Daeboreum (it means 'Great full Moon) is a Korean traditional holiday that celebrates the first full Moon of the new year in the Korean lunar calendar. Because of the lunar calender the date changes every year, but usually it is in Feburary. Traditionally, Korean people have considered Daeboreum as an important day because it is the day of the first Moon of the year rising that means a new start of the year.
There are a lot of traditons on this day. First of all, people eat different kinds of nuts such as chestnuts, walnuts and pine nuts, etc. By cracking a nut, people believe that they can guard themseleves aginst bad luck for a year. In the countryside, people go up to the mountain and try to see the first rise of Moon. Also, they play a game called 'gueybulnori' the night before Daeboreum which is burning dry grass and straw while children spin the can full of fire.
It is said that if someone slept at the night, his eyebrow would turn to grey. Usually, adult plays a trick on children by putting flour on their eyebrows. For breakfast on Daeboreum, people usually eat five-'grain' rice which include rice, barley, millet, Indian millet and red bean.
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