In the East, the lunar calendar has been valued since ancient times, and the 15th day of the full moon was considered precious.

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Here, the First Full Moon refers to the 15th day of the first lunar month, which is the day when the first full moon rises when the new year begins in the lunar calendar.

This year, 2025, the First Full Moon will be on February 12th.

On this day, there was a culture of eating and drinking five grain rice, old vegetables, cracking beans, and drinking alcohol with rice cakes.

​The five-grain rice eaten at this time is made of five kinds of black beans, red beans, glutinous corn, millet, and foxtail millet, all of which have health-promoting ingredients, and are said to be beneficial in preventing modern people’s lifestyle-related diseases. It is a traditional holiday where people share and eat five-grain rice to pray for health and abundance.

Kite flying is also a winter game played in streams, and it is only flown until the first full moon of the lunar year. If it is flown after that, it is called a commoner.

Among the old vegetables eaten with the five-grain rice are dried shiitake mushrooms, burdock, pumpkin goji (dried young pumpkin), stir-fried sliced ​​radish, stir-fried pumpkin goji, and stir-fried bracken. In the Gyeongsang-do region, they eat lightly boiled castor bean (ajookari) leaves.

​Five grains are grains with five colors, and they were eaten in black, white, green (blue), red, and yellow according to the five elements of water, fire, wood, metal, and earth.

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