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The
Food on Jeongwoldaeboreum
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Mugeun
Namul (Old Seasoned Greens)
This is a kind of Jeongwoldaeboreum's
seasonal food which is also called as 'Jinchae', and
is made of greens which have been dried since the previous
year, and are boiled to be soaked in water and seasoned
before eating. People eat Mugeun Namul as they say that
eating it on the Daeboreum day will keep them from affected
by heat in that summer. The Mugeon Namul includes dried
slices of pumpkin, eggplant, mushroom, bracken, bellflower,
dried radish leaves, gourd, castor leaves, taro stem,
or such, and it varies according to the regions. |
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Seommandu
This is a big-sized mandu that people
eat at the Jeongwoldaeboreum night, wishing that the
rice bag ('Seom' in Korean) would be full, thanks to
the good harvest in that year. 'Seom' is a kind of bag
that is made of weaving straw to put grain or such in
it and is a unit to measure the volumes of grain, powder,
or liquid. |
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Yakbab
It is made by steaming glutinous
rice with various ingredients such as Chinese dates,
chestnuts, pine nuts, sesame oil, honey, and soy sauce,
and is also referred to as Yaksik, Yakban, Ggulbab,
or Milban. According to the ?Dongguksesigi?, Yakbab
is a good food for Daeboreum and was an old custom of
Silla. |
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Ogokbab
(A Dish Made with All Five Grains)
This is a sort of cooked rice made
with all five grains, rice, millet, Indian millet, Indian
beans, and beans. This Jeongwoldaeboreum's Ogokbab has
a meaning for good harvest that it is also called as
Nongsabab (cooked rice for farming), and is eaten around
the Daeboreum day that it is referred to as Boreumbab
(cooked rice for Boreum) as well. Because of the meaning
of making it with various grains, they seem to have
put 'Ogok (generic term for all kinds of grains)' in
its name, and it is also originated from their wishing
of abundance of those five grains. |
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Wonsobyeong
It is made by kneading glutinous
rice powder in various colors and making it into pieces
of rice cake putting buns into them and steaming them.
The well-cooked rice cake will be floated on honeyed
water or Omija tea, which is a type of punch. The reason
why it is called as Wonsobyeong is that in China, they
call Jeongwoldaeboreum as Wonso and refer to Wonsobyeong
the rice cake that they eat seeing the moon on that
day. |
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