Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Can anyone help me translate these paragraphs into Korean ??? (Best one gets 10 Points!!!)?

1. Holiday customs



New Year's Day and Chusok are the two biggest holidays in Korea. Most stores are closed, and people wear traditional dress, called hanbok. They also visit their families' hometowns. New Year's Day is observed twice: on January 1 by the solar calendar and again on January 1 by the lunar calendar. January 1 and 2 are Solar New Year's Day holidays. The Lunar New Year's Day falls on a different day every year, usually in February, according to the solar calendar. During the three Lunar New Year's Day holidays, many people visit their hometowns and hold memorial services for their ancestors. On New Year's Day people make traditional bows to elders, and children receive money along with blessings. People go to visit relatives, teachers, and superiors.



Chusok is one of the oldest holidays in Korea, originating in an ancient harvest ritual. It falls on August 15 by the lunar calendar (usually in September). New grain and taro soup are served on a ceremonial table. People visit and weed the graves of their ancestors and make deep bows. Chusok is celebrated with new grain and fruit. Song-phyun is one of the most typical foods.



2. How many bowls of rice-cake soup (??) did you have?



Special food is prepared for each holiday. New Year's Day is celebrated with rice-cake soup (??). The coin-shaped rice cakes are cooked in beef broth. In Korea, counting age (often called ?? ??) begins at birth: you are one year old when you are born and you become one year older each New Year's Day. People commonly use Korean age reckoning, except for official purposes, when the Western method of counting age is used. Since age is closely associated with New Year's Day and with rice-cake soup, ? ?? ? ?? ???? now has the extended meaning 'How old are you?'



3. Holiday games



On New Year's Day people enjoy games like ?, seesawing, and kite-flying. While outdoor activities are not as common as they once were, indoor games are still popular. One popular indoor game is ??, which was introduced to Korea during the Japanese occupation. ?? is played with with a deck of forty-eight cards, with four cards representing each of the twelve months.



??? has a very old history dating back to the Three Kingdoms period, when people used it to find out their fortune for the year. It is played with four wooden sticks that are flat on one side and round on the other. These sticks are tossed in the air and the moves are determined by how the sticks land:



one flat side up: ? (one move)

two flat sides up: ? (two moves)

three flat sides up: ? (three moves)

four flat sides up: ? (four moves and an extra turn)

five round sides up: ? (five moves and an extra turn)



The players' horses (?) travel on the ? board.



4. How to wear hanbok



Traiditional hanbok for formal occasions were strictly differentiated by color and type. Men normally wore pants, a jacket, a vest, and magoja indoors, and put on a turumagi, or coat, and a horsehair hat when going out. Women's hanbok requires multiple layers of underwear. For daily wear, women generally put on six different undergarments beneath the skirt. First comes a slip, bloomers, underwear, long drawers, wide pants, and an underskirt, and then the outer skirt is put on. In addition, an undershirt and a waistband are worn beneath the outer jacket. For ceremonial wear, women wore an undershirt, an underjacket, and an outer jacket and two additional ruffled underskirts for a more voluminous look.



Present-day Koreans, both males and females, now omit one or more of the traditional garments when wearing Hanbok.Can anyone help me translate these paragraphs into Korean ??? (Best one gets 10 Points!!!)?
I tryed going to google translate, but when i copyed and pasted all i got were boxes..

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