Chilseok
chilseok korean 칠석 lit seventh evening korean traditional festival fall seventh day seventh month korean lunisolar calendar originating chinese qixi festival chilseok period heat start dwindle wet season begin rain fall period called chilseok water pumpkin cucumber melon start flourish period people traditionally offered fried pumpkin big dipper origin tale romantic chinese folk tale cowherd weaver girl adopted korean according korean version heavenly king daughter called jiknyeo 직녀 織女 talented weaver one day looked window weaving saw young man herder called gyeonu 견우 牽牛 across milky way fell love father allowed two marry afterwards jiknyeo refused weave clothes gyeonu take good care cow sheep king got angry ordered couple live separately allowing meet year seventh day seventh month year excited meet could cross milky way however crow magpie worked together form bridge across milky way couple sadness returned forced wait another year meeting believed crow magpie feather head couple stepping head rain night believed couple tear chilseok korean traditionally take bath good health addition traditional eat wheat flour noodle grilled wheat cake chilseok known last chance enjoy wheatbased food since cold wind chilseok ruin scent wheat people also used eat wheat pancake called miljeonbyeong 밀전병 sirutteok steamed rice cake covered azuki bean korean calendar qixi festival tanabata dumuzid inanna heavenly maiden woodcutter 조산산 ‘선녀결연 설화’의 유형과 전승 양상 中․韓 견우와 직녀와 나무꾼과 선녀를 중심으로 study type aspect transmission angeltwinning fairytale particular sinokorean tale niu lang zhi nu v gyonu jingnyo respectively 비교문학 issn uci g 이상준 lee sang joon 아동문학에 등장하는 불개와 삽사리의 상징연구 study symbol bulgae sapsaree children’s literature 문화와 예술연구 doi culart origin meaning buddhist tanabata etymology star festival chilseok history custom chilseok gyeonu jingnyeo