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Introduction of Hansik
It is one of the
Korea's four biggest holidays along with Seol, Dano, and Chuseok.
For some fixed period around this, it is forbidden to use
fire, which is originated from old Chinese customs.
The Food of Hansik
It is one of the Korea's four
biggest holidays along with Seol, Dano, and Chuseok. For some
fixed period around this, it is forbidden to use fire, which
is originated from old Chinese customs.
Ssukdanja
This is a kind of rice cake made
by the process that after mixing the cooked glutinous
rice powder well with the mugwort boiled and chopped,
make them into pieces of rice cake in a round shape
putting in them the buns and cover them with mashed
red-beans or such. It is also called as Ssukruridanja
or Bopulddeok. A record on Ssukdanja was written in
"Jungbosanrimgyeongje" for the first time; it says,
"After soaking two does of glutinous rice in water and
pound it in a mortar hard, knead it with hot water and
boil it. Then mix it well with one doe of mugwort to
make pieces of rice cake putting chestnut buns in them,
and boil them again and take them out to cover them
with mashed chestnuts or pine nuts. As they were saying
"It's a seasonal food for spring," they used the chestnut
bun and mashed chestnuts and pine nuts with the glutinous
rice and mugwort as main ingredients.
Ssukddeok
(Rice Cake Made with Mugwort)
This is a kind of rice cake made
by mixing rice powder with mugwort. As seeing the Dandun
mythology that says after eating mugwort, a bear becomes
the Hwanung's wife to bear Dangun, the history of eating
it would be very long. In China, it is one of the important
hardy foods as well, and a Chinese record says, "It
has been quite long since the people depend only on
mugwort for their living."