The origin of the Korean nationality

Ethnic Korean nationality is an important nation in east Asia, north Korea is also called the han nationality, are mainly distributed in the north and South Korea, is the main part of the north and South Korea national, the other major living in northeastern China and the Russian far east and other former Soviet republics, the United States, Japan and other parts of the world.

China is one of China's 56 ethnic groups.Within the territory of China, Korean, Korean Chinese) has more than 180 north koreans living in northeastern China, especially in heilongjiang, jilin, liaoning.

Until the 1990 s most of the Korean nationality of China are mainly distributed in heilongjiang, jilin, liaoning provinces.Along with the reform and opening up more than 8 into Korean to coastal cities and countries such as Japan and South Korea workers.Though still retained in the three northeast provinces account, but today thirty percent of the north Korean people scattered in Beijing, Shanghai, hangzhou, guangzhou, chengdu, jinan, xi 'an, wuhan and other large and medium-sized cities on the mainland.Fifty percent of Korean nationality living in South Korea.Jilin yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture of Korean residents of Korean language and its character (almost all ethnic koreans will use the bilingual).General Korean and Chinese bilingual mixed region of Korean nationality.

Korean language for Korean (Chinese koreans use standard Korean of the Korean peninsula, accent slightly on the peninsula is located in the north of the democratic People's Republic of Korea.)And the altai language family.Korean phonological writing type, there are 40 letters, phonemes is letters.When spelling, the same syllable superposition of phonemes into a square blocks of text.

Until the 1990 s Korean mainly engaged in agriculture, is famous for its good at planting rice in north cold, white rice, oil, rich nutrition, yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture is admired as "the land of the north rice".Yanbian area is one of the main flue-cured tobacco production base in China.The yanbian yellow cattle is one of the five varieties on the local yellow cattle in China.A specialty of changbai mountain forest ginseng, mink, deer antler, known as "northeast sambo".Now most of the Korean nationality is engaged in the manufacturing.

Korean is one of the typical ethnic minorities in China, the people's bank of China issued since April 27, 1987, in the fourth set of RMB, notes two horn in the front side of each medallion is tujia and Korean.

The Korean traditional festival

1. The north koreansThe Spring Festival：

Good at Korean people's life rich and colorful holiday.New Year's eve night shou sui, ancient ogre Ye jean and long melody, bring people into a new realm., during the festival, men, women, and children likes singing and dancing, and press the springboard, tug-of-war, such as race, noisy, people could have lined up to watch.The fifteenth day of the night, have a traditional celebration rally, a few old man boarded wooden "full moon", to see the moon for the first, means his grandchildren healthy and everything goes well.Then, everyone around the lighted "full moon floor," with the long drum, long, suona music singing and dancing until the ball.

2. The Lantern Festival:

At the age of the Korean traditional festival.The fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, the feast day, this day, the Korean to ancestral graves to send light, then ene "belong to" light inside the hall, in the sky lanterns, gates along the hanging wall lamp, but also to put a light boat in the river.The day also want to take medicine meal, corn meal, drink hearing ears.As the basic raw material medicine meal with polished glutinous rice, honey.Mixing jujube, chestnut, pine nuts and boil.Medicine rice for raw materials is more expensive, is not easy to raise, general with rice, millet, rhubarb rice, glutinous rice, rice bean do five "five" rice instead.In hope that the grain harvest.In the evening, everybodyThe fireTorch dongshan on high to meet full moon, who was happy, who can see the rising moon, meet after month, men, women and children on the bridge in the moonlight.On the bridge, also called stomp bridge.The language of "bridge" and "legs" two word homophones, meaning with bridge legs.Step bridge, each to several times to dozens times back and forth on the bridge, a total number must be equal with their own age, blessing to rid.

3.babyBirthday day:

The baby's birthday.In the Korean life yili, babies a year on the anniversary of the most valued.Baby one one full year of life memorial day celebration is also very grand.Upon the arrival of the baby's mother took the baby birthday myself playing dress-up to look and then give the child put on a set of elaborate costumes, and then carried the baby to have prepared birthday table, let baby "look" for his "into" decoration.Table will put some DaGao, candy, food, pens, books, small gun and so on things with a symbolic meaning.After the guests arrived, the baby's mother is called the child from the table in a variety of things take their own favorite thing in the world.When the child stretched out his hand to take something from the table, the guests with exultation, said some make ZhuXing.This process is known as the baby birthday seats table "ceremony".In some places there is the old man to the child the neck on a mass of the custom of the white line, to show for their kids to do a white like white thread, could longer prolong life like a long line.

4.Wash your hairSection:

The lunar June 15th is the Korean shampoo.This day is regarded as auspicious day.Early in the morning, men, women and children are to the river shampoo, with east stream legend shampoo is very lucky.In the evening, people also held at home shampoo feast, sing shampoo song, and then the whole family, old and young happily sit together, eat a sumptuous dinner.

Section back to the wedding: in the Korean family festival, is the most solemn "back to the wedding day", also called "wedding day", namelyTo get marriedThe 60th anniversary of the day.Held back the wedding day must have the following three conditions: first, the old couple are alive;2 it is biological children are alive;Three grandchildren without dying.If biological children or grandchildren of death, will not be held back to the wedding day.Who can hold back the wedding day, therefore, is a kind of great glory, friends and relatives will come to congratulate, a pair of old man put on a wedding dress as a young, help each other to come to the table, everyone cups blessing, more grand than young people's wedding.

5. Children:

Marked internationalChildren's dayIn yanbian has evolved into a new national holiday.In yanbian, people use "June 1 children's day" activities as a major popular. activity."Children" on this day, often in town, people wear the flock to the park to fete activity in their holiday best.

In addition to the traditional festival, children's age, marriage and the old man his 60th birthday, a great feast to entertain guests.Traditional banquet menu items, not only allows, beautiful modelling is luxuriant, a lot of food to make birds and animals.All banquet etiquette to congratulate the old man his 60th birthday "16" seat the most exquisite and grand.

6. One thousand needle

One thousand "needle" refers to the people hand sewing a has the figure of cloth.When young conscripts, inclined on his shoulders as a symbol of the enemy.This custom is related to an ancient legend.It is said that long ago, there was a rich village, people live a happy life freely.One day to a large force of evil, destroyed the villagers.With its strong man in village, because no power, has been eaten by it.Have a young determined to get rid of the evil, to find a way around.There are 1000 daughter-in-law (natural can't use the widow) to sew, the ribbon had 1000 people's wisdom and strength, can defeat the monster.Young people in accordance with the wise words done, made the "needle" one thousand people, the body up and evil battle, really defeated the evil.So one thousand "needle" became a symbol of victory safeguard, passed down from generation to generation, who has enlisted in the army, his family moved with cloth belt ask for this one thousand stitches, in an effort to geely.

Modern in the wave of the anti-japanese national salvation, and development.The Japanese aggressors invaded northeast China in the 1930 s, many live in yanbian Korean patriotic women, regardless of whether family, they were holding cloth belt, at the station, wharf, and even a lane sewing needle "one thousand people" with each other.Sewing also said some of the Japanese aggressors curse and blessing to the anti-japanese fighters.

7. Burning Lantern Festival:

Use oak wood burning charcoal, pressed into powder, mix the salty, with a paper into a sausage shape, outside wrapped in thin straw rope.At night, tied to a long pole on the light, will be split in the crash, emit bright sparks.With chuseok, weighs five men wrestling tournament, the women on the springboard, swing.

8.The Dragon Boat Festival

Lunar may fifth day for the Dragon Boat Festival, is a traditional festival of the Korean folk sports activities in the most busy holiday.In the past, every Dragon Boat Festival, the Korean enclaves, the towns and villages to carry out a variety of folk sports activities generally, there are mainly swing, springboard, wrestling, etc., one of the most famous is the Dragon Boat Festival swing.

9. Chuseok

Lunar August 15 called chuseok, also calledThe Mid-Autumn festival.Early rice can launch new meters, all kinds of fruit are ripe, the chuseok this day, people take the made of new rice food and fresh fruit, to their owngravesGo to weeding and sacrifice.A traditional food of chuseok is muffin.This day, the Korean CunTun widespread slaughter cattle, and internal organs cut the meat into small pieces, into a lot of lots, wear to families in the thorns.Chuseok also held a variety of sports, such as wrestling, swing, springboard, some CunTun still held a bullfight.

The Korean customs and taboos

Korean production and life taboo Korean unique customs and habits of the full performance.There have been sharing of Korean nationality's marriage customs with this marriage, cross-cousin, maternal cousin relatives don't marriage, namely all blood relatives, whether distant relative or close relatives, as long as the reference, shall marry.

Also there are many taboos in Korean's funeral.Funeral taboo "look that two-day funeral means to death two people, so the funeral will be on in a single day.

Korean womenpregnancyThere are many taboos, such as can't eat ducks, rabbits, dogs and pork.It is said thatA pregnant womanOf children born to eat the duck meat, hands and feet, President of the web;Eat rabbit meat, the child will grow red eyes.Eat dog meat, the child will die before;Eat pork, roughness of the skin of the child.Pregnant women can't go over walls, timid around strangers children will misconduct.Can't across the bridle, across from the bridle, paps 12 months.Can't take a broom, cannot move the content such as ceramic cylinder steamer, tile, because these things are elves.Also can't see somebody else's mourning, won't be able to see the family move, fire, etc.People gave birth to a baby on the door hung a careless rope as the rope, not allowed to enter.

Korean very pay attention to etiquette, manners.Korean courtesy ethics, with respect for the elderly to the guest, show filial obedience parents, respect teachers, mutual comity, as the main content, constraint in word and deed of a person, every move.Performance in speaking words without a heart, to walk there,Have a mealHave a meal, guests are three meals, first to old people and their elders shengfan serving, and to the elderly and guests a single table, wife, or children hands respectfully before put the food to the old man, such as the elderly, elders for key after the whole family to dinner.If my dinner spoon in a soup bowl, put the keys on the table says it has finished.The younger generation is not in front of eldersdrinking, smoking, is unable to avoid, the young man back seats and drink, in order to show respect.