CHUSEOK

Korean harvest national fest called Chuseok is today.
It is the day, in autumn, when the people harvest the fruit of their planting.

It's the moment for the family that often is split between the older's that live into the countryside and the younger living in the city. Even this is changing fast... But Korean try to keep that day for meeting each other's in the family.

Weather's becoming sweater, rice fiel is tinted by yellow color and green tends to disappear.
Day's become more short, and moon bigger.
Insect are at the edge of their life, feeling soothe, here and there, big butterflies, dragonflies, and praying mantis, cicada quieter that in summer but still here.

On this photo is the beginning of the labour cycle...
planting.
and Chuseok is about when you can finally appreciate the result.

Everything is ever changing but cycle define moments, and then for the time of end of transformation, celebration and culture.
Culture of field, culture of people, culture of arts, culture of tradition, all in the word culture.

We can see the link that is clear between the cultural, the traditional, and the labor.
the word culture that includes art and tradition is in fact bound to this cycle, consisting of an effort in order to feeding ourselves according to the principes of nature.
This is why it is "sacred moment".

The equivalent of that is Thanksgiving.

So happy Chuseok day,
and if you wish to know more about ,
here are some links that show the traditional ritual in South Korea.

http://nimaparis.blog.me/140029516550
http://nimaparis.blog.me/140029516901
http://nimaparis.blog.me/140029621694
http://nimaparis.blog.me/140029622289
http://nimaparis.blog.me/140029622481