Chuseok

About Chuseok

Chuseok, also called Hangawi, is held on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month and is Korea's great harvest thanksgiving. For three days families return to their ancestral hometown, causing the country's biggest travel rush. They hold charye, a memorial rite using newly harvested rice and fruit, and visit graves to clear the weeds in seongmyo. The best-known food is songpyeon, a half-moon rice cake steamed over pine needles, and filled with sesame, chestnut or bean. Families make them together, and a belief says that a girl who shapes beautiful songpyeon will have a beautiful child. In the evening, people watch the moon, wear hanbok, play folk games such as ssireum wrestling and ganggangsullae, a circle dance by women.

Chuseok dates: 2026, 2027, 2028

What is eaten

• songpyeon
• japchae
• taro soup
• sikhye

Traditions of Chuseok

GanggangsullaeThe circle dance of women under the moon.

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