September 14, 2008

Chuseok Holiday

Sekolah akan bercuti pada 15 & 16 September 2008 sebab perayaan Chuseok. Public holiday kat Korea ni selama tiga hari bermula 13 sampai 15 September, tapi sekolah ambik extra days....

Kat Korea kalau cuti perayaan macam ni jalan2 mesti jem giler.... sebab semua orang akan balik ke kampung masing2 untuk menziarah keluarga.... sama macam Malaysia juga, kalau ada cuti panjang kan selalu hiway jam...

Apa itu Chuseok....?

Chuseok, also known as Hangawee, falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month and is one of the four main festive holidays of Korea. In ancient society, people used to worship and hold festivals under the full moon. It is said that Chuseok is derived from the full moon, which was on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month.
Customs
Bulcho and Sungmyo
Bulcho is the tradition of cutting the weeds around one's ancestral graves during Chuseok. Paying a visit to one's ancestral graves is considered as a duty towards one's ancestors.

Chare (Memorial rites)
During the morning of Chuseok, families gather around the head family house where the household shrines are placed to pay respects to their ancestors. Their memorial rites are offered up to their great-great grandfather. The only thing different from the memorial rites held during new years and that held in Chuseok, is that during Chuseok people eat rice instead of rice cake soup.

G
anggangsulle
Ganggangsulle is a traditional circle dance, where women gather at a specified place and go around in circles chanting "Gan
g-gang-sul-le." If a woman with a strong voice stands in the middle chanting gang-gang-sul-le, the rest of the people in the circle follow.




Gama
Fight

This game is played by two teams, each with a four wheeled sedan chair, that try to either snatch or destroy each others' sedan chairs. Since long ago, winners of this game were believed to easily pass the civil service examination and are said to have celebrated their victory by going around the town singing.

Gama Fight Gama Fight Gama Fight

Dietary Customs
Songpyeon Chuseok is a period where wheat and fruits thrive. Yet during Chuseok, people mainly eat a rice cake called Songpyeon. Songpyeon consists of beans, adzuki, chestnuts, jujube and other grains, all picked from new crops.

Puasa

Hari ni dah 14 hb Ramadhan, maknanya dah 14 hari juga kita semua berpuasa. Puasa di sini sama ajer, cuma di Seoul ni tak der lah Pasar Ramadhan... jadi tiap hari ada ajer kuih yang perlu dibuat untuk juadah berbuka puasa.

Macam2 jenis kuih telah dibuat untuk berbuka puasa... bemula dengan chemeq, buah melaka, karipap, keria dan cucuq udang kuah kacang.... nasib baik ada juga tepung pulut di sini walau harganya mahal, tapi sekurang2nya bolehlah dibuat kuih kegemaran semua. Kelapa pakai kelapa parut ajer... sedap juga.....

Minggu lepas semua warga Embassy berbuka puasa ramai2 di Embassy... macam2 jenis kuih yang ada, pot luck lah katakan....meriah jugak. Lepas sembahyang Tarawih ramai2, budak2 sibuk main bunga api dan mercun... kat sini tak der masalah nak main mercun, cuma kadang2 Ajushi Guard tu bising takut jiran bising....

Sahur di sini lebih awal berbanding di Malaysia, bangun untuk makan pukul 4 pagi, maknanya untuk masak awal lagi lah...pukul 4.30 dah start puasa. Berbuka pulak pukul 7 petang masa awal2 puasa tu, tapi sekarang ni dah jadi pukul 6.45 pm dan sahur habis pukul 4.45am....

Raya di sini... tak tau lagi camana keadaannya, tapi rasanya sama ajer kot..... ketupat...?entahlah boleh buat atau tidak...tak aper lah.... janji raya....tapi mungkin masa raya nanti dah sejuk lagi dari sekarang sebab dah musim luruh....

Sekolah masa puasa sama ajer, cuma boleh dapat excuse tidak P.E sebab puasa, cikgu2 pun faham pasal Ramadhan... Along kelas dia 100% puasa penuh, pasal dia sorang ajer Muslim at kelas dia... he he he

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