Women typically wear voluminous skirts with a tight jacket. Their food is very spicy and often includes pickled vegetables, cold noodles, and sticky rice cakes. Koreans are known for their customs of respecting the old and cherishing the young. A man of a younger generation must show proper respect and modesty when he speaks to a man of the older generation. Often the older members of the family sit at a special table reserved for honorable guests.
Children always wait to eat until after their parents have eaten.
Koreans celebrate many festivals common to the Chinese such as New Year's, Spring Festival, and National Day. The festivals are often filled with traditional Korean songs and dances as well as official ceremonies commemorating the day. Koreans have the highest education rate of all of China's minorities, demonstrating the cultural value placed on education. They have complete school systems set up for educating their children in their language and culture and have set up many artistic and cultural performing troupes to pass on their culture to the next generation. The majority of Koreans in China claim atheism or no religion, but there are large groups of Mahayana Buddhists and Christians.