11 representative cultures in Korea: 1. Hanbok 2. Korean ginseng 3. Kimchi 4. Barbecue 5. Buddhist Temple 6. Seokguram 7. Korean characters 8. Taekwondo 9. Masked drama 11. Sacrificial music at the ancestral temple 11. Shereshan

Korean folk culture: There are many interesting folk customs in Korea, most of which still have a back frame: the carrying tools for Koreans. Directly on the shoulder, as a living appliance for carrying goods. Used to carry firewood, agricultural products, etc. Bed-wetting ghost: In the past, if Korean children peed on their bedding, they had to wear a dustpan to beg for salt the next morning. This is an educational custom.

Dice game:

This is a popular folk game among men, women and children from the first day to the fifteenth day of the first month. The game method is to throw the dice and move the pieces to decide the outcome. There are five names for craps: pig, dog, sheep, cow and horse, which are familiar animals in daily life. According to their size and walking speed.

Beating clothes:

Late at night in winter, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law beat clothes with a smile, but they didn't know it was dead of night. It was really beautiful. After washing the clothes, the women beat them with sticks, making them straight and shiny like new clothes.

Plowing:

Koreans, as a farming people, have to plough the land for sowing seeds. There are many kinds of farmers in cultivated land, among which the plow is an agricultural tool that uses cow power. Korean traditional farm tools showing the wisdom of ancestors.

Tamping rice and beating rice cakes:

Mortars are agricultural tools for pounding grain or grinding into powder. The wooden hammer is a prop for beating cakes. In order to make rice cakes, Korean women pound rice into flour with a mortar and then steam it out in a pot. Then the man hit it with a wooden hammer, and it was soft. You can often see this situation when making white rice cakes in the first month.

Cut gourd:

Koreans use gourd to eat pickles or make other daily necessities, which is one of the most practical plants. In "Biography of Xing Fu", gourd brings richness and happiness to kind people. In autumn, it also brings rich scenes to farmers.

Springboard:

One of Korean women's favorite folk games. Popular at the beginning of the year, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other big festivals. Mainly young women's favorite games with a large amount of activity. A long wooden board is padded with straw bales or straw bags in the middle, and both ends of the board face one person at each station, and then take turns to jump up.

In Korea, men bow slightly when they meet, shaking hands or joining hands. Bow when you break up. Men can't shake hands with women. When talking, you should avoid topics such as Korean domestic politics, Japanese trade friction and the host's wife. Koreans have strong self-esteem, so you should avoid public criticism or dissent when talking with them.

South Korea values men. When going out, women let men go first, and the speech at the banquet begins with "Ladies and Gentlemen". On occasions such as banquets, men and women engage in social activities separately. When two people are talking in the aisle, let a third person pass between them.

In South Korea, the elderly are given special respect. You can't smoke in front of them, and you should take off your sunglasses when talking with them.

Visiting a friend's home in Korea

Korea is known as the "country of etiquette", and Koreans attach great importance to the cultivation of etiquette and morality. Respecting the elders is a traditional etiquette that Korean nationalities abide by.

Koreans are hospitable. Whenever guests visit, they always hold a welcoming ceremony with appropriate specifications according to their identity. When receiving foreign leaders, they should hold a grand welcoming ceremony in accordance with international practice. Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets to welcome or send them off, and the scene was grand. No matter what occasion they meet foreign friends, Koreans are always polite, warm greetings, decent conversation, take the initiative to give way and wave goodbye.

when you are invited to a Korean friend's home, the host's home must make full preparations in advance and clean the indoor and outdoor areas. Koreans have a strong sense of time. People always wait for the arrival of guests at the appointed time, and some families even want the whole family to meet them outdoors. When the guests arrived, the host bowed down to welcome them and warmly welcomed them into the home, with drinks, fruits and other entertainment. Koreans have always been generous in hospitality, and the host always wants to keep the guests for dinner. Many families also want to keep the guests who are far away for a few days at home and treat them with rich meals.

Korean social etiquette and food customs

Koreans like to entertain guests with dog meat. When guests come, buy a dog, slaughter it, cook it into dog broth with its skin, serve it with cold salad, entertain guests to drink, tear up dog meat and drink the broth.

to make pork soup, we should use the original soup of boiled dogs, add cooked shredded dog meat, refined salt, Chili noodles, coriander, shredded onion and cooked sesame seeds, and then mix with soy sauce, mustard sauce, leek flowers and Chili noodles at will. The delicious boiled dog meat is shredded, and then add shredded onion, Jiang Mo, minced garlic, coriander, clear salt and cooked sesame seeds.

Cooked dog hearts, kidneys, livers, etc. can be sliced, or mixed into dishes with the above seasonings. These are also traditional wine dishes for entertaining guests.

Korean food "gift"

There are two internal structures in Korean restaurants: using chairs and taking off shoes to get on the kang.

When eating on the kang, men sit cross-legged and women stand on their right knees-this sitting method is only used when wearing Hanbok. Nowadays, Korean women don't wear hanbok at ordinary times, so just put their legs together and sit down. After sitting on a good dish, in a short time, the aunt in the restaurant will take out the tableware first, and then the food.

Koreans usually use flat-pointed chopsticks made of stainless steel. Both China and Japan have the habit of eating with rice bowls, but Koreans regard this behavior as irregular. And you can't touch the rice bowl with your mouth. A bowl with a round bottom and a lid sits on the table, and there is no handle for you to hold. Coupled with the heat transferred from the rice to the bowl, it is reasonable not to touch it. As for the bowl cover, you can take it off and put it on the table at will.

since you misbehave, your left hand must be obedient and honestly hidden under the table, and you must not "show your hand" on the table. The right hand must first pick up the spoon, drink a mouthful of soup from the pickle, then eat a mouthful of rice with the spoon, and then eat a mouthful of soup and rice, and then you can eat anything at will. This is the order in which Koreans eat. Spoons are more important than chopsticks in the diet of Koreans. They are responsible for holding soup, fishing for vegetables in soup and loading rice. When not in use, they should be placed on rice bowls or other utensils. And chopsticks? It is only responsible for picking vegetables. No matter how you can't get the bean sprouts out of your soup bowl with a spoon, you can't use chopsticks. First of all, it is a matter of food ceremony, and secondly, soup may flow down the chopsticks to the table. When chopsticks are not holding vegetables, the traditional Korean practice is to put them on the table in the right hand direction, with two chopsticks together, two thirds on the table and one third outside the table, which is convenient to pick up and use.

Koreans are an emotional people. We should fully understand how we express our feelings through dinner, and at the same time, we must intellectually admit that it is an unsanitary "food gift".

Korean drinking etiquette

If a Korean has a distinguished guest at home, the host feels very honored and usually treats him with good wine and food. Guests should drink as much as possible and eat more vegetables. The more you eat, the more proud your host feels.

when drinking, Koreans are very polite. Pour wine in order of status, status and seniority at the banquet, and the person with the highest position will raise a glass first, and others will follow in turn. Those who are too different in rank and seniority cannot drink at the same table. Under special circumstances, the younger generation and subordinates can drink with their backs turned.

The traditional concept is that "the right is superior to the left", so it is considered impolite to hold a cup or take wine with your left hand.

with permission, subordinates and juniors can propose a toast to their superiors and seniors. The toaster holds the bottle in his right hand, holds the bottom of the bottle in his left hand, bows and makes a speech, and pours wine for his superiors and predecessors for three cups in a row, but the toaster himself does not drink it. It should be noted that when people with different status drink and clink glasses together, those with low status should hold the cup low, and touch the other person's cup body with the rim of the cup, not touching it horizontally, and not holding the cup higher than the other person, otherwise it is impolite.