PBS Online: Hidden Korea/Ch'usok
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Description: Offers concise explanation of the holiday, along with a look at Korean burial traditions and the ways in which contemporary families honor their ancestors.
PBS Online: Hidden Korea/Ch'usok The Kim Family bowing at their ancestor's burial mound Until recent times, Koreans used a different calendar to calculate the year and dates for holidays. This was the old Chinese lunar calendar in which months began with each new moon. Because lunar calendars rarely coincide with modern solar calendars Asia festivals such as Lunar New Year hardly ever fall on January 1. Perhaps the greatest Korean holiday is Ch'usok, or Harvest Moon Festival, which is held on the 15th day of the Eighth Moon according to the lunar calendar. That is usually in September or October and is marked by the rising of a full "Harvest Moon." Ch'usok is usually described as a kind of Thanksgiving for a good harvest, but it is really an ancient holiday dedicated to the ancestors. Families gather from all over the country and from overseas for the great holiday. Visitors to Korea are always warned to stay where they are at Ch'usok time because almost everyone is on the road going back their ancestral homes: journeys that by car would normally take two hours might take fifteen!
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| Date | Creation Date: 19-Apr-1995 04:00:00 UTC Expiry Date: 20-Apr-2021 04:00:00 UTC |