Tteok
Tteok ( 떡 ) is a Korean rice cake made from sticky rice flour. Rice cakes are often served on holiday in Korea. Tteokguk (rice cake soup ) is often eaten on New Year ( Seollal ) ( 설날 ) and a filled rice cake is eaten on Thanksgiving Day ( Chuseok ) ( 추석 ), Songpyeon ( 송편 ). A common daily dish with Tteok is by Gochujang very sharp Tteokbokki .
Tteoksal
Since the Goryeo period (918-1392), Tteok was given a rice cake shape , called Tteoksal ( 떡살 ), by pressing the surface with the shape with different designs that, depending on the design, had different spiritual meanings or was a status symbol of a family. With the mechanized production of rice cakes in the 1970s, this tradition largely disappeared from everyday Korean life.
See also
literature
- Kang Shin-jae: Tteoksal collector Kim Gil-seong . Fall into graceful symbolic patterns of wishes for life. In: Koreana . Volume 9, No. 4. The Korea Foundation , 2014, ISSN 1975-0617 , p. 44–49 (German language edition).