Word details
한가위
- Pronunciation
- 한가위
- Part of speech
- noun
- Vocabulary level
- none
Hangawi
A traditional Korean holiday; it falls on August 15th by the lunar calendar; on this day, people prepare special foods like songpyeon, half-moon-shaped rice cakes, and newly harvested fruits, and hold a memorial service for their ancestors; they also enjoy a variety of folk plays such as ssireum, a traditional wrestling, juldarigi, tug-of-war, and ganggangsullae, a traditional circle dance.