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Jesa — ancestral table

How ritual food is arranged, and why leftovers become a family meal.

After the rite, people eat

Jesa food is offered, then shared. Rules about fish direction and fruit placement vary by family. Visitors should not rearrange the table for a photo. The usable lesson: Korean holidays still treat food as communication with the dead, not only calories.