Festival
Its well-known festival is egg cockle festival. Hongseong area meets coast and muds are ahead of it. Its topographical feature possible to get lots of egg cockles.
The taste of egg cockle is unique and not easy to eat in city area. Because of these reasons, the festival got success step by step. However, oil spill around Taean made it more difficult to host festival these days. Fortunately, Hongseong did not get direct damage caused by oil split. County proclaimed to take place its host on Jan 16 of 2008.
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Famous quotes containing the word festival:
“The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose: at the festival of unleavened bread, at the festival of weeks, and at the festival of booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed; all shall give as they are able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 16:16,17.
“Marry, I cannot show it in rhyme, I have tried; I can find no rhyme to “lady” but “baby”Man innocent rhyme; for “scorn,” “horn”Ma hard rhyme; for “school,” “fool”Ma babbling rhyme; very ominous endings. No, I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)