Chuseok

Chuseok is a major Korean harvest festival held on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Families gather, share seasonal foods, and honor ancestors through rites.

Korean ancestral rites: Ritual practices through which Korean families honor deceased ancestors. Chuseok’s household observances include offerings and bows to ancestors.
Songpyeon: Half-moon-shaped Korean rice cakes traditionally made for Chuseok. Families often prepare these rice cakes together before the holiday.
Gabae: An ancient Korean festival associated with weaving, competition, and the eighth lunar month. A record in the Samguk Sagi links this observance to Chuseok’s early history.
Seollal: The Korean Lunar New Year, celebrated on the first day of the lunar year. Both holidays prompt family reunions and ancestral rites, but occur at different points in the year.
Korean family: A social institution shaped by kinship, shared obligations, and changing household forms in Korea. The festival is a major occasion for relatives to reunite across generations.
Charye: A Korean ancestral rite in which descendants set food offerings and bow before an ancestral table. Many families perform this rite on Chuseok morning.
Samguk Sagi: A history of the Three Kingdoms of Korea compiled in the twelfth century. It preserves an account of Gabae, an early observance connected with Chuseok.
Mid-Autumn Festival: An East Asian harvest festival held on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. It shares Chuseok’s lunar date and harvest associations but has distinct regional customs.
Korean holidays: Public and traditional observances marked in South Korea’s annual calendar. Chuseok is one of the country’s principal traditional holidays.
Seongmyo: A Korean practice of visiting and tending family graves. Families may visit ancestral graves during the Chuseok holiday period.

Linked from 6 pages