Unofficial observance
Hansik (Cold Food Festival)
Dates specified for each year
A traditional spring festival for honoring ancestors and tending graves.
How did it begin?
Observed around 105 days after the winter solstice, it is linked to an old custom of eating cold food without lighting fires. In Korea, it became an important festival for visiting ancestral graves and holding ancestral rites.
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