autumn Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional folk festival in East Asia, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month every year. Mid-Autumn Festival is not only a festival in China, but also a traditional festival in Japan and South Korea, influenced by China culture. According to the China lunar calendar, August is the second month of autumn, which was called Mid-Autumn Festival in ancient times. Therefore, the folk epiphany is called Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Chalk Festival, Moon Festival and Full Moon Festival, and it is also called Reunion Festival because the full moon on this day symbolizes reunion.
Mid-Autumn Festival in Korea
Will Koreans put English "Autumn Night" on their holiday schedule? It became Thanksgiving Day, because autumn evening is a big holiday in Korea, and it lasts for three days. When the traffic was underdeveloped in the past? People will use this time to go home to visit relatives. Nowadays, every month before autumn, Korean companies will cut prices to attract people to shop and give gifts to each other.
Mid-Autumn Festival in Japan
The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in Japan is also called Taro Month and Chestnut Month. Mid-Autumn Festival is no longer celebrated in modern Japan. On that day, people can stay at home and drink beer instead of watching the moon and watching TV programs. Due to the decline of traditional culture, young people don't know the origin and significance of festivals. When they heard about the festival, they only knew that they didn't have to go to work that day.
South Korea's Mid-Autumn Festival atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger.
Time: 00: 38 September 28, 2006 Author: Sharla Cheung News Source: Procuratorate Daily.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is getting closer and closer. When we are busy buying moon cakes to visit relatives and friends, the festive atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival in our neighbor Korea is getting stronger and stronger. In Seoul, the capital of South Korea, people began to buy holiday supplies in shopping malls and prepare to go home for the holidays.
South Korea has a long holiday this Mid-Autumn Festival.
Mid-Autumn Festival is the harvest season, and Koreans attach great importance to this festival. On this day, people will get together with their families, worship their ancestors, share all kinds of delicious food and visit relatives and friends. In the evening, the whole family will enjoy the moon, play games and enjoy the harvest.
South Korea's government, enterprises and shops all have Mid-Autumn Festival holidays, which are usually as short as three days and as long as one week. This year's 65438+10.3 is South Korea's Tiankai Festival, which is also the legendary day when Dangun, the ancestor of the Korean nation, was founded, so this year people can take six to nine consecutive days off and have a veritable long vacation. People have made various plans. Besides visiting relatives in the province, they also plan to have a thorough rest or travel at home and abroad. People who love beauty have already made an appointment for plastic surgery.
Because people have to go back to their hometown to spend the holidays with their parents before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the roads before the festival are crowded with cars returning home every year. Trains and coaches will also work overtime to transport people home. As early as mid-July this year, the station began to pre-sell the Mid-Autumn Festival return tickets, and many people have already got the return tickets. In a few days, there will be a long queue on the expressway to go home.
Because many residents in Seoul will go home for the Mid-Autumn Festival, the usually noisy Seoul will become very deserted. Last Mid-Autumn Festival, reporters and colleagues had planned to get together in a restaurant, but all the shops in the street were closed. We searched for an open-air restaurant for more than an hour and finally found a small restaurant for taxi drivers to fill their stomachs.
The reporter received a Mid-Autumn Festival gift from the President.
On the 25th, the reporter received a Mid-Autumn Festival gift from President Roh Moo-hyun and his wife Quan Liangshu. This year's Mid-Autumn Festival gift is representative tea from nine provinces in Korea, plus exquisite white tea sets. The gift was packed in a beautiful box with the bronzing signatures of Roh Moo-hyun and Liang Shu on the dark green box.
Look carefully, these nine kinds of teas are: White Lotus Tea in Gyeonggi Province, buckwheat tea in gangwon, Chungcheongbuk-do Herbal Tea, Gouqi Tea in Chungcheongnam-do, Burned White Lotus Tea in Jeollabuk-do, Baocheng Green Tea in Jeollanam-do, Anton Chrysanthemum Tea in Gyeongsangbuk-do, Hedong Green Tea in Gyeongsangnam-do and Acanthopanax Senticosus Tea in Jeju Island.
Every Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival, President Roh Moo-hyun sends Korean native products to foreign journalists and some foreigners working in Korea. South Korean media said that Roh Moo-hyun chose tea as a gift this year, which not only helped tea farmers to promote Korean tea, but also reflected the government's concept of governing the country with balanced regional development and national unity.
Koreans don't eat moon cakes, but muffins.
People in China pay attention to eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, while the representative food of Koreans on Mid-Autumn Festival is traditional muffins. The muffin is made by mixing rice flour with water, wrapping it with sesame, red bean, kidney bean, chestnut and other fillings, making it into a half-moon or shell shape, steaming it on pine leaves, and then coating a layer of sesame oil on its surface.
Koreans pay attention to ancestor worship in Mid-Autumn Festival, and there should be offerings for the sacrifice. On the eve of Mid-Autumn Festival, Koreans are most concerned about the price of "sacrificial table". The offerings on the table are: beef, pork, yellow croaker, anchovies, apples, pears, chestnuts, persimmons, bracken and platycodon grandiflorum. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Agriculture and Forestry Department, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival is a family of four, and the cost of sacrifice and table is about 6.5438+0.4 million won (654.38+0 US dollars is about 950 won). In order to ensure the normal supply of hot-selling products in Mid-Autumn Festival, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Korea increased the supply of rice, beef, pork, pears and other key varieties 10 at least twice as much as usual.
Koreans pay attention to giving gifts during the Mid-Autumn Festival. On the eve of Mid-Autumn Festival, shopping malls in Seoul have prepared various gift boxes for people to choose from. Everything from expensive wine to cosmetics (soap, toothpaste, shampoo) and coffee. According to the survey, gift boxes of about 654.38 million won are the most popular.
Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, there were various opinion polls about it, and people also had different views on it. Many people regard holidays as a burden. Generally speaking, men think that the economic burden is much greater, while women think that too much housework is too tiring.