Coming of Age Day in Korea (성년의 날) Gwanrye / Gyerye

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Coming of Age Day in Korea (성년의 날) Gwanrye

Ergenlikten yetişkinliğe geçiş için yapılan bir törendir. Bu törenler dünyanın pek çok ülkesinde yapılır. Bazı toplumlarda bu tören cinsel olgunlukla bazılarında da dini sorumluluklarla ilgilidir. Her iki durumda da özel törenler yapılır.

Kore’de ise "coming-of-age day (성년의 날)" töreni Mayısın 3.haftasında kutlanır. Gwanrye’nin kökeni Çin’dir. Kore’ye üç krallık döneminde Çin’den geçmiştir. Kore'de daha çok Konfüçyüs gelenekleriile ilgilidir. 15-20 yaşına gelmiş gençler törene katılır ve geleneksel Kore kıyafetlerini giyerler. Tören için özel yiyecekler hazırlanır. Gençler evlilik töreni yapabilir, alkol ve sigara içebilir ve yaklaşık 19 (20) yaşlarındayken de araba kullanabilir. Kore’de erkekler için yapılan bu törene Gwanrye; kızlar için yapılan törene de Gyerye denir.

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Coming of age is a young person's transition from adolescence to adulthood. The age at which this transition takes place varies in society, as does the nature of the transition. It can be a simple legal convention or can be part of a ritual, as practiced by many societies. In the past, and in some societies today, such a change is associated with the age of sexual maturity (mid-adolescence); in others, it is associated with an age of religious responsibility.

In Korea, the Monday of the third week of May is "coming-of-age day". Also the choice to marry, drink alcohol, to smoke, to vote, and to drive is when you are 19 (20 the most).

This is a ceremony for becoming an adult, an event performed at the coming of one's socially responsible age. In the old days of Korea, the ceremony was called 'Gwan-Rye' or 'Gye-Rye' according to gender of the subject. Gwanrye is the ceremony for young man, which is processed by tying hairs into a topknot and putting a traditional cylindrical hat on the subject's head. Gyerye is for young woman, which is processed by forming a chignon and sticking ornamental hairpin into hairs. Gwanrye (or Gyerye) has been performed not only to celebrate reaching of maturity but to guide the youth to conducting good manners in social life and possess quality required as a matured person. Gwanrye is origin of the coming of age ceremony which is prevalent nowadays to socially acknowledge a juvenile's becoming an adult.

Gwanrye had been originated from China. Presumably the ceremony had been introduced into Korea together with Chinese etiquette in Korea's three-kingdom era. The first record on performing Gwanrye, a Confucian ceremony for becoming an adult, is found at?History of Korea?written in AD 966. It is recorded that Gwangjong, king of Korea dynasty, clothed his son in ceremonial garment and anointed him as crown prince. In Euijong's era, the 18th king of Korea dynasty, the description of 'performed ceremony of clothing prince' is also recorded.

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