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🧧 All you need to know about Korean New Year (PART 2) 🧧
This is the 2nd part of my series about Korean New Year, so don't forget to check the 1st part out as well!
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1. Ancestral rites and New Year's bow (차례 및 세배)
Korean New Year is typically a family holiday. It may vary depending on the religion or family tradition, but during the first morning, Koreans pay their respect towards their ancestors and eat rice cake soup. Eating rice cake soup on New Year's Day means that you will get one year older.
After the ancestral rites, everyone goes around and gives New Year's bows to their relatives or neighbors. The New Year's bow is meant to express gratitude to the elderly and wish them good health. The elders who receive New Year's bow can give back New Year's cash gifts or words of blessing to the younger ones.
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2. New Year's dress (설빔)
On Korean New Year's Day, everyone would woke up early, wash their faces and change into new clothes that are called 설빔 or 세장. These clothes have colorful and fancy designs and are usually prepared before the New Year's Eve. They are also usually worn until the day of the first full moon of the year (by the lunar calendar).
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3. Traditional dishes for the New Year (설음식)
Dishes that are served in Korean New Year are called 세찬 and the alcohol is called 세주. On New Year's Day, people make various dishes and serve them to guests who come over for a visit, rice cake soup is always a must. Rice cake soup made with white rice is served as a gift to the ancestors or served to guests on New Year's Day morning. Since Koreans eat rice cake soup every New Year, when they ask children for their ages they usually ask "How many bowls of rice cake soup did you eat?".
Making rice cake soup using white rice cake on New Year's Day seems to have originated from the idea of sun worship, as the white rice cake stands for a bright future, and the round shape of the rice cake stands for the Sun.
On New Year's Day, in addition to rice cake soup, people also eat beef kebab, grilled short rib patties, sweet rice drink, persimmon punch, etc.
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4. Folk games
As the Korean lifestyle moves towards the city, folk games culture is gradually disappearing. Some families still play flower cards (화투) or enjoy different modern games instead. The traditional folk games on New Year's Day are as follows.
Game of yut (윷놀이): It is a game that is enjoyed by all walks of life. It is a game in which several "horses" are moved according to the number of yut thrown out, the person who can travel across the prescribed path to the end wins.
Korean board game (말판놀이): the game is played by throwing a yut or dice that have different drawings of jobs on them, the players move accordingly to what the dice say to reach the intended part.
Korean see-saw game (널뛰기): It is a game in which a thick board is placed on a straw mat and the players takes turn to stomp on the board and try to jump as high as possible.
Kite flying (연날리기): A simple game of kite flying. But, sometimes, people do have a battle against one another, the goal is to cut the other's kite string. A kite is usually sent off with the character 厄 written on it.
Jegichagi (제기차기): It is a game in which a "jegi" is made by wrapping coins in silk or paper, then the player has to kick the "jegi" continuously without dropping it to the ground.
Top-spinning game (팽이치기): It's a game where you hit the top with thread and spin it so that it doesn't stop spinning.
Tuho (투호): It's a game where you throw as many arrows as you can into a jar.
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5. Fortune-telling
On New Year's Day, Koreans usually predict the fortune of the coming year.
To-jong bi-gyeol (토정비결): Use one's birthday to predict their fortune.
Cheong-cham (청참): Use the first sounds (of either people or animals) that one hears at the dawn of the New Year's Day to predict their fortune.
The five elements fortune telling (오행점): Use wooden boards or leaflet that have the letters of five elements (gold, wood, water, fire, soil) to predict one's fortune.
Yut fortune telling (윷점): Throw the Yut sticks to predict one's fortune.
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6. Bokjori (복조리)
After the early morning of New Year's Day or the midnight of New Year's Eve, there is a custom of buying strainers made by thin bamboo strips and hanging them on the wall. These strainers are called 복조리. Sellers across the country travel around the streets all night from the night before to sell these strainers to people.
This custom can be attributed to the fact that strainer is an instrument that is used to wash rice. But in this case, people want to wash out the bad luck and only keep the good luck in the strainer.
In addition, there is a folk belief that if you buy enough strainers to use for a year on New Year's Day and hang them in the corner of the room or the garden, as you use the strainers, you will be blessed throughout that year.
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(09.23.2020) || Today I....
Graded thirty lab reports
Had three separate research related meetings
Made mildly substantial progress on my current research related task
Taught a microprocessor lab
Went to class and spent an hour going over the material to make sure I understood
Worked out
Cooked dinner with my mom
Check in on a friend
Still don’t feel like I did enough
This is just a reminder that you do not need to be (and shouldn’t be) ‘productive’ every minute of the day. If you have an hour (or five) free and you choose to watch netflix, chat with a friend, or do something else that makes you happy you are not wasting time. You as a person are more valuable than what you produce; and the two are not the same—productivity != value.
honestly im sick of all these perfectionism acceptance posts
you know what i mean
‘fuck work....as I arrive on time everyday.’ if you want to tell work to fuck off, go ahead. seriously. do it. you’re gonna live.
‘ugh i hate school so much it’s such a bullshit institution...but i have to keep my grades up and do all this AP homework to suceed!’ no, actually. you’ll live and get accepted to schools with or without asskissing and pretending to be rebel when you’re actually a lemming.
and a note, before y’all come after me: I was a diagnosed perfectionist. I went through years of therapy to get through it. to break down the constructs I, with the help of society, had placed.
it’s not healthy. it’s not funny. it’s not sustainable, either. i don’t care if spending 8 hours straight on a paper is what you think you need to do to get to college. or, if you’re in college, to pass. it’s not. i promise you, it’s not. i’ve been through all of it, the high school crap, the college admissions crap, all of it. and all without taking it too seriously.
i know it feels safer and a surer shot right now to just keep perpetuating grind culture and all work and no play, hustle culture, but it’s not good for your well being or future. You’ll burn out.
This planner by Ruby Granger features a box in the bottom left corner for users to rate their productivity and enjoyment. Putting these together implies a relationship between the two, therefore encouraging users to relate personal satisfaction with their ability to be productive.
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