It’s all about peace, luck, and prosperity!Įven though we all follow the usual calendar which goes from January to December, still every country has a special calendar for itself.Īnd we celebrate a few important festivals or holidays according to those calendars. Seollal is one such holiday spread across East Asia. The festival falls as the very first holiday on the Lunar Calendar which East Asia follows.īut, Korea is not the only country that celebrates it, there are more which you will get to know inside. It falls on the first day of the Lunar calendar. In the year 2022, it will fall from December 31 to January 3rd. Just like Chuseok, Seollal also has 3 days holiday. A day before the actual day, the very day, and the next after it. Remember Chuseok and traffic jams? Well, Seollal is no different, since the majority of families visit their hometowns. The closest festival of Chuseok to the Americanized version will be Thanksgiving. The holiday has been viewed as the Thanksgiving the world celebrates. While Seolnal or Seollal, is the Korean new year’s day. There is not only one specific food that Koreans eat on that day, but a couple of dishes are fixed to be made in the holiday.įor Chuseok, it’s Seongpyeon, a sweet dish filled with red beans, ground rice, sesame seeds, chestnuts, and sugar. Whereas Tteokguk, rice cake soup for Seolnal along with banchan. Yes, it is said that this tradition has been derived from China. It originated from China and people do respect that. However, over the years, the festival has changed so many traditions, especially in terms of food. Now, it has been celebrated as a new year overall Asia referring it as “Lunar New Year”. “Lunar New Year is the more inclusive and accurate term as it applies to the holiday worldwide ” says Nancy Yao Maasbach. Not only China or Korea, but Vietnam, Mongolia, and many other Asian countries also celebrate it. Spring Festival or Chūnjié is the name Chinese people know Lunar New Year of. If you want to know who belongs to this very successful animal, you only have to identify if your year of birth is 1902, 1914, 1926. The year 2022 corresponds to the Year of the Water-Tiger. The Korean lunar new year generally corresponds to the second new moon of the. While it is Tết in Vietnam and Tsagaan Sar in Mongolia. This 2022, the lunar New Year will be on February 1. You must have heard “I was born in the year of rabbit” or “Year of dog or pig”, etc. in your favorite K-pop idols’ interview.Įven Jackson Wang said in one of his American interviews that he was “born in the year of the dog. Every Lunar year is assigned and related to every animal in the Lunar Calendar. The relation exceeds the point of having similar characteristics. Now you see what are we going to talk about? 2021! And this keeps rotating, mainly 12 years, 12 animals is the formula. No matter what year you were born in, no matter what year of animal it was - you will still find success this year if you genuinely work hard.
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