Harvest Food Group

Like many cultures around the world, Korea celebrates a harvest festival every year around the Autumn Equinox. It is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, so the date changes slightly each year, but it always spans three days. In fact, Chuseok is one of the most important holidays of the Korean calendar as a time when families gather in their ancestral hometowns and celebrate with special foods.

History of Chuseok

As a harvest festival, people have long celebrated Chuseok with the new bounty of food, and some researchers believe that Chuseok may originally have been a deity-worship holiday when food from new harvests was offered to gods and ancestors. Another legend tells of a weaving contest that was held annually during the Silla period (57 BC - 935 AD) in which two teams competed to see which could weave the most cloth in a certain amount of time. On the final day, whichever team lost the contest had to treat the winning team to a grand feast.

Traditional activities are still performed during Chuseok, such as Korean archery, tug of war, and traditional music and dancing.

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