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Seollal, or Korean Lunar New Year is a holiday and celebration which marks the first day of the Korean Lunar Calender. In 2014, Seollal falls on Friday, January 31st - though the celebration is typically three days long, beginning the day before and ending the day after. Traditionally, families gather from all over Korea at the house of their oldest male relative to pay their respects to both ancestors and elders. The centerpiece of the holiday is the ritual of ancestor worship, but there are other activities including eating together, playing games and “Sebae where children and students bow to their elders and receive small gifts of money.
Ritual: The family traditionally participates in a highly structured ritual of ancestor reverence, referred to as charye. Charye involves the preparation of food by female relatives and the serving of food to ancestors by male relatives. Both sexes participate in the final step of the ceremony called eumbok, by eating the food and thereby gaining the ancestors blessing for the coming year. The food prepared for the ancestors differs by region, but rules like the placement of the food are generally similar.
Korean Lunar New Year Foods (seollal)
Food: Though the food prepared for the ceremony of charye differs by region, the most common varieties are rice, soup, meat, seafood, liquor, fruit and vegetables. Another very common dish is ddeokguk, or rice cake soup which, though eaten throughout the year, carries special significance on Seollal. Children are especially excited to eat ddeokguk because consuming a bowl marks a person’s Lunar Calendar Birthday. There are scattered reports of youngsters trying to grow more than one year by consuming multiple bowls of ddeokguk, but the jury is still out on whether it does in fact accelerate the aging process! Much like Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving) people spend days preparing large quantities of food for Seollal, sometimes resulting in what is called Myung Cheol Chung Hu Kun or “Post-Holiday Trauma.” This holiday exhaustion can also be the result of driving long distances, enjoying too much great food, or dealing with the clean-up after all the relatives have left.
Games: When not eating or catching-up on each other’s lives, families often play games like GoStop and Yut Nori. Most families in Korea own a set of “Hwatu” playing cards in much the same way households in the West own 52-card decks. GoStop is an easy to learn game, often involving the betting of smalls sums of money, and is played by 2 or 3-people using “Hwatu” cards. Hwatu means “Battle of Flowers” and refers to the colorful images painted on the 48 cards in the deck. Each deck is broken into 12 sets of 4 similarly painted cards representing the 12 months in the year. Players score points by matching features of the cards in a variety of combinations, and after scoring 3 or 7 points, must decide whether to continue “going or “stop” the game. Players add-up their points, which are modified by the number of times they said “go” and then exchange small sums of money based on their total number of points. Games are short, rarely lasting longer than 15 minutes but are a great way for everyone to unwind and have some fun. GoStop can get loud due to the belief that yelling when playing your cards can improve luck.
Yut Nori is by many accounts a much older game than GoStop, and there is no limit to the number of players. For all intents and purposes, Yut Nori is a race to the finish based on the throwing of four marked sticks instead of dice to determine movement. The object is for each team to get its four “Mals” or horses back to and past the finish line, which is also the starting line. Yut Nori is often played as a first to 3 wins” game but the rules are malleable and the number of wins, players, and special or “house” rules is really up to the participants.
Lunar New Year In South Korea
Seollal is a time for remembering ancestors, visiting family, great food and fun. Just make sure not to end up with a case of Post-Holiday Trauma! Sae Hae Bok Mani Ba Du Seo! (Happy New Year!)This article is about the festival and national holiday of Korea observed on the Korean caldar. For other traditions of celebrating the lunar New Year in other regions of Asia, see Lunar New Year.
It is one of the most important traditional holidays for ethnic Koreans, being celebrated in both North Korea and South Korea as well as Korean diaspora all around the world.
Seol, writt as 설 in Middle Korean in Hangul, means year of age since it is also the date wh Koreans grow a year older, though in South Korea this has changed as of 2023.
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Nal 날 means day in Korean, derived from Old Korean *NAl. The Hanja term won-il (月日 ) is used, wh referring to the date of the lunar new year of the Korean caldar itself. The Korean lunisolar caldar, like most other East Asian caldars such as those of Japan, Mongolia, Vietnam, among others, are all derived from historical variants of Chinese ones such as the Shixian caldar of the Ming dynasty. China and Japan use differt terms for their respective new years, such as 正月 or 元日 , which are derived from Classical Chinese.
During this time, many Koreans would visit their family, perform ancestral rites, wear the hanbok (한복 , 韓服 ) / Chosŏn-ot (조선옷 , 朝鮮옷 ), eat traditional food and play traditional folk games. One of the most well known practices in the currt day is receiving money from their elders after performing a formal bow, a tradition likely adopted from Confucian customs.
Seollal gerally occurs in January or February on the second new moon after the winter solstice, unless there is an intercalary elevth or twelfth month in the lead-up to the New Year. In such a case, the New Year falls on the third new moon after the solstice.
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lunar new year, also known as 'Gujeong' (Korean: 구정 ; Hanja: 舊正 )). 'Seollal' may also refer to Yangnyeok Seollal (Korean: 양력 설날 ; Hanja: 陽曆설날 ;
The earliest attestations of the festivals and customs surrounding Seollal are found in the Dongyi section of Volume 30 of the Book of Wei (魏書 東夷傳), of the contempotary Chinese historical work called the Records of the Three Kingdoms (三國志).
Worshipping evts with the celebration of singing and dancing was recorded in Buyeo during what was the 12th month (殷正月 ) of the Chinese caldar at that time.
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The earliest records of Seollal celebrations are included in the 7th ctury Chinese historical works, called the Book of Sui (隋書) and the Old Book of Tang (舊唐書), containing excerpts of national rituals and festivals in Silla in the 7th ctury. Discontinued practices for worshipping deities from the native folk religion such as the ones of the sun and moon are also mtioned.
The oldest surviving Korean records of Seollal can be found in the Samguk yusa (三國遺事), compiled in the 13th ctury. During the rule of Bicheo (also called Soji), 21st ruler of Silla, in 488 AD a number of unfortunate evts surrounding an affair betwe a high ranking person responsible for shrines (宮主) and a noble, that coincided with a specific lineup of Zodiac signs led to the day also being nicknamed Daldo (怛忉).
The customs and ceremonies for Seollal have be passed onto in time and continued to Goryeo, Joseon as well as the modern day. By the 13th ctury, the Korean new year was one of the nine major national festivals of Goryeo, according to the Goryeosa.
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By the 1890s, Korea was increasingly politically intimidated by the Empire of Japan after Chinese suzerainty (under the Qing Dynasty at the time) over Korea severely diminished after the First Sino-Japanese War. By 1907, celebrating Seollal was banned. Korea's last de jure emperor, Sunjong, under intse pressure by the Japanese, had no choice to act the ban despite reluctance by himself and the Korean people. The Japanese rulers had forced the Koreans to do what they say as part of cultural assimilation and gocide.
In 1910, Korea was officially annexed by the Empire of Japan after years of war, intimidation and political machinations. During this period, the Japanese reiterated the prohibition of celebrating Seollal.
The Japanese rulers set the official Korean New Year to follow the Japanese New Year which was set at the first day of the Gregorian caldar since the Meiji Restoration.
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After the liberation of Korea in 1945 and prior to the Korean War in 1950, the provisional Korean governmt designated the period from 1 to 3 January of the Gregorian caldar as a public new year holiday.
In 1980s South Korea, there was widespread opinion among South Koreans that Seollal should be re-designated as a national holiday. Factors include respecting cultural traditions was raised,
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