Chuseok

__Chu-Seok __ __ By Sooah Park __

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What is your important festival from your country? What day gives you happiness? For Korea, Chuseok is one of the significant day and well known day for Koreans. It’s really important because of the way the Koreans celebrate the day and treat the ancestors well. They celebrate by doing Korean games/sports/eating foods. There are lots of foods made in this day, and the most food that has been eaten is called SongPyeon, which is made out of **nutritious foods**.

=**__ Introduction __**=

Throughout history people has gave **thanks** for the year’s wonderful harvest with lot with celebrations and joyful festivals. As done by the a lot of countries like ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Chinese, and Romans, South Koreans also have been celebrating and observing the harvest festival of Chuseok,(thanks giving day in Korea.) which falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. This is one of the most important holidays in Korea.

=**__ Importance __**= As Koreans start to serve them by having lots of foods on the special table, they stay with silence because they think that the ancestors are eating the foods that they’ve prepared for them. Serving the ancestor well is really important in Korea. Also, they have to make the food working as hard as they can.

=**__ Celebration __**= You usually celebrate this day by doing **traditional Korean** sports/games like ssireum (it’s like wrestling but not a lot of violence.); gang gang sulle, a circle dance under the bright moon, which is one of the most popular forms of Chuseok folk entertainment; tug of war, and also by eating a rice cake which is steamed upon pine. Not all of the families eat Song-pyeon; they eat ttuk guk or ttuk mandu guk which is for a day called Sul-nal, but some do eat them. Most of them go to the ancestor’s grave and put food in front like the picture, and pray. = = = = = = = = = = =**__ Food Types __**=

Songpyeon is one of the representative snacks of Chuseok. This rice cake is prepared with rice that is kneaded into the perfect size, and then filled with **sesame seeds**, **beans**, **red beans**, **chestnuts**, and a host of other **nutritious foods**. Another major element of Chuseok is the alcoholic beverages. This traditional Chuseok drink is made of newly harvested rice and is also as “The Hundred Year” Drink. Adults say that if you drink the **alcoholic beverage** which the ancestors have drank; there will be nothing you’ll be scared of.

=**__ Conclusion __**=

Basically, Chu-Seok is a day for all Koreans to thank each other. Although this day isn’t really well known for everyone through out the world, the Koreans take pleasure in this day and celebrate with joy. If //you// are one of the Koreans right now, you would be waiting for this day all day, all night.



media type="youtube" key="rz7sGaUhDuQ" height="344" width="425" align="left" -One of the Korean Traditional dance:P