The cultural dispute between China and South Korea
Perhaps this topic is not appropriate, because China seems to have basically never competed with South Korea, and China does not need to compete. Those cultures are originally Chinese, and what China is promoting is originally its own, so why is there a cultural war?
On the contrary, South Korea is stealing Chinese culture and trying every means to Koreanize Chinese culture.
I think the main reasons for South Korea’s behavior of stealing Chinese culture are as follows.
1 The Korean nation is self-deceiving and refuses to admit that it has ever been dependent on China.
South Korea has been a dependent state of China for a long time, and it was under China's rule for a long time. It was not until after World War II that South Korea finally completely got rid of China's influence. South Korea has been living under the influence of China for so many years. Now it finally has a chance to turn around and surpass China economically. So, I feel a little carried away and arrogant. But this does not completely eliminate the fact that they were once attached to China, because their Korean culture is rooted in Chinese culture. People all over the world know this, and Koreans dare not blatantly say otherwise. Therefore, South Korea came up with a series of self-deception methods. As long as they say Chinese culture is their own, they will not feel that they are inferior to China, and they will feel like they are suppressing China. Therefore, in South Korea, there are top-down remarks that vilify China, belittle China, and praise South Korea. Little do they know that this act of suppressing other countries and stealing other countries' culture can only deceive themselves and will not be recognized by other countries in the world. Instead, it will be ridiculed by other countries.
2 China is becoming increasingly powerful.
China’s economy has made a qualitative leap since its reform and opening up, and its GDP now far exceeds that of South Korea. Judging from the current situation, in addition to its strong economy, China's comprehensive strength is also constantly strengthening, and it is active on the world stage as a responsible big country.
Compared with South Korea, their economic development relied on the United States to survive. This is something they are proud of. In just a few decades, South Korea's economy has undergone earth-shaking changes. This used to be the only place they could scream at China. Now, China has achieved several times more achievements in less than twice the time. China's rapid development has deeply stung the already fragile Korean people's pride. More importantly, as China becomes stronger, South Korea has less and less say in Asia, and the United States, the puppet master at that time, also had many thoughts of giving up on South Korea. South Korea feels increasingly insignificant, so it does some ridiculous things to attract international attention.
The return of 3 Chinese characters forces South Korea to face Chinese culture.
This year, the South Korean government has successively issued a series of regulations requiring the restoration of the circulation of Chinese characters in South Korea. The "Plan for Promoting the Concurrent Use of Chinese Characters" launched in 2005 undoubtedly announced that South Korea's elimination of Chinese characters has completely failed. At this point, South Korea can no longer avoid its origins with China. But the deep-rooted desire of the Korean nation to escape from China has not changed, and that arrogance will not die out because of the failure to remove Chinese characters. On the contrary, South Korea has embarked on another more extreme path. Since we cannot get rid of Chinese culture, let Chinese culture become Korean culture. We can see that South Korea’s theft of Chinese culture reached its peak after the complete failure of de-Chinese characterization. This fully exposed South Korea’s cowardly self-deception.
As for the cultural entanglement between China and South Korea, I think we don’t need to care so much. Just like the views of those old Chinese medicine practitioners when faced with South Korea's desire to apply for "Oriental Medicine" to be a cultural heritage. "What traditional Chinese medicine needs is not protection, but development. When traditional Chinese medicine reaches another peak, all rumors will be disproven."
When it comes to the issue of traditional Chinese culture, The first thing to do is to think about how to develop, rather than to discuss who she belongs to. If we don't develop, even if we get back the right to belong to our culture in the end, those cultures will be lost in the traces of history. So, what do we get? Culture without social expression is just a document.
Answer’s Supplement 2010-08-10 20:05 Thoughts brought to us by the cultural dispute between China and South Korea
After being reported many times by some Chinese media, South Korea Finally responded.
The South Korean Embassy in China sent a statement to the Chinese media saying that it was "deeply concerned by the so-called false reports by South Korean professors claiming that "the poet Li Bai is Korean", "Sun Yat-sen is Korean", "Korean people invented Chinese characters"... and pay attention to it.” The statement pointed out that most of these reports about "Chinese culture being influenced by South Korea" were later found to have no factual basis. Some reports misinterpret a certain person's views as the common position of Korean people, distort the truth and create hype.
After reading this statement, I felt a bit dumbfounded. It seems that "the farce of the cultural dispute between China and South Korea has attracted the attention of the South Korean government. At least South Korea is worried that such news reports will affect the Chinese people's view of South Korea." attitude. In the past two years, I have written two comments about Korean culture. From the comments made by some netizens who called them "sticks", I have felt a certain national sentiment. Whenever I talk about Korea, there is always a tone of resentment and disdain. The spread is not unrelated to this fabricated "cultural war"
I remember that "Korean" was still a trend a few years ago, but in 2005, South Korea's Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival was "listed as a World Heritage Site" by the United Nations. " Successfully started, a virtual cultural battle kicked off. The media has long explained that although the origin of the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival is related to the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, it is not the same as the Dragon Boat Festival customs. It mainly refers to the local It is a kind of sacrificial activity, and most of the sacrifices are made to gods unique to Korea, such as the Daegwallyeong Mountain God. It is just a religious activity in which Korean people greet various agricultural gods at the Dragon Boat Festival. Although there is Confucianism. Sacrificial rituals, but witchcraft rituals are mostly cultural content unique to the Korean people. Even when Korean people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, they eat mugwort cakes and drink yiren juice, which is very different from the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival customs.
This is a common phenomenon in some cultural circles with the same origin. Although some customs originate in a certain place, in the long history and cultural exchanges, they will be absorbed and accepted by surrounding countries or regions and evolve. As a unique custom of our nation, this is a normal state of cultural inheritance and development.
This normal state has become a normal state in the words of some cultural officials, experts and media. Competition. It seems that “applying for World Heritage” is regarded as applying for a patent. In fact, “applying for World Heritage” and applying for a patent are completely different concepts. As long as the project you apply for has its own unique historical heritage and cultural characteristics, you can still continue to apply for it. The application for World Heritage is a recognition of the protection status of traditional culture, not an official recognition of the origin of culture.
However, it cannot be denied that this fake "cultural dispute" has indeed caused some management departments. The panic has made great progress in the protection of intangible cultural heritage in China over the years. A closer look at the interest chain behind the "cultural war" shows that there are also beneficiaries, namely those departments and institutions in charge of cultural heritage protection. They want to use a hypothetical "culture war" to promote the protection of domestic cultural heritage. Therefore, the sense of competition in the economic field is introduced to the identification of the origin of culture.
Culture is the most important thing. The main feature is inclusiveness. The development of any great cultural form will never be limited to one region. This is true for the values ??and ideas behind a cultural form such as ancient Greek culture, Christianity, Buddhism, and Confucian culture. If resources adapt to the needs of history, they will naturally take root in various places. A strong culture relies on the integration of other cultures to show strength, not on how strong you are in origin. , no matter how pure its origin is, it is still a weak culture after being lost in today’s people’s lives.
I think the so-called cultural dispute between China and South Korea has always been regarded by Chinese academic circles. A folk farce, few scholars participate in this debate. Anyone with a modicum of historical knowledge would not participate in this debate. China and South Korea have a deep historical connection. Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, China has had a history of colonizing South Korea. Therefore, it is a normal mentality for some Korean scholars to want to use some cultural methods to strip away the colonial elements in culture in the contemporary era. But history cannot be changed after all. In particular, China has always had a tradition of revising history and is the country with the most continuous and complete history preservation in the world. It is almost impossible to change people's certain historical perceptions in such a culture.
This is an era of cultural diversity. Tolerantly viewing various international cultural phenomena is also the cultural attitude that a big country should have. Tolerance not only means that society can tolerate a variety of different voices without fear of suppression; it also means that people no longer use various extreme views to treat cultural phenomena that they do not understand.
Only by building this kind of cultural psychology of tolerance can the national mood not appear so fickle, narrow-minded and short-sighted. Tolerance does not mean loss of vitality, but more rational thinking about cultural phenomena, less hatred and hostility, and more understanding and warmth. Only in this way can media resources be used on issues worthy of criticism, instead of engaging in boring wars of words like the "China-South Korea cultural dispute."
The questioner’s follow-up question 2010-08-10 20:09
You know this is a topic I am doing, and I can’t change it ~ Although there is no dispute in China, as the Dragon Boat Festival People living on the birthplace of this culture should do something when faced with other people's competition for our culture. The main purpose of this topic is to inspire the Chinese people's awareness of protecting traditional culture, and it has no other profound significance.
Answer's Supplement 2010-08-10 20:13 Strengthen the awareness of the protection of Chinese traditional culture. China's traditional culture has a long history, so what is China's traditional culture? "Traditional culture" refers to the way of human existence and enjoyment of life that existed and happened in the history of civilization
and is remembered today,
as well as those that are still remembered today. The above-mentioned survival methods and survival pleasures are followed or modified or developed. With the impact of Western culture on Chinese traditional culture, the "traditional culture" that exists today has either been ignored or has been cloaked in the guise of modern civilization. After feeling the profoundness of our country's tradition, should we think more about it?
How should we protect our current traditional culture?
While South Korea is developing its economy, it should not forget to The national cultural heritage is protected as "intangible cultural property".
Compared to the extent of cultural protection in South Korea, we are ashamed, and other countries are preparing to use the "Dragon Boat Festival" as cultural heritage
When we applied for protection from UNESCO, we exclaimed that this is our festival, how could it be usurped by other countries?
We cannot be passive in protecting traditional culture. , we can’t wait for other countries to pay attention to a certain festival
before we panic, then search for historical information and tell others that this belongs to us. Everyone on the earth knows it, you know
< p>What's the use of the road? Whoever declares it first belongs to him. Who has time to prove from Shen Nian's information that it belongs to you?Just like others' silence on their own patents many years ago, I The trademark that has been used for many years can no longer be used. The reason is that others registered it before us. It is protected by the law. So what if we are beating our chests and feet? The main reason is that we must have protection in our minds. own consciousness.
We have many cultural traditions, which require people across the country to take active actions to protect and value them