The Korean people (Korean:, English: Korean), also known as the Korean people (Han:), the Korean people, Koryo and so on, is one of the major ethnic groups in East Asia.
The Korean nation is mainly distributed in the Korean Peninsula, is the main ethnic group of North Korea and South Korea, the two countries **** more than 70 million people. In addition to North Korea and South Korea, countries with a population of more than one million people of the Korean ethnic group include China and the U.S. According to the 2010 Sixth Census of China, there are about 1.83 million ethnic Koreans in China, and according to a 2012 survey by the U.S. Census Bureau, there are about 1.7 million Americans of Korean descent.
The designation "Korean" (Korean/Korean characters:) refers specifically to the Korean ethnic minority in China[1] and is a Chinese person with the nationality of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China. South Koreans, North Koreans, overseas Koreans, and overseas Koreans do not call themselves "Koreans".
Folklore and etiquette
The Korean people have attached great importance to the etiquette of life since ancient times. There are many rituals from birth to death, and the main rituals are birth ceremony, crown ceremony, maturity ceremony, wedding ceremony, birthday ceremony, funeral ceremony and sacrificial ceremony.
First, the birth rite: the Korean people regard the birth rite as the beginning of life rites, very careful. In the birth ceremony, there are "Jiyu", "Hundred Days", "Catch Week" and so on.
Second, the wedding: is the most important of the rituals of life of the Korean people a major event. In the past, around the wedding developed a lot of red tape, although with the evolution of the times, the size, complexity and specific ways have changed and developed, but the basic content of the wedding and the program has not changed significantly. The wedding is still according to the "marriage", "color", "money", "welcome" and other orders.
Third, birthday gift: the Korean people also pay special attention to the elderly to organize "birthday gift". Life ceremony has sixty "flower armor", seventy "old and thin", and commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the wedding "back to the wedding". Hwaja is a birthday banquet held by the Koreans for people who are 60 years old. According to the traditional calendar method, 60 years is considered as a cycle. Therefore, the Koreans regard the 60th birthday as a watershed in their lives and are particularly particular about it. On the day of the birthday feast, children put on a special dress for the old man and set up a birthday banquet in the hall, inviting friends and relatives to get together and thank their parents for raising them. The birthday dedication is the basic ceremony. When the old man is seated in the center of the banquet, the birthday dedication begins. The order should be in accordance with the order of the children, the order of the relatives near and far, and even the guests, in order to honor ...... >>
Dietary habits of the Korean people There are many traditional flavors of the Korean people, the most famous of which is the cake, cold noodles, pickles. The cake is made of steamed glutinous rice, cut into pieces, sprinkled with soybean flour, and sweetened with honey and sugar. Cold noodles are made by adding starch and water to buckwheat noodles, mixing them well, boiling them, cooling them with cool water, adding sesame oil, chili peppers, kimchi, soy sauce beef and beef broth, etc., which is cool and refreshing to eat and has a delicious flavor. Kimchi is made by soaking cabbage for a few days, rinsing it, mixing it with chili peppers and other ingredients, and sealing it in a vat. The longer the pickling time, the more delicious the flavor. Rice cake: One of the favorite traditional foods of the Korean people. It has a long history and has been recorded in Korean literature as early as the 18th century, when it was called "Jungjaebok" and was known as one of the traditional foods. Nowadays, every family serves rice cakes to their friends and relatives during festivals and celebrations. As the name suggests, the cake is made by beating. Glutinous rice is the main ingredient of the cake. Where glutinous rice is not produced, small yellow rice or millet is used; the sprinkled soybean flour raw materials, in addition to small red beans, you can also use soybeans, mung beans, pine nuts, chestnuts, red dates, sesame seeds and so on. Production, the first sticky rice steamed, placed in the cake groove or on the slate, with a cake mallet to break the rice grains bonded together into a piece. When eating, it is cut into small pieces with a knife dipped in water and dipped into the cake noodles. Cold Noodles: One of the traditional foods of the Korean people. Korean people love to eat cold noodles not only in the hot summer, but also in the cold winter months. Especially at noon on the fourth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Koreans have the custom of eating cold noodles with the whole family. According to folklore, if you eat noodles on this day, you can "live a long life", so cold noodles are also called "longevity noodles". Cold noodles are the main raw materials are buckwheat noodles, wheat flour and starch, but also available cornmeal, sorghum flour, elm bark noodles and potato starch production. Practice is in the buckwheat noodles with starch, water, and even into the noodles, cooked with cool water cooling, plus sesame oil, chili, pickles, soy sauce beef and beef broth made to eat cool and refreshing, delicious flavor. Eumyeongju: Drinking "Eumyeongju" is a custom of the Korean people. On the morning of the 15th day of the first lunar month, they drink Ear Ming Wine on an empty stomach to wish for a good ear. This wine is not special, but all the wine drunk on the morning of the 15th day of the first lunar month is called "Ear Ming Wine". Three Volts and Dog Meat Soup: Three Volts is the hottest season of the year. However, the Korean people have the custom of slaughtering dogs and eating hot dog soup on the day of three volts. This kind of soup has a unique flavor, and eating dog meat soup on the day of three volts can be a great tonic. Most Korean people love to eat dog meat. However, during festivals, or to organize red and white wedding is absolutely not allowed to eat dog meat. This is a custom and a kind of etiquette. Grain Rice: The Korean people have been eating grain rice for a long time. On the 15th day of the first lunar month, farmers use river rice, rhubarb rice, millet, sorghum rice, small beans made of grains and rice to eat. Also take some of them into the cattle trough, to see which one the cattle eat first, will indicate which kind of food this year can be a good harvest. This custom is still in the folklore. Rice Wine: A favorite drink of the Korean people. Rice wine is a good gift for their guests. If a guest comes to visit, the host will always bring up a bowl of home-brewed rice wine. This kind of wine is a little whiter than yellow wine and slightly sweeter. This kind of rice wine has a strong aftertaste. When the elders drink together, you should move your head to the side to drink, never face the elders to raise the cup to drink, otherwise it is disrespectful to the elders. Spicy Cabbage: One of the favorite traditional foods of the Korean people. Every winter, when the cabbage comes down, they start to make spicy cabbage. At this time, whether in the countryside or towns, every family has to do, as little as a few hundred pounds, more than a thousand pounds, because they have to continue to eat until the next spring. Spicy cabbage, fragrant and refreshing, has the effect of relieving fatigue and alcohol, digestion, increase appetite, both at home on weekdays, and can be on the banquet. Therefore, it is doubly popular and has become an indispensable dish in the daily diet of the Korean people. Korean daily diet of the Korean people like to eat rice, good at making rice, water, fire are very careful to make rice with an iron pot, the bottom of the deep, close the mouth, cover tightly, the heat is uniform, can be stowed in the gas, made of rice particles, soft, rice flavor is pure. One pot at a time can make a double layer of rice with different textures, or multiple layers of rice. Various kinds of cakes made of rice flour, such as slice cake, loose cake, hair cake, rice cake, cold noodles, etc., are also the daily staple food of the Koreans. The daily dishes of the Joseon people include "Bajeongnyeon" and "Soyamul" (soybean paste and vegetable soup). The "Eight Precious Dishes" are dishes made from eight ingredients: mung bean sprouts, soy bean sprouts, tofu, dried tofu, vermicelli, orange stalks, ferns, and mushrooms, which are stewed, mixed, stir-fried, and sautéed. The main ingredient of the soup is small cabbage, autumn cabbage, Daxing cabbage, sea vegetables (with), etc. to the sauce instead of salt, blanch with water can be eaten. ...... >>
What is the general diet of the Korean people like to eat kimchi!
The diet of the Korean people! The main diet of the Korean people is generally rice and millet. Fish, meat, eggs, dairy products and seafood products as a supplement, basically vegetarian diet, with the meat-eating ethnic groups have a clear difference. Spicy kimchi is an indispensable dish in the diet. In addition, the cake, cold noodles, soy sauce soup, chili and dog meat are also very favorite.
Pork cake: one of the favorite traditional foods of the Korean people. The history of rice cake is relatively long, as early as in the 18th century, there are records in the relevant documents of the Korean people, at that time, called the rice cake as "Jungjae Cake", and said that Jungjae Cake has been called one of the traditional foods. Nowadays, every family serves rice cakes to their friends and relatives during festivals and celebrations. As the name suggests, the cake is made by beating. Glutinous rice is the main ingredient of the cake. Where glutinous rice is not produced, small yellow rice or millet is used; the sprinkled soybean flour raw materials, in addition to small red beans, you can also use soybeans, mung beans, pine nuts, chestnuts, red dates, sesame seeds and so on. Production, the first sticky rice steamed, placed in the cake groove or on the slate, with a cake mallet to break the rice grains bonded together into a piece. When you eat, use a knife dipped in water to cut into small pieces, dipped in the cake to eat.
Korean cold noodles: one of the traditional foods of the Korean people. Korean cold noodles have a long history. According to Japanese history books, in the first half of the 17th century, the Korean monk Tianzhen had already transmitted the method of making cold noodles to Japan. Korean people love to eat cold noodles not only in the hot summer, but also in the cold winter months. Especially at noon on the fourth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Korean people have the custom of eating cold noodles with the whole family. According to folklore, if you eat noodles on this day, you can "live a long life", so cold noodles are also called "longevity noodles". Cold noodles are the main raw materials are buckwheat noodles, wheat flour and starch, but also available cornmeal, sorghum flour, elm bark noodles and potato starch production. Practice is in the buckwheat noodles with starch, water, and even into the noodles, cooked with cool water cooling, plus sesame oil, chili peppers, pickles, soy sauce beef and beef broth made of eating cool and refreshing, delicious flavor.
Ear Ming Wine: Drinking "Ear Ming Wine" is a Korean custom. On the morning of the first day of the first month of the fifteenth, drink ear Ming wine on an empty stomach, in order to wish the ear, this wine is not special, all in the morning of the first day of the first month of the fifteenth morning drink wine, are called "ear Ming wine".
Three Volts and Dog Meat Soup: Three Volts is the hottest season of the year. However, the Korean people have the custom of slaughtering dogs and eating hot dog soup on the day of three volts. This sauce soup has a unique flavor, in the three ambient days to eat dog meat sauce soup can be a great tonic. Most Korean people love to eat dog meat. However, during festivals, or to organize red and white wedding is absolutely not allowed to eat dog meat. This is a custom, but also a kind of etiquette.
Rice of five grains: the Korean people eat rice of five grains for a long time. Silla State; the first month of the fifteenth day is called "the day of the crow taboo", with grains of rice offerings to sweep the crows. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, farmers made five grains of rice with river rice, rhubarb rice, millet, sorghum rice, small beans to eat. Also take some of them into the cattle trough, to see which one the cattle eat first, will indicate which kind of food this year can be a good harvest. This custom is still in folklore.
Rice wine: the Korean people love to drink a drink. Rice wine is a good gift for their guests, if the guests visit, the host will always bring up a bowl of home brewed rice wine. This kind of wine is slightly whiter than yellow wine, and it is also slightly sweet. This kind of rice wine has a strong aftertaste. When you drink with your elders, you have to move your head to the side to drink, and you can't face your elders and raise your glass to drink, otherwise it's disrespectful to your elders.
Spicy cabbage: one of the Korean people's favorite traditional food. Every winter, after the cabbage comes down, the valves start to make spicy cabbage. At this time, whether rural or urban, every family has to do, as little as a few hundred pounds, more than a thousand pounds, because it is necessary to continue to eat to the spring of the next year. Spicy cabbage, fragrant and refreshing, have to relieve fatigue and alcohol, digestion, increase appetite effect, both at home on weekdays, and can be on the feast. Therefore, it is very popular, and has become an indispensable dish in the daily diet of the Korean people.
The diet of the Korean people is usually not much fried vegetables
Make a little soup (usually at home is soy sauce soup, kimchi soup, soybean sprouts soup, kelp soup, all kinds of meat soup)
Make a few pickles to eat
Usually there are spicy cabbage, turnip pieces, and the wild vegetables are also very varied, and there are also rice packets ah, dip in the pickled vegetables, ah
Corn noodle ah, cold noodles
Noodle soup, glutinous rice, cold noodles
The Korean people have a lot of food in their diets, but they do not eat much food.
What do you drink?
Beer, shochu, rice wine, barley tea, and many other teas
Needed urgently ah ！！！！！ What are the characteristics of the Korean diet? Dietary preferences, staple foods, famous dishes, famous snacks or famous pastries.
Like to eat rice, good at making rice, water, fire are very careful to make rice with an iron pot, the bottom of the deep, close the mouth, cover tightly, the heat is uniform, can be stowed in the gas, made of rice particles fluffy, rice flavor is pure. One pot at a time can make a double layer of rice with different textures, or multiple layers of rice. Various kinds of cakes made of rice flour, such as slice cake, loose cake, hair cake, rice cake, cold noodles, etc., are also the daily staple food of the Koreans. Daily dishes of the Joseon people include "Bajeongnyeon" and "Soyamul" (soybean paste and vegetable soup). Pickled vegetables are indispensable daily dishes.
What are the characteristics of the food culture of the Korean people? There are many traditional flavors of the Korean people, the most famous of which are rice cake, cold noodles and kimchi. The cake is made of steamed glutinous rice rolled into a ball, cut into pieces, sprinkled with soybean flour and added with thin honey and sugar. Cold noodles are made by adding starch and water to buckwheat noodles, mixing them well, boiling them, cooling them with cool water, adding sesame oil, chili peppers, kimchi, soy sauce beef and beef broth, etc., which is cool and refreshing to eat and has a delicious flavor. Kimchi is made by soaking cabbage for a few days, rinsing it, mixing it with chili peppers and other ingredients, and sealing it in a vat. The longer the pickling time, the more delicious the flavor.
Pork cake: one of the favorite traditional foods of the Korean people. The history of the cake is relatively long, as early as in the 18th century, the Korean literature has been recorded, then called the cake as "citing the cake", and said citing the cake has been called one of the traditional food. Nowadays, every family serves rice cakes to their friends and relatives during festivals and celebrations. As the name suggests, the cake is made by beating. Glutinous rice is the main ingredient of the cake. Where glutinous rice is not produced, small yellow rice or millet is used; the sprinkled soybean flour raw materials, in addition to small red beans, you can also use soybeans, mung beans, pine nuts, chestnuts, red dates, sesame seeds and so on. Production, the first sticky rice steamed, placed in the cake groove or on the slate, with a cake mallet to break the rice grains bonded together into a piece. When eating, use a knife dipped in water to cut into small pieces, dipped in the cake surface to eat.
Cold noodles: one of the traditional foods of the Korean people. Korean people not only love to eat cold noodles in the hot summer, even in the winter months, they also like to sit on the bed to eat cold noodles. Especially at noon on the fourth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Korean people have the custom of eating cold noodles with the whole family. According to folklore, if you eat noodles on this day, you will live a long life, so cold noodles are also called "longevity noodles". Cold noodles are the main raw materials are buckwheat noodles, wheat flour and starch, but also available cornmeal, sorghum flour, elm bark noodles and potato starch production. Practice is in the buckwheat noodles with starch, water, and even into the noodles, boiled and cooled with cool water, plus sesame oil, chili, pickles, soy sauce beef and beef broth made of eating cool and refreshing, delicious flavor.
Ear Ming Wine: Drinking "Ear Ming Wine" is a Korean custom. On the morning of the first day of the first month of the fifteenth morning, drink ear Ming wine on an empty stomach, in order to wish the ear, this wine is not special, all in the morning of the first day of the first month of the fifteenth morning drink wine, are called "ear Ming wine".
Three volts and dog meat soup: Three volts is the hottest season of the year. However, the Korean people have the custom of slaughtering dogs and eating hot dog soup on the day of three volts. This sauce soup has a unique flavor, in the three ambient days to eat dog meat sauce soup can be a great tonic. Most Korean people love to eat dog meat. However, during festivals or red and white celebrations, it is absolutely forbidden to eat dog meat. This is a custom, but also a kind of etiquette.
Korean people can not eat pork in the diet? Yes, some Koreans do not eat pork.
The dress, food and house of the Koreans (1) Dress The Koreans like to wear plain white clothes, usually short clothes and long pants. Men's tops are buttonless, with cloth knots plus shoulders, and the bottom pants have a big crotch, and the legs of the pants are tied. Women's short clothes without buttons, to the ribbon for the knot, long skirts divided into wrapped skirt, tube skirt (only before marriage). Elderly women mostly wear white long skirts, middle-aged women mostly wear wrapped skirts, as long as their heels. Young women's skirts are mostly brightly colored satin. In recent times, men wear flat white rubber shoes and straw shoes for labor. Women wear boat-shaped rubber shoes. Now, except for festivals or national ***, the Koreans are basically *** national costumes, and the Han people have little difference. (2) diet Korean people to rice-based, mostly rice, two rice, soup every meal must, especially like to drink soy sauce soup. Spicy cabbage, the general system of cabbage soaked in salt water for a few days, washed, and then smeared with chili peppers, onions, garlic, ginger and other seasonings. Conditions can also add apples, pear slices, etc., and then cellar, half a month later can be eaten. You can also use radish, mustard greens, English cabbage, etc. to pickle in the same way. Cold noodles are made by pressing three parts starch and seven parts noodles. Boiled and cooled, then boiled with beef or chicken soup, and put licorice, pepper, pepper, ginger, monosodium glutamate, sugar and vinegar, etc. made of cold noodle soup, eaten with slices of beef, cucumber, sesame, chili pepper, and other tasty seasonings. Dog meat is one of the meat that the Korean people like to eat, except for weddings, funerals and festivals do not eat dog meat, other seasons can eat dog meat. However, most of them are killed in the ambush days or when the patient recovers in order to make up for the dog. Kill the dog hanging, four hooves bleeding, retreat hair. With its meat, skin and organs to make soup, meat and seasoning cold food, the flavor is delicious. Korean drinking utensils unique style, generally a stove and two pots, the pot state deep bottom wide, especially iron cover, easy to stew rice, but stir-fry inconvenience. Generally a pot of rice, a pot of soup. A pot of rice in the center of the table, a spoon for one person, and cool water. Women used altar jars to hold water (now gone). (3) Houses Most of the houses were built in the Mawei style, and they were built in a convenient place near a water source. The houses were built on wooden frames, with walls of mud plastered with Laha braids and roofs sloped on all sides and covered with straw. Each room has four or five doors (which also serve as windows), and there is a bed in the room, so people take off their shoes and sit cross-legged in the room. In the countryside, a big yellow cow is kept in the east end of the house, and an oxcart and a mortar and pestle for pounding rice are kept in the yard. In recent years, the Korean people have changed, the brick structure of the increasing number of homes, the national style of interior design is decreasing, everything to the modernization of the development.
What are the Korean festivals? What are the Korean festivals? Food culture? The Korean people have always respected etiquette and emphasized on festivals. On New Year's festivals and happy days, the diet is more elaborate, and all dishes and cakes are decorated with shredded chili peppers, sliced eggs, shredded seaweed, shredded green onions, or pine-nut rice and walnut nuts.
Influenced by the Han Chinese people and culture, Korean folk festivals include "New Year's Day" (Spring Festival), "Sangwon" (Lantern Festival), "Sangseo" (March 3 of the lunar calendar), "Cold Snack" (Cold Snack), and "Cold Snack" (Cold Snack). The "Cold Food" (Qingming Festival), "Lantern Festival" (April 8), "Dragon Boat Festival" (May 5), "Liu Tou Day" (June 6), and "Lunar New Year's Day" (June 6), are all celebrated by the Chinese people. " (June 5 on the lunar calendar), "Autumn Sunset" (Mid-Autumn Festival), "Chongjiu" (September 9 on the lunar calendar), and "Entry" "Winter Solstice" and so on. Among them, New Year's Day, the first year, cold food, Dragon Boat Festival and Autumn Festival are the major festivals. In addition to making festive food and drinks, the Koreans also organize various games and sports activities for fun according to the characteristics of the festivals. For example, on New Year's Eve, the Koreans celebrate in a unique way by gathering their friends and relatives, paying tribute to each other, and eating homemade rice cakes, rice wine, and "Deokgu" cake soup. In addition to singing and dancing during the Spring Festival, they also burn fires in the fields to drive away pests, and women engage in activities such as skipping and swinging, etc.; they go to their graves on the Ching Ming Festival to add soil; and they make sacrifices on the Mid-Autumn Festival to show their grief for the deceased.
There are three other family festivals, that is, catching the week, back to the A Festival (60th birthday), back to the wedding festival (60th anniversary of marriage), the baby's birthday to invite guests *** with the celebration of the baby's birthday; the latter two are joyous days, children, friends, relatives and neighbors to the old man blessing birthday wishes. Every time these festivals should be a feast, feast guests. At that time, a big cooked rooster will be placed on the table, and the rooster's mouth will also carry a red pepper. The traditional dishes of the feast are not only fancy, but also beautiful and gorgeous, and a lot of food should be made into the shape of birds and animals. All ceremonial feasts, to congratulate the old man on his 60th birthday "flower armor" seat the most elaborate and grand.
Since ancient times, the Korean people have a tradition of respect for the elderly, the elderly in the Korean people are generally respected and preferential treatment, has a very high family and social status. They even set the 15th of August as the Old Man's Day. In order to express their respect for the elderly. The Korean people have always attached importance to children, every year, "June 1" festival will hold a grand celebration, the family to participate in the celebration. The Korean people usually also pay close attention to the children's training, and do not hesitate to spend a lot of money to hire a tutor to develop children's intelligence, cultivate children's intelligence.
In major festivals, the Korean people often organize a variety of colorful recreational activities. In the splendid cultural heritage of the Korean people, folkloric amusement occupies a unique position. There are as many as 300 kinds of folkloric games, some of which are easy to perform and suitable for both young and old. The representative ones are swinging, skipping, wrestling, tug-of-war and so on.