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Chusok, Folk Holiday of Korea
2024-01-13
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Chusok, Folk Holiday of Korea
August 15 according to the lunar calendar is called Chusok in Korea.
Chusok, a folk holiday celebrating a good harvest before harvesting a new crop of the year, was the greatest of the folk holidays in the year from ancient times.
The Koreans began to celebrate Chusok as a great holiday from the period of the Three States.
According to "The Chronicles of the Three States", on this day the women especially enjoyed the hand weaving (process of weaving cotton cloth by hand).
The swinging and Korean wrestling were also played.
On this day people made foods with the year’s new grains and visited the grave of ancestors to perform an ancestral sacrifice.
This is related to the worship of ancestors, but it shows the beautiful traits of the Korean people who respect their seniors and promote the friendly relations between the relatives.