Week 25 - 52 Rituals/Traditions in 52 Weeks

<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.8pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black;">A Fishy Korean Ritual/Tradition</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.8pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now if your looking for something out of the ordinary, then this one is for you!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.8pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this Korean tradition the poor groom is subjected to some pretty interesting antics. Usually done in the spirit of providing him with increased strength for the wedding night, this ritual begins after the main ceremony. The Groom’s ‘friends’ (using the term loosely) will tie his ankles together with rope then take of his socks in order to beat the soles of his feet with a fish – A Yellow Corvina.</span> </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwsywo5YdPQ7n9rMf5kkxXwBFqLtERK0IplqPKLy0tQ_qkkZejdL9qiKXa9nOskAE4HFn3oRuL6_tBxkgnN88acNZ29pHsy7D8X_VYPYzPQjtBkPlhZ7XRMFE_Sn33PqqPhEeFALGb_3vL/s1600/_Seafood_Yellow_Corvina_Fish_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwsywo5YdPQ7n9rMf5kkxXwBFqLtERK0IplqPKLy0tQ_qkkZejdL9qiKXa9nOskAE4HFn3oRuL6_tBxkgnN88acNZ29pHsy7D8X_VYPYzPQjtBkPlhZ7XRMFE_Sn33PqqPhEeFALGb_3vL/s320/_Seafood_Yellow_Corvina_Fish_.jpg" tea="true" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pic From: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">bluedragon.en.ec21.com</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.8pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><div style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19.8px; margin: 0px 0px 11.2px;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">Odd? Yes a little, but it is all done in the spirit of good will and as a fun gesture of friendship so who are we to judge.</span></div><div style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19.8px; margin: 0px 0px 11.2px;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">We just love these strange and out there rituals/ideas, so if you know of any you would like us to use, please feel free to drop us a line on the contact page.</span></div><div style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19.8px; margin: 0px 0px 11.2px;"><span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Wedding Gurus</i></span></span></div><div style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19.8px; margin: 0px 0px 11.2px;"><span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>xxx</i></span></span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div></div>

Week 25 - 52 Rituals/Traditions in 52 Weeks

A Fishy Korean Ritual/Tradition Now if your looking for something out of the ordinary, then this one is for you! In this Korean tradition th...

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Week 11 - A Korean Wedding Tradition

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome to Week 11 in our ’52 Rituals in 52 weeks’</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In keeping with our promise of taking you around the world with these posts, this week we have decided to bring you something from <u1:country-region w:st="on"><u1:place w:st="on">Korea</u1:place></u1:country-region>. While it will not always be practical for you to use some of these more specific cultural traditions in your own ceremony, we hope that seeing the efforts that some go to in using rituals in ceremony will inspire you to find one that suits you both as a couple or as a family and even perhaps create something different, starting your own family tradition that one day your grandchildren might carry on. All rituals and traditions started somewhere and with someone who found significance in the world around them.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Korean weddings are well known for their eccentric rituals and flair. Long ago it was custom for the couple to practise some long held rituals as part of their ceremony. The groom would ride a white pony all the way to the bride’s residence (regardless of the distance), carrying with him a white goose. The goose was, for Korean’s, a symbol of fertility and presentation of the goose to the waiting bride would ensure good luck when it came time to have a family.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In modern <u1:country-region w:st="on"><u1:place w:st="on">Korea</u1:place></u1:country-region>the Goose still holds the same sentiment, although wooden geese are now preferred given the difficulties of working with live animals!</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Koreans are big on forms of representation when it comes to rituals in ceremony and also engage in a tradition whereby a pair of wooden ducks (representing the bride and the groom) are taken by the couple and placed in the home they will share after the marriage.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglTEXiOtZm_CCTx-CZwaLsJUOfwSzpl4EP_-UzQkG4yqOwZ9j-oB70vbhyphenhyphen4DZTlwPKGBirPirO17hdLFFvPHnXw3fZhzwoXRcJcu2iO2bvW2tYayNlcQ8VN0jK7GRys-2eS-MFd-pzmGaM/s1600/Traditional+Korean+Ducks+Wedding+Tradition.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglTEXiOtZm_CCTx-CZwaLsJUOfwSzpl4EP_-UzQkG4yqOwZ9j-oB70vbhyphenhyphen4DZTlwPKGBirPirO17hdLFFvPHnXw3fZhzwoXRcJcu2iO2bvW2tYayNlcQ8VN0jK7GRys-2eS-MFd-pzmGaM/s400/Traditional+Korean+Ducks+Wedding+Tradition.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the ducks are placed to face each other, then it represents that the couple are happy with each other and are on good terms, but if the ducks are faced outward, with their tails facing then it signals that perhaps there is unhappiness between them. (Pity the poor groom who comes home to find that his bride has faced them tail to tail!)</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let’s hope your ducks all face each other!</span></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Wedding Guru’s</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> x</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xxx</span></span><br /> <br />

Week 11 - A Korean Wedding Tradition

Welcome to Week 11 in our ’52 Rituals in 52 weeks’ In keeping with our promise of taking you around the world with these posts, this week w...

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