The story about Dongjwee redbean porridge of korea
Dongjwee is the day which has the longest night (Dongjwee : winter solstice)
What food comes to your mind if you think of Dongjwee?
Dongjwee redbean porridge comes to my mind. There are so many origin story of Dongjwee redbean porridge. Here is what I remember for Dongjwee redbean porridge in my childhood.
After eating redbean porridge whose color is red if people put this on the gate or the wall it can protect people’s body and their houses from the ghost
Since then this tradition used to be regarded as a dirty thing so it was sometimes forbidden
This is very similar to the story of Mose’s tenth plague. To avoid tenth plague people who belived in Mose’s words put the blood of lambs on the tops of doorframes of the houses
The red color of redbeans are appropriate to kick the ghost out. It is descended that ancestors used to make balls with gloutinous rice and put the same number of them as their ages into the redbean porridge. What would happen if somebody is too old like one hundred?
People think when we meet a new year we get one year older. But in korea it means Dongjwee is starting day of new year and since Dongjwee the sun is resurrected. So korean ancestors used to say that when Dongjwee is passed we get one year older.
There are so many fun stories related to the origin of Dongjwee.
In the bible which is know as a bestseller there is a story about redbean porridge.
In Mose’s book the first child is supposed to be blessed as it is.
It is like long ago in korea only first son inherits all from their parents.
Issac who was the son of Abraham had twin brothers. Esau was the first son and Jacob was the second. Jacob wanted to the right of firstson. One day he cooked a delicious redbean porridge and dealt the right of firstson with a bowl of redbean poridge to Esseo. He dressed up like his brother to deceive his father and got all kinds of blessings which was supposed to be given to his brother. I guess the redbean porridge must have been delicious for Esau to sell it with a bowl of redbean porridge
As sharing the origin of redbean porridge so may stories came to us.
By the way there are so many food which is made of redbeans.
TIce flake with redbeans, redbean bread, a fish-shaped bun, redbean ricecake, and so on.
In korea every winter night people can hear a redbean bread seller shouting “Glutinous ricecake and buckwheart jelly” and buy them.
Hot packs which are koreans favorite contain redbean inside. After warming it inside of the microwave and put it on the waist or the belly. It can massage our bodies of itself. Long ago when people’s feet or hands got frozen they kept the bag of redbeans in their hands.
Dongjwee is coming. I hope on Dongjwee this year I feel like eating redbean porridge with joy for Dongjwee.
Was the origin of redbean porridge of Dongjwee fun? I hope you enjoy redbean porridge of Dongjwee.
