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Chuseok

Hanbok in autumn colours and half-moon rice cakes in white, green, pink and yellow, steamed on pine needles.

Jesa , a type of Korean ancestor veneration held on Chuseok (Korean mid-autumn festival).
Photo: by Joseph Steinberg (Baltimoron in Korea) at Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The colours of Chuseok

Chuseok is the Korean harvest festival, kept at the full moon of the eighth month. Families travel to their home towns, tidy the ancestral graves and set a table of new rice and fruit for the ancestors. Many dress in hanbok. The food that carries the colour is songpyeon, small half-moon rice cakes made by the whole family the night before. The dough is coloured with natural things: plain white, green from mugwort, pink from omija berries or strawberry, yellow from pumpkin or gardenia seed, brown from cinnamon. They are steamed on a layer of green pine needles, which scent them. It is said that whoever shapes a pretty songpyeon will have a pretty child. Round dances are held under the moon.

#FAF8F0Songpyeon whitePlain rice dough.
#7FA35AMugwort greenDough coloured with mugwort.
#F1A7B5Omija pinkDough coloured with berries.
#F2CF4AGardenia yellowDough coloured with gardenia seed or pumpkin.
#2F5D3APine greenThe pine needles the cakes are steamed on.

Values are fair approximations, not official shades.

Read about the colours

WhiteRice, and a favoured colour of Korean dress.GreenMugwort and pine.PinkBerry-coloured cakes.
About this page

Written by the Rang desk with AI assistance. Background: "Chuseok" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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