Lunar New Year - Kim Young-jin's picture book 13

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“Hey, it’s Lunar New Year!”
The first day of the new year is always full of excitement!

Lunar New Year is Green’s favorite holiday. You can eat as much delicious food as chewy rice cake soup, golden brown pancakes, and sanjeok that melts in your mouth. And above all, Lunar New Year is the day when Green gives his long-awaited New Year’s greeting.
Green's family cleaned up the house and went shopping. And I prepared food for ancestral rites and played yut with my aunt and her uncle, whom I met after a long time. On the morning of New Year's Day, children dressed up in hanbok early and performed ancestral rites with adults, then ate delicious tteokguk (rice cake soup) and bowed. After a happy New Year's Day, Greene soon headed to her maternal grandmother's house. She stands with her heaving breasts as she begins the new year.
The first day of the new year, January 1st of the lunar calendar, is the biggest holiday of our people, Lunar New Year. Since ancient times, on the first day of the new year, people cleaned up and dressed up as 'Seolbim', and family and friends gathered together to pray for health and happiness. These days, many families celebrate Lunar New Year in various ways. Some people go on trips during long vacations, and others perform ancestral rites in different ways depending on their religion. The story of Green's family in the book depicts a family spending various holidays. Green's cousin Eunbi's grandfather and grandmother go on a trip for the Lunar New Year, and my uncle's family, who go to church, pray to the absolute God during ancestral rites.
The way to welcome the Lunar New Year varies from household to household, but the hope and excitement for the new year and the feelings of family and friends wishing each other health and well-being will remain the same. Reminisce about our family's holidays while watching the story of Green's noisy holiday, eating delicious food, playing Yut, and playing Jegicha.

“Let’s send our golden hearts wishing for good fortune together.”
The meaning of family and holidays in Lunar New Year!

Dad, who went shopping with Green, buys apples and pears to give to his relatives, and chooses a special gold wrapping cloth to wrap them. “Dad, why do you make it gold? When Green asks, “Is there even a pink one?”, Dad tells him that if gold comes in the new year, good luck will come. It depicts how we put our wishes for the happiness of our family and friends even in the packaging of even a small gift.
The way Green's family asks about each other's well-being, and is happy and supportive as if it were their own, shows that even if we don't see each other often, the strong fence of family is a great strength to us. Also, Green, who felt a little disappointed with his cousin Eunbi because he didn't join her in play, is seen smiling and getting ready with his sister, wearing hanbok, as if he never did this again. Even though they sometimes get upset and fight, they are a family that cares for and loves each other. It quickly makes you realize that you can understand each other.
Lunar New Year is a day when families welcome the new year with the mindset of checking on each other's well-being, communicating, and wishing for good luck. Think about family and the meaning of the holiday as you read Green's Lunar New Year story, which will bring a happy smile to your face just by looking at it. Also, on the first day of the upcoming new year, let's talk about what wishes you and your family will have.

A real growth story of our child and our family!
Korea's representative lifestyle fantasy picture book, the 'Kim Young-jin Picture Book' series!

As if we were watching a story that happened in our own home, 'Dad Writer' Kim Young-jin, who is loved by many for his lively stories, once again tells us a delightful family story, this time with the story of the nation's great holiday, the Lunar New Year.
Stories and smiles bloom on the faces of families who gather to welcome the Lunar New Year. Conversations full of joy and affection, such as being surprised by children who have grown taller without seeing each other, cheering on children who are immersed in their favorite things, and happily playing pranks, vividly show the faces of families meeting after a long time. I'm giving it. The sight of the kitchen busy preparing food is as vivid as the delicious smell. From golden brown dongtaejeon, vegetables mixed in fragrant seasoning to sweet and salty marinated sanjeok, there are mouth-watering dishes just looking at them. The lovely sight of Green and the children dressed up in colorful clothes and bowing to the New Year is captured in the bright expressions on each person's face, conveying the joyful and happy atmosphere of the Lunar New Year that is completed just by the whole family being together.
Welcome a warm and happy New Year by reading 《Seollal》, 'the real story of our children and our family', told by Kim Young-jin, Korea's leading 'dad writer'.