추석 잘 보내세요!Have a happy Chuseok!Chuseok is a harvest and family holiday similar to Thanksgiving celeb

추석 잘 보내세요!Have a happy Chuseok!Chuseok is a harvest and family holiday similar to Thanksgiving celebrated by both Koreas, although until recently North Koreans could not celebrate it because, as a traditional holiday, it was regarded as a vestige of a feudal system.Now we celebrate in many of the same ways as South Koreans, but with some differences.Honoring ones’ ancestors is an integral part of Chuseok that people on both sides of the border engage in. Charye is the custom of preparing an offering of food as part of an ancestral memorial rite. In South Korea, the tables can be quite extravagant. The placement of the food also follows special rules, such as fruits and vegetables being placed in the south, meats in the west, soup and rice in the north, and rice cakes and drinks in the east.In the North, the table is usually a more modest affair. Unlike in the South, fresh fruit and meat are harder to come by, so they are usually prepared in advance and are often dried. For some North Koreans, this is the only time of year these foods will be available to them, so the holiday is highly anticipated. Also unlike the South, the placement of food on the table doesn’t matter as much–we just place foods our ancestors were fond of or that we enjoy ourselves.I cannot quite remember what foods Gojoseon liked…I hope she would have liked tangerines as I do.—–Previous Chuseok posts: 2017, 2020Note: The yellow flowers are rhododendrons, which are known to grow on Mt. Paektu (where I hc Gojoseon was buried). -- source link

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