How to prepare the table for the New Year’s Day
January 22nd (Sun) is the first day of the first lunar month, which is Korea’s unique holiday, ‘New Year’.
‘Seol’ is the beginning of the year, the beginning of the year, the first day of the year, the beginning of the year, the year of the king, the year of the year, the year of the year. (年始), years (年首) are also expressed, and various records remain.
According to records, the word ‘Seol’ was already widely used in the Shilla Dynasty, and it has been handed down as one of the 9 major holidays in the Goryeo Dynasty and as one of the 4 major holidays in the Joseon Dynasty. The seasonal customs of New Year’s Day include chaeyeon, three times, New Year’s Day, blessings, memorial services, New Year’s paintings, hanging lucky charms, chasing luminous ears, cheongcham, playing yut, neolttwigi, and burning hair.
There are many opinions about the origin of the word seol.
It means to refrain from, and there is a view that it originated from the wish to live without any harm for a year on the first day of the new year. There is a view that it originated in
On Lunar New Year’s Day and Chuseok, Korean traditional holidays, ancestral rites are held and ancestral rites are held for ancestors.
Learn about the order of the holidays, the order and date of the ancestral rites essential for the ancestral rites, how to set the ancestral table and the location of the ancestral table, how to prepare the food for the ancestral rite, how to use fat and how to bow.
ancestral rites
There were many types of ancestral rites as a traditional ceremony to honor the deceased ancestors, but recently, ancestral rites on the anniversary of the death of ancestors and ancestral rites on holidays are mainly held.
In Lunar New Year, a unique holiday, ancestral rites are held and ancestral rites are held for ancestors. I studied the order and date of the ancestral rites, the order and date of the ancestral rites, how to set the ancestral table, the location of the ancestral table, and the food for the ancestral rite, and also organized how to use fat.
How to set the ancestral table (setting the ancestral table)
Food for ancestral rites is called jesu (祭需), and ancestral rites vary by region and family. It explains how to set the table for ancestral rites with the food prepared by many. The basics are the same, but the table setting is slightly different depending on the region. So, there is a saying that you should not interfere with other people’s ancestral rites.
in turn
I think the most important event on New Year’s Day is the turn. The meaning of turn means a brief courtesy while serving tea. It is basic to set the table carefully prepared with a heart of gratitude to the ancestors, but it must be served with a formality.
The ancestral rites may honor only one ancestor, but there are also cases where two or more ancestors are honored at once. Compared to the general table setting, there are things that each individual needs to prepare, and there are things that are not.
When looking at the ancestral table from the side of the person performing the ancestral rites (Jeju ancestral lord), the right side of the memorial table is east and the left side is west.
Placing Shinwi in the north means that the north is in the middle of the Five Elements of the theory of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements, and is the highest position, so it means to honor the ancestors.
sacrificial table setting
Rice, soup, and sungnyung are prepared according to the number of ranks.
On holidays, tteokguk or songpyeon is substituted, and the rice is put in a bowl and covered with a lid. For soup, I usually use beef radish soup, cover it, and put a few grains of rice in cold or hot water for sungnyung.
Alcohol (Jeju), vinegar (chojeop), soy sauce (cheongjang), rice cake (pyeon), stew (soup), pancake (jeon), grilled meat (red), po (fish po, beef jerky, etc.), There are Sikhye (hye), namul (succulent), kimchi (chimchae), snacks and fruits (fruit).
I think you can refer to the picture above for how to set up the ancestral rite.
It is usually arranged in 5 rows, but the one with the most dignity
1st row food goes up
2nd row grilled, before
3 row bath
4 rows namul pho
In the 5th row, desserts such as fruit snacks and gangjeong go up.
order of sacrifice
The person in charge of the ancestral rite is called jeju, and the person who helps jeju is called a butler.
In the ancestral rite, alcohol is served three times, called Choheon, Aheon, and Jongheon.
1. Gangsin: Jeju burns incense. When the butler pours alcohol into the cup, Jeju pours it into the woolen bowl three times and bows twice. When worshiping the ancestral spirit, the following novelty is performed first, followed by strong new spirits.
2. Novelty: Everyone bows twice.
3. Choheon: The butler gives Jeju a glass and pours a drink. Jeju turns the cup over the incense burner three times and gives it to the butler. The butler serves the drink and places the chopsticks on the food. Jeju bows twice.
4. Congratulatory message: Jeju reads the congratulatory message without everyone kneeling. When you’re done reading, everyone bows twice.
5. Aheon: This is the second drink, and it is done by the wife or the deceased and the person next to Jeju. The procedure is the same as the first constitution.
6. Jongheon: This is the third drink, and it is done by people close to the deceased, such as the children of Jeju. The procedure is the same as Aheon, but the alcohol is poured in 7 parts so that the cup can be made.
7. Yusik: The jeju kneels in front of the ancestral table, and the butler adds a drink to the remaining wine. Jeju’s wife opens the rice lid and inserts a spoon. Place the chopsticks on the seam allowance with the handle facing to the left. This is called sapsijeongjeo (揷匙定箸). Jeju bows twice and the wife bows four times.
8. Hapmun: Go outside the door and wait for a while. If it is unavoidable, everyone gets down on their knees and waits for a while.
9. Serve: Serve soup and serve sungnyung. Roll the rice into the sungnyung three times and place the spoon on the sungnyung bowl. Get on your knees for a while and wait.
10. Sasin: Take the spoon of Sungnyung and close the rice bowl. Everyone bows twice. Burn fat and congratulations. The god is enshrined in the shrine.
11. Cheolsang: bite the ancestral food. Do it in turn from the back.
12. Eumbok: Divide and eat.
how to burn fat
Fat is a counterfeit money made by temporarily writing on paper during ancestral rites and ancestral rites.
The fat is written vertically on white paper measuring 6cm wide and 22cm long.
Originally, I should write it with all my heart, but I borrow the power of civilization and use it a lot by printing it.
At this time, if only one person passed away, write it in the center, and when both of them passed away, write the left senior (father) and the right spleen (mother).
I have summarized it more simply below.
▶For fat, a width of about 6cm and a length of about 22cm is appropriate, and Korean paper (white paper) is used.
▶Write Gowi (father) on the left and Biwi (mother) on the right, and write in the center if only one person passed away.
▶Write down the relationship between the deceased and the person holding the ancestral rite (Jeju)
▶ After writing the position and name of the deceased
▶ At the end, write Shinwi.
▶ Hyeon is attached to the first letter of a province as a sign of respect
▶Go means the deceased father, and Bi means the deceased mother.
▶ Grandfather. In the case of grandmother, Jogo/Jobi. The more you go up, the more you attach the title of great ancestor, great ancestor.