Chuseok is a time to give thanks for the harvest and pay respects to ancestors. Lots of food is prepared, then the family dressed in new hanboks performs the ritual of charye at the family’s ancestoral graves. The one food that is most closely associated with Chuseok is songpyeon. This is a rice cake filled with sesame, red beans, and chesnuts. They are usually shaped like crescent moons. Other foods that are eaten include rice, soup, fish, meat, fruit (such as apples pears, oranges or persimmons) and greens (bean sprouts and spinach).
Excerpt from : http://2worlds1family.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/추석-chuseok-korean-thanksgiving/
This week we celebrated an important Korean holiday in our own way. On Monday we went to the Korean market to buy the ingredients to make songpyeon, a semi-sweet round treat that looks like the moon. Luckily I found some frozen ones, which made it easier.
Tuesday we ate lunch at a Korean restaurant. Lydia liked the cucumbers, dumplings, and watermelon. On Wednesday morning, the day of Chuseok, we set the table with bowls of round fruit(apples, plums, and asian pears). I made vegetable pancakes with sweet potatoes and squash. We placed a picture of Lydia's foster family on the table. We prayed for them and Lydia's birth parents.
Then we dressed Lydia in her hanbok and talked to her grandparents on Skype. We took lots of pictures of Lydia all dressed up.
Later we read the book Sori's Harvest Moon Day. We had dumplings for dinner with songpyeon for dessert. After dark we went out to view the full moon.
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