This morning I woke at 6:30 am, showered, put on nice clothes and we headed over to my Korean father's cousin's home. Once there the men performed a ceremony with food layed out like you seea above. At about 8 am we came back to our house and the men repeated the same ceremony.
Above is a picture of the ceremony taking place. It is a ceremony for their ancestors and the idea is to share food with the ancestors to eat. The younger men serve the ancestors and they stand a spoon straight up in the rice, then they take a small amount of each type of food and put it in a small bowl with alcohol and rice. The man in the left of the picture is kneeling and bowing to the ancestors; all the men do this.
Here is a close-up picture of the traditional food that we serve to the ancestors on Chueseok; the same food that we made yesterday. From the left are apples, tomatoes, a melon, beef and pork, tofu, mushrooms, bean sprouts, fish, the dumplings I made yesterday, more fruit and in the back right corner are the dok cookies and other types of dok (rice cakes) for dessert.
The whole thing took place in the living room; the same place where we did the cooking yesterday. It is a lot of work to prepare for this holiday. Afterwards, we all sat down and had a feast.
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