Soybeans are called soybeans, and are distinguished from red beans.
The kidneys, which are organs of the human body, are called Kedneys in English, but they are organs of the urinary system that are unrelated to soybeans and red beans as food ingredients.
Legumes are plants that fix atmospheric nitrogen and fertilize the soil, and are said to have the effect of reducing nitrogen fertilizers by tens of thousands of tons annually. On the other hand, they should be seen as making a significant contribution to reducing greenhouse gases caused by climate change.
Clover, a representative plant that fixes soil, is also a type of legume, and is distinguished from peanuts. Others include Gangnam beans, peas, soybeans, bean sprout beans, soybeans, and tofu beans.
Pickled soybean leaves are the only specialty food of Gyeongsang-do. There are many pickled perilla leaves and pickled cucumbers, but this food, which is made by picking young soybean leaves, putting them in salt water, and pressing them with a heavy stone, is a delicacy and is said to have a group of enthusiasts like Jeolla-do’s pickled galchi.
Red beans are a type of legume in the legume family and are called sodu in contrast to soybeans.
Red beans are not used as a single ingredient in making food, but are used to make rice, eat them, or make red bean rice cakes for babies’ 100th day or for special occasions. They are also made into red bean porridge on Dongji Day, which is around December 22nd every year.
As is well known, sweet red bean porridge eaten on Dongji Day began during the Silla Dynasty when people made red bean porridge and sprinkled it on the front door to ward off evil spirits, and it is said that they put in as many dongi as their age.
Red is fire in the Five Elements, the south, the second daughter as the middle daughter, and in terms of mutual generation and mutual inhibition, it is fire-producing earth, and water-extreme fire, but ghosts are yin and brightness is yang, so it is something to think about.
The winter solstice is when yin reaches its peak and disappears and yang begins to grow (yin-geuk-yang-saeng), and in shamanism, it is also seen as the beginning of a new year.
The southern region of the United States, which imports soybeans, has developed large-scale plantation agriculture and mechanization has been introduced, so they are cultivated on land that seems endless, and in Korea, the self-sufficiency rate is said to be less than 5%.