유두
Korean
Noun
유두 (流頭, yudu)
- a midsummer festival of obsolete Korean tradition held on the 15th of June of the lunar calendar. Remarkably, people washed their hair in rivers especially flowing eastward, hence the name.
Alternative forms
- 류두 (ryudu, lyudu)
Derived terms
- 유두물 (-mur, -mul) rainfall around the festival
- 유두벼 (-byeo) rice crop dedicated to the ancestors
- 유두연 (-宴, -yeon) open-air party of the festival
See also
- 여름 (yeoreum) summer
- 하지 (夏至, haji) summer solstice
- 겨울 (gyeour, -l) winter
- 동지 (冬至, dongji) winter solstice