The Korean people especially like to talk about the word "conscience". Parents want their children to become conscientious and capable people from an early age.

Having a "conscience" and "whether the conscience is upright or not" have become important indicators for evaluating a person's behavior and behavior, and a mantra when discussing people.

In a village, if anyone is considered to have no conscience or has a bad conscience, he will be despised and disliked by the whole village.

The life rituals of the Korean people include the "Hundred Day Banquet", the first birthday banquet and other congratulatory rituals for the baby, the crowning ceremony (the hairpin ceremony for women has disappeared), weddings, as well as the sixtieth birthday banquet and the entering armor ceremony. Etiquette and funerals to celebrate longevity such as banquets, Hakko banquets, and weddings.

(1) "Hundred Day Banquet": refers to a banquet held to wish the baby good luck and long life when the baby is 100 days old.

The people who came to congratulate brought white thread locks to put around the baby's neck, and some paper money was inserted into the white thread locks.

The baby's parents use white rice to make "white ice cream" and distribute it to "one hundred people" at the crossroads to wish the baby a long life.

(2) "First Birthday Banquet": One is to congratulate the baby on spending the first spring, summer, autumn and winter in life, and the other is to wish for a bright future.

On this day, the children are given new clothes, a banquet is held with relatives, neighbors, and friends, and the children are allowed to have a good time.

The so-called "grabbing week" is to set up the "birthday table" with books, pens, money, knives and various foods on it, and let the children grab whatever they want, and "take the first thing" "Judge" their future "interests".

If the first things to grab are pens and books, it indicates that there will be literary talents in the future.

(3) Wedding: The old-style Korean wedding contains ancient etiquette elements such as "Dianyan Ceremony", "Bowing Ceremony", "Henuo Ceremony" and so on.

Since the 1950s, new-style weddings have gradually replaced old-style weddings.

In the new-style wedding, there are procedures such as reading the marriage certificate, the bride and groom exchanging gifts, saluting or kneeling to each other, the bride and groom kneeling to their parents, and family representatives from both parties speaking.

Whether it is a wedding held at the bride's home, the groom's home, or a wedding at a hotel, it is indispensable to set up a banquet for the bride and groom, that is, the bride and groom accept the "big table".

This is a traditional etiquette from old-style weddings.

A variety of food is placed on the big table, the most conspicuous and distinctive of which is a steamed whole rooster with a red pepper in its mouth.

The rooster symbolizes the joy of marriage, and the red pepper symbolizes the love of the bride and groom, a prosperous life and many children.

After the groom finished the three glasses of wine poured by the best man, he asked to pick out a little bit of each food on the big table so that he could present it to his parents for tasting. This was called a "gift package."

Three peeled hard-boiled eggs are buried in the groom's rice bowl. The groom can only eat half the bowl of rice and one or two eggs, leaving the remaining half for the bride.

(4) Etiquette to celebrate longevity: including the Sixtieth Banquet, the Jinjia Banquet, the Eighth Jia Banquet, the Jiujia Banquet and the Return Wedding.

The Sixtieth Birthday Banquet is a congratulatory banquet organized by his children to commemorate his 60th birthday. It is also called the Huanjia Banquet and the Huijia Banquet. It is quite grand.

The Jinjia Banquet is a celebration banquet held after turning 60 and entering a new Jiazi.

The Bajia Banquet and Jiujia Banquet are celebration banquets held for 80th and 90th birthdays.

The wedding is a congratulatory gift held to commemorate the 60th wedding anniversary.

However, three conditions must be met for a return wedding to be held: first, the time limit is the 60th anniversary of the marriage; second, the original couple must be married; third, the children born to the couple must be alive and have not committed crimes and are serving prison sentences.

Taboos of the Korean people

There have been many taboos in the daily life of the Korean people, including forbidden words, fasting, watching, touching, looking, etc.; These contents can also be classified into fertility taboos (including pregnancy taboos and taboos before and after childbirth), marriage taboos, funeral and ritual taboos, building and relocation taboos, farming taboos, belief taboos, etc.

For example, among the fertility taboos, pregnant women are prohibited from drinking from scoops and bowls with gaps, and pregnant women are not allowed to eat chicken for fear of not having milk after delivery.

In the marriage taboo, men and women with the same surname passed down from the same ancestor cannot marry, which is called "the same surname and the same origin"; men and women with different surnames passed down from the same ancestor cannot marry, this is called "Marriage is not allowed for people with different surnames and the same origin"; marriage with cousins ????is not allowed, this is "forbidden marriage among close relatives"; there is a funeral in the family, and marriage is not allowed within one year, this is called "forbidden marriage for close relatives", etc.

In the taboos of funerals and sacrifices, fish without scales such as loaches and eels cannot be used as sacrificial food because of their dragon-like shapes; When the sacrifices held after the New Year are called "god sacrifices"), chili powder cannot be sprinkled into the soup; dog meat cannot be placed on the sacrificial table; horsemouth fish cannot be placed on the sacrificial table because the lower lip of the horsemouth fish is shaped like the character "mountain", and mountain is the god. Place of residence.

In the taboos of building a house and moving, the front of the house should be open and the taboo should be exactly opposite the mountain; when moving, choose auspicious and ordinary days to avoid unfavorable days (7th, 17th, and 27th of each month in the lunar calendar) Days are auspicious days, 9th, 19th, 10th and 20th are ordinary days, and other days are unlucky days).

In the farming taboos, field sowing dates are divided into extended days and shortened days (the 1st to 5th, 11th to 15th, and 21st to 25th of each month in the lunar calendar are extended days, and the other days are shortened days). If you sow seeds in Sunri, the crops will grow well.

In addition, dogs are not killed on wedding and wedding days, etc.

Most of the various taboo customs of the Korean people have been abandoned, but some still continue to this day.

In short, the Korean people have inherited and carried forward their fine folk traditions and formed their own unique national customs and habits in the long process of production and life practice.