Festival
|
Significance
|
Events
|
Date (
lunar calendar
)
|
Food
|
Seollal
|
Lunar New Year
|
Sebae
(New Year's greetings),
Charye
(ancestral ceremony),
Yunnori
(traditional game)
|
1st day of first month
|
Tteokguk
(rice cake soup),
Yakgwa
(honey cakes)
|
Daeboreum
|
First
full moon
|
Geuybulnori
(rice field burning),
Daljip Taeugi
(bonfire),
Aengmagi Taeugi
(talisman burning)
|
15th day of first month
|
Ogokbap
(five-grain rice),
yaksik
(glutinous rice),
bureom
(nuts),
Gwibalgisul
(alcoholic beverage)
|
Meoseumnal
|
Festival for servants
|
Singing, Dancing, Coming-of-age ceremony
|
1st day of second month
|
Songpyeon
(Traditional rice cake made with the grains)
|
Yeongdeungje
|
Celebrating the god of wind
|
Jesa
(Traditional ritual to appease the god of wind)
|
First day of second month
|
Food for
jesa
|
Samjinnal
|
Celebrating the coming of spring
|
Archery,
Cockfighting
, Fortune telling
|
3rd day of third month
|
Hwajeon
(rice pancakes),
Dugyeonju
(azalea wine)
|
Hansik
|
Start of farming season
|
Visit to ancestral grave for offering rite, and cleaning and maintenance.
|
105 days after
Dongji
(
Winter solstice
)
|
Cold food only:
ssuktteok
(
mugwort
rice cake),
ssukdanja
(mugwort dumplings),
ssuktang
(mugwort soup)
|
Chopail
|
Buddha's birthday
|
Lantern festival, hanging lanterns up and visiting the temple
|
8th day of fourth month
|
Different types of
tteok
, dumplings, fish dishes
|
Dano
|
Celebration of spring and farming
|
Washing hair with
changpo
,
ssireum
(wrestling), swing, giving fans as gifts
|
5th day of fifth month
|
Variety of
tteok
, herb rice cakes
|
Yudu
|
Water greeting
|
Bathing and washing hair to get rid of bad luck (if any)
|
15th day of sixth month
|
Noodles
|
Sambok
[
ko
]
|
Hottest day of the summer
|
Hot dishes. Cold baths are believed to make people weak.
|
Between sixth and seventh month
|
Samgyetang
(Chicken soup)
|
Chilseok
|
Meeting day of Gyeonwu and Jiknyeo in Korean folk tale
|
Fabric weaving
|
7th day of seventh month
|
Miljeonbyeon
(Wheat pancake),
Milguksu
(Wheat noodles)
|
Baekjung
|
Time with hundred of fruits' and vegetables' seeds
|
Resting, performing rituals
|
15th day of seventh month
|
Food made of potato, flour, and wheat along with a variety of wild vegetables
|
Chuseok
|
Harvest festival
|
Charye
,
ssireum
, visiting ancestor graves
|
15th day of eighth month
|
Songpyeon
,
torantang
(taro soup)
|
Jungu
|
Double Ninth Festival
|
Danpung-nori
(Viewing the changing color of maples during autumn)
|
9th day of ninth month
|
Gukhwajeon
(Chrysanthemum pancake),
eoran
(Roe),
yuja tea
|
Sangdalgosa
|
Ritual performed to the House gods
|
Performing a ritual to the house gods, coiling a golden rope around the House, spreading a layer of red clay on the floor
|
Tenth month
|
Various
tteok
|
Sondolpoong
|
Ritual performed to appease the wind
|
Usually boatmen and fishermen perform
jesa
for Sondol
|
20th day of tenth month
|
Regular food for
jesa
|
Dongji
|
Winter Solstice
|
Rites to dispel bad spirits
|
11th month
|
Patjuk
(red bean soup)
|
Seotdal Geumeum
|
New Year's Eve
|
Cleaning up the house, Preparing for
Seollal
|
Last day of the year
|
Food for the next day, Seollal
|