Usanblin {Usan}
Usan is a rural country with thick humidaid jungels and Humaid tempraid pine forest in northen Usan. community and family are very imporant to Usan. It's rare for people to move out of there hometowns And if someone dose it's a huge deal.
Naming Traditions
Feminine names
Women after change there name threw out there life to fit what roll they are taking,
a child named WaYJo (child of water) Might change there name to HeJo (Young water)
Tho many change there name even more drastically, a sample could be WaYJo changing to BiAr (To cook food) If they become a cheif.
Masculine names
Names of furits are the most common male names.
Unisex names
Regradless of gender putting a cardinal direction in your personal name is seen a bad luck.
Family names
Family names manly include a cardinal direction showing where the family is from.
Other names
Words that are types of animal's are uncommon names, and are seen as ugly.
Culture
Shared customary codes and values
The Usan Zodiac is very impornat to daily life, people often ask otheres their zodiac when first meeting.
Common Etiquette rules
Food and Eating: In formal diners Men do not start eating untill all of the women at the dinner have started.
Common Dress code
Fabric code is very imporant, symbols and patterns you where are seen to change your luck for good for bad.
Unlike most Koroblin cultures, Both men and women wear skirts, and hair leagths are not gendered. What dose become gendered is how you style your hair and if your wear makeup. Tieing your hair up is seen as a femmien thing to do, While wearing any kind of make up is seen as a thing for men to do.
Art & Architecture
Dyed fabrics is the most common fiber art in Usan.
Stone and wood caring are extreamly common and popular
The most tradtional art in Usan is SaBa chains. Chains of hand crafted beads, witch are worn on bags, or on belts. Durring holidays Saba Beads are often worn on headdresses and clothing. SaBa beads are often craved into animal shapes. Some SaBa artist make beads of Fay, Demons, people or even food. SaBa artist often sell Chains with beads that tell a story when looked from Top to bottom.
Foods & Cuisine
Heavyly spiced Steemed and Girlled food is the most common.
Soups are seen a holliday dish.
Alcoholic drinks tends to spiced and low in Alcohol%
Common Customs, traditions and rituals
Shrines to local animal's and the 'Four Tigers' are very common.
Hollidays and shrines match the Usan Zodiac, people go there to celebrate brithday's, Passing of seassons, Weddings, and Funerarls.
There the hot spot of the community, people often travel far to go Shrines that match there zodiac sign.
Funerary and Memorial customs
When someone days they are given to the shrine that matches there zodic sign. Where their body is given to the animals that live in the shrine.
Ideals
Beauty Ideals
Beauty is marked by your community's opinon on your self. Those who dont join in holliday celebrations, or help durring the haverest sessons. are seen as outcast. Being alone is seen as the worst thing you can do for your social imange. even somthing as simple as grabing the mail alone can make you seen as a lonely creep.
Gender Ideals
Women lead, Men Support.
Women are expected to do most of the hard work, pysical laybor, Making Family plans, and taking leading parts of thier community. Managing the community's resources.
Men are excpected to do more time taking work, Taking care of kids, Cooking, Clothing making/repairs, and other home magement.
Courtship Ideals
Arranged marriage is the major way people get married. Marriages get Arranged by your parnets if your rich, or by your community if your from a more rural area.
Relationship Ideals
A romantic relationship and or marraige is one where it is expected for both parters to keep the other happy. Even tho men are heavly expecpected to keep the home. It dosent mean that women can just do nothing at home, they too are expceted too make sure there spouse's needs are met.
Same gender/sex relationships are pretty taboo; But having a small fling with someone of the same gender is seen as "fine". But a long term same gender/sex relationship is seen as useless, harming the community, and other all immatue thing to do.
Whats even more taboo then a same gender/sex relationships is Mix species relationships. Being with someone of a species you are not is one of the most controversial things you can do.
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