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Showing posts with label ancestral traditions in korea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ancestral traditions in korea. Show all posts
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Fire Seeds
In ancestral Korea, many Korean's did not have matches. Every Korean village had a firebank where coals were kept smoldering. If a villager wanted to start a fire they went to the bank to collect a coal to start their fire. These were called fireseeds. It's a respectful name for something so precious to the people.
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