Do the Korean people have the habit of drinking alcohol?

The Korean people, who live mainly in the northeastern provinces and have a long history and culture, are a famous ethnic group that pays great attention to etiquette, and at the same time can sing and dance well, and are accompanied by fine wines all the time in their lives.

When drinking at home, generally the younger generation can not drink in front of the elders, unless the elders want the elders to drink in front of them, then they need to take the glass with both hands, immediately turn around and drink the wine, and then express their gratitude to the elders.

In the traditional festival of Spring Festival, the Korean people have to eat the "year-old wine", the Spring Festival in their mouth is called "the first day of the year", "year-old wine" is different from the usual white wine, it is made of orange blossom, antiseptic and other ingredients, which are used to make the wine. Unlike normal liquor, it is made from the most valuable Chinese herbs, such as Kratom, Fenghuang, Shanjiao, and Cinnamon, and is somewhat similar to the Han Dynasty's "Tusu Wine". However, the recipes are different. Drinking this wine will bring longevity to your family and protect you from evil spirits. On the 15th day of the first lunar month, the Korean people also drink "ear-mingju", which is a wine that is drunk on the morning of that day to signify that the ear is bright. If you don't get any ear disease in a year, you can often hear happy things. In the Dragon Boat Festival, they will prepare rice cakes and sticky rice, according to the ancient books: "but the Dragon Boat Festival is exceptionally grand, must rest for three days, drinking and eating meat. It is a little rich, and there is a cake for food, kill the dog with wine."

When the Han Chinese celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Koreans call it the "Autumn Sunset Festival", they will put a large water basin on the table in the courtyard, in order to view the fifteenth full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also to appreciate the moon reflected in the water, the festival, will use new rice to make a new rice cake, killing cows and slaughtering chickens, the atmosphere is very grand, viewing the full moon in the sky. When the full moon is in the sky, the whole family will sing and dance happily and drink wine.

At the time of the wedding, the bridegroom first gives the bride a toast, the wine cups with a tray, which is sprinkled with colorful silk or green and red silk, colorful, which hopes that the new couple's life can be colorful, the bride performs a kneeling ceremony to receive the wine, and then toasts to the bridegroom.

After the groom gives a speech to the bride's family, the best man will have the food and wine collected and sent to the groom's home, where it will first be taken to the ancestral hall to pay tribute to the ancestors, and then the food and wine will be served to the family to be eaten up, which is a good way to show that the Joseon people have a tradition of paying tribute to their ancestors and honoring the elderly.

When there are both alive in the family 60 years old, the younger generation there is a "back to the wedding festival", dedicated to the old people to do a grand celebration, the night, the old man to wear the year of the wedding dress, enjoy the toast given to the toast, and dance beautifully, with the younger generation together with the song and laughter.