Friday, March 22, 2013

Dragon old snake dance festival in Seoul feel another new year

The Spring Festival, the most traditional, as the Chinese nation most grand holiday, inheritance has been 4000 years of history.

In my memory, every lunar "small", the home began to get busy preparing special purchases for the Spring Festival, clean the house, wash bath, system...... All of these activities, there is a common theme, that is "new year"! Although busy tired, but because the full of the lost years of respect and the hope of a better future, we always happiness within, with a grand ceremony and enthusiasm to greet the arrival of the new year.

The Spring Festival, is not only an important festival, the Chinese Spring Festival in South Korea, is also the most important festival of the year. South Korea will January 1st the Lunar New Year is also known as "new" or "the beginning of the year", means the first day of the new year. For the New Year wishes, South Korea also has a traditional part of the celebration, spring festival day, people put on new clothes, kids wear colorful clothes, attended the morning ceremony of worship. Ancestor worship, the younger generation to the family elders kowtow ceremony, also is the Korean in the "old worship", accept the old elders to younger people who worship the gift money, family shared ancestor worship food, known as "Yin Fu", meaning to undertake ancestral blessing meaning.

Recently, with the accelerated pace of life, the Spring Festival holiday has been shortened; with the improvement of people's living standard, steamed New Year cake, PigHead meat and other traditional diet gradually fade out of the table; as people's spiritual pursuit of improving, endure years staying-up, traditional customs are gradually being replaced by the new concept of celebration, more and more people in the Spring Festival, and his family out of the house, have the Spring Festival travel. If this year, your destination for Seoul, then, let "with you in Seoul" to taste a rich and colorful Korean "taste", for your snake spring to a good start!

The South Gate of the marketThe South Gate of the market

Years ago: buy special purchases for the Spring Festival happy

Modern people are accustomed to "buy clothes, looking for shopping malls, buy food, go to the supermarket" mode of life, but the supermarket is good, but there is less human. If you want to feel the Korean simple local customs and practices, the taste of Korean traditional folk food, it must be to the traditional market and walk! Now, just follow us into the traditional Korean market, appreciate the years ago special purchases for the Spring Festival happy!

The South Gate of the market

Speaking of Seoul special purchases for the Spring Festival market, want to know where is the beautiful dress dress, ginseng products, snack catch all in one draft place? The answer is Seoul largest integrated, the best traditional market -- the South Gate of the market!

Beside the south gate is located in "the market trend coordinate", the main variety of daily necessities of life. Here is not only clothing street, all handmade wholesale jewelry street, there are a wide variety of camera street, different style of glasses street, low commodity prices, which can be wholesale, and retail. From noon to 11 pm to 3 am, wholesalers, shoppers crowded around, let the Namdaemun market full of vitality! Is not only a record of Korean life bit by bit, has become a beautiful scenery line of the world tourism!

Tip:12 month 31 days, January 1st and weekly rest on Sunday.

Address: Seoul City District, Nanchang 49 hole

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Traffic: 4 line hoehyeon Station Exit 5

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