2026 Chuseok Charye Table: Five-Row Order and What You Can Simplify
If you are preparing charye for Chuseok 2026, you do not have to treat five rows, jeon, several soups, or fixed fruit positions as mandatory. The customary five-row order starts nearest the ancestral tablet with rice and soup, followed by grilled dishes and jeon, tang, seasoned vegetables and dried foods, and fruit—but your family may reduce the dishes and work according to its traditions and circumstances. The article lists Chuseok as Friday, September 25, with September 24 as the day before and September 26 as the day after. You should still verify the exact date, day of the week, and statutory holiday period through the government’s official public holiday calendar. How the 2026 Chuseok Charye Table Is Arranged You count the rows from the side nearest the ancestral tablet, not from where you face the table. The first row commonly holds rice, soup, a wine cup, utensils, and songpyeon; the second has grilled dishes, skewers, or jeon; the third has tang, meaning soup; the fo...