This Friday is the Lantern Festival. It is customary in Taiwan to eat glutinous rice balls and pray for perfection on the Lantern Festival. Let's take a look at 4 representative foods that Koreans eat during the Lantern Festival.
The word "age" can also be replaced by "year, month, season". The seasonal diet refers to a farming society like Korea. Based on the lunar calendar, when a certain month or festival comes, a traditional diet is prepared to suit the occasion. Recently, it is also called "festival cuisine" or "seasonal cuisine". Since it is cooked according to the farming activities and climate of each period, it can reflect the living conditions of the ancestors more closely than other foods.
When the bright and bright moon rises, the family will sit together to eat Lantern Festival dishes, and this custom continues to this day. The 15th day of the first lunar month is generally called "Shangyuan", which is a more important day than "Zhongyuan (July 15)" or "Xiayuan (October 15)". Let's take a look at the foods that Koreans must eat during the Lantern Festival.
On the day before the Lantern Festival or on the morning of the Lantern Festival, people will make rice with five grains, and then use aged wild vegetables and other vegetables to make rice and eat it. Aged wild vegetables include all kinds of vegetables harvested by farmers a year ago, including pumpkin, radish leaves, sweet potato leaves and stems, sun-dried water chestnuts and bracken, etc. These vegetables are boiled in hot water, and then mixed with various seasonings. Mix well and eat together.
The Lantern Festival, when the cold has not yet receded, is the time to replenish heat, and our ancestors relied on the sun for a whole winter.Wild vegetables to add calories. .
The five-grain rice eaten with these vegetables includes glutinous rice, sorghum rice, red beans, yellow rice, and beans, etc. By eating a variety of grains, it expresses the prayer that all grains will thrive in the coming year. In the past, when the elders were cooking rice with five grains,
Because the children have not had a good meal for a long time, the mothers hope that this year will be a good year for the harvest of food, so that everyone can fill their stomachs, so each child's bowl is filled with Had a hot five-grain rice. Then.
The first documentary record about Wugufan was in "Dongguo Suiji", which appeared under the name of "Five Grain Mixed Rice". In the book it is written: "Nowadays, the custom has been moved to Shangyuan, and the restraint is also the purpose of Beifeng to control the winter. It is also a relic of the five grains and miscellaneous meals, and the same is true of the Lingnan customs. It’s ancient.” In addition, it is recorded that the five-grain rice was distributed to the malnourished and thin children, thus saving the lives of those children.
Another name for five-grain rice is "Hundred-Family Rice", which means that every family and neighbors should share the five-grain rice with each other. If you take a fence or a bamboo basket to ask for glutinous rice from various houses, and then sit on a tsui (pronounced ㄉㄨㄟˋ, utensils for pounding rice), you will not have ringworm on your face.
There is also a saying that if you eat red food on the 15th day of the first lunar month, you won't be bitten by insects, and you won't get rashes in summer. So on the night of the 14th of the first lunar month, the children will quietly go to the neighborhoodPeople go to beg for a spoonful of rice in the kitchen, but the masters know it but they just turn a blind eye.
Because they believe that they must eat five-grain rice from more than 3 households with different surnames, and then they will have good luck in that year. Many people believe that eating five-grain rice will help more people in the family to help with farming, and will have a good harvest. year. In the Joseon Dynasty, there was a drought year after year, and starvation and freezing can be said to be commonplace, so I am here.
Eight Treasures Rice, also known as "Medicine Food", is a dish made of glutinous rice with a lot of honey, sesame oil, chestnuts, jujubes, and pine nuts and other precious ingredients. Therefore, ordinary poor people don't even dream at all. Dare to hope.
However, according to another view, it is said that the common people are very envious of the Eight Treasures Rice of the two noble families, so they began to imitate its practice, and the dishes produced in this way are called medicinal food.
On the other hand, it is said that it is best to eat five-grain rice 9 times a day, which means that you eat more and work harder, and you will work diligently for a whole year in the new year. Rice with five grains will also have a deeper meaning depending on the region.
People in Jeollanam-do refer to rice with five grains as "three surnames rice" or "sweet rice", and some people use rice with five grains to predict the crop yield of the year. In addition, depending on the region, some places will place a small amount of five-grain rice or glutinous rice in various corners of the home, such as the sauce jar table or in front of the door, so as to pray to the gods at home for a prosperous harvest in the new year and a family-friendly health flatinstall.
Except for rice with five grains.
About the custom of chewing nuts, the "Kyoto Magazine" wrote: "Chew chestnuts or radishes in the morning, wishing that there will be no peace in the twelve months of the year, which is called chewing boils." In the middle, it is recorded: "Drinking a cup in the morning is called Minger wine, and chewing chestnuts is called bite sore fruit."
"Dongguo Suiji" explains the origin of eating nuts during the Lantern Festival, the related name of the custom of chewing nuts, and the local customs of Uiju. The book mentions: "(On the day of the Lantern Festival) early morning Chewing raw chestnuts, walnuts, ginkgo biloba, cypress seeds, and mangosteen roots, and wishing to say: "One year in the twelve months of the year, there will be no incidents and no carbuncles and boils." This is called chewing boils. When young men and women chew caramel in the morning, it is called teeth comparison.” The so-called teeth comparison here is literally interpreted as “the battle of teeth”, which means to compare and see who has stronger teeth. In addition, there is also the custom of eating nuts during the Lantern Festival in the royal court.
The food eaten during the Lantern Festival is more than that, such as Erming wine, according to the records of "Dongguo Suiji", so both men, women and children will drink a glass of Erming wine.
Another saying comes from the Daoxue of Sexual Science. In this complicated world, one must have the will to listen to the right way. Therefore, the theory of "treatment of deafness" appeared. After it was passed down among the people, it finally became a Erming wine. When drinking erming wine, the elders will say such auspicious words: "Make your ears smarter and your eyes brighter." Children also drink it,But just a symbolic dab of wine on your lips counts as drinking.
Erming wine is also poured down chimneys in North Jeolla Province because they believe that even if an abscess develops, they want to make it disappear as quickly as the smoke from the chimney. In the Pyeongchang area of Gangwon-do, they especially like to go to other people's homes to ask for Erming wine to drink, because the local people believe that they can listen to all directions and hear the affairs of other people's homes clearly.
In addition, when drinking sake, generally, the wine is heated before drinking, but the ear.
◎ This article is excerpted from / "Unofficial History of Korea in Diet" by Song Yongxin ◎ Image source/Provided by Dazhi Image/shutterstock
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