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Dol or doljanchi (Korean: 돌; 돌잔치) is a Korean tradition that celebrates a baby's first birthday.. The tradition has been practiced since the early Joseon period. The ceremony typically involves the ritual offering of a samsinsang to the god Samsin (whom is said to watch over children), the preparation of a dolsang with various foods and ritual objects, and a doljabi (based on the ...
The doljabi is the main celebration of dol. A large table is prepared with over a dozen different types of rice cakes or tteok (the main food). Some types of tteok are baekseolgi (white steamed rice cakes), susu-gyeongdan (rice cakes coated with rough red bean powder), mujigae-tteok (rainbow-colored steamed rice cakes) and gyepi-tteok (puffed ...
Zhuazhou (抓週 – literally, "pick" and "anniversary", meaning "one-year-old catch" ) is a Chinese ritual held at a child's first birthday party, when the child is 1 year, i.e. typically twelve months since birth (although variable reckonings as to what constitutes a year of age for entitlement for zhuazhou exist), old.
Travels & Traditions is a television series hosted by Burt Wolf and his son Nicholas Wolf.The series began airing in 2000 and is currently in its 22nd season. The New York Times described it as “the best food, travel, and cultural history shows on television.”
The Oral Traditions in Ile-Ife: the Yoruba people and their Book of Enlightenment. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press. ISBN 978-1-933146-65-2. Dayọ̀ Ológundúdú; Akinṣọla Akiwọwọ (foreword) (2008). The cradle of Yoruba culture (Rev. ed.). Institute of Yorubâ Culture ; Center for Spoken Words. ISBN 978-0-615-22063-5.
Klezmer (Yiddish: קלעזמער or כּלי־זמר) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. [1] The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for listening; these would have been played at weddings and other social functions.
His 1983 Jefferson Lecture, The Vindication of Tradition, included an often quoted one liner, [7] which he elaborated in a 1989 interview in U.S. News & World Report. He said: He said: Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.
In Poland, where the tradition survived to modern times, the feast and accompanying rituals are known under a variety of names depending on the region. The prevalent term is dożynki , but wyżynki , obrzynki , wieniec , wieńcowe , żniwniok or okrężne are also used in some areas.