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New Year Wine of the Korean Nationality

This wine is mostly brewed for the Korean New Year Festival "Rosh Hashana". The "New Year Wine" takes rice as main ingredients and several Chinese traditional medicinal materials such as root of balloonflower, parsnip, mountain pepper and cassia bark as supplementary ingredients. It is used for self-drinking and entertaining guests during the period of the Spring Festival. It is considered to have the effects of expelling the evil and prolong life span.

 

Drinking Rites on Other Festivals

 

 

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