Chapter 115 The Controversy of Cultural Orthodox

Zeng Lingfeng suddenly felt a little disgusted. He wanted to vomit and said to her: "Discussing this kind of thing with you is really playing the piano for cows. The best ethnic groups in the world are not blown out by themselves, but must be recognized by everyone! For example, many people in South Korea now oppose the use of Chinese characters, so they must use Korean phonetic characters everywhere. I have no objection to this at all. Because from a broad perspective, this is conducive to the development of Korean cultural spirit."

"But the problem is that about 70% of the basic vocabulary in Korean language comes from Chinese, and the use of Chinese characters as written language has a long history. Korean pronunciation has only been more than 500 years. Until the 1970s, Chinese character readings were still everywhere in Korean society. Such forcibly abolishing Chinese characters would cause many words to be confused. When I was in Seoul, I saw many Korean newspapers, especially academic papers. After some vocabulary, Chinese characters were marked with brackets. This means that without Chinese characters, these words would be difficult to understand. For example, artistic conception, Buddhism, decisive battles, argumentation, etc. I think Chinese characters are the same as other languages ​​and characters. It is not that Chinese people can monopolize them. Why do we have to eliminate them completely? The terrible consequences of the elimination of Chinese characters have been pointed out by many Korean scholars, such as breaking history, hardening of thinking, etc. I don't need to say much about it here."

After hearing Zeng Lingfeng's dialect, Song Hye Kyo immediately retorted: "China and South Korea are very close, and the influence between cultures is inevitable. You cannot just think that Korean culture is spread from China. We also have our own cultural traditions and our own ethnic characteristics."

Zeng Lingfeng shook his head and said, "Just like Seoul is changed to Seoul. When Chinese people hear Seoul, they can feel that this is a grand, prosperous, and culturally spiritual capital. But if it is called Seoul, it is different from most Korean place names. If it is necessary to translate it according to the Korean pronunciation, some people will probably say it. The most accurate pronunciation of Seoul is sè合. Although the pronunciation is accurate, it means a secret place in love, which is even worse. Perhaps some people will say it as a bad smell, because when the garbage in Seoul is not cleaned up in time, the streets are filled with a rotten smell of kimchi. So I think it is better not to change the name."

After hearing Zeng Lingfeng's words, Song Hye Kyo was so angry that her nose was almost tilted. She shook her head and walked away angrily. Halfway through the excitement, she sprained one of the heels of her high heels, and walked into her own car barefoot and drove away directly.

Zeng Lingfeng looked at Song Hye Kyo's departure back and laughed: "I have a way, I'll give it a few words to pass it away."

Kim Tae-hee, who was following Zeng Lingfeng, said, "Lingfeng, you are very good at harming others! But I am also a Korean! I am very sad to say that to my motherland."

"Tai Hee, what I said is the truth, you won't refuse to admit it, right?" Zeng Lingfeng replied with a smile.

Kim Tae-hee smiled helplessly. After living in China for so many years, she still entrusts her life to the man in front of her. She has already understood the history of China in a deeper way, and Kim Tae-hee also has a clearer understanding of the Sino-South Korea relations in history.

North Korea and South Korea have been greatly influenced by Chinese culture since ancient times, especially their mainstream culture, all without the imprint of Chinese civilization. They used to read Confucius and Mencius books and use traditional Chinese medicine. They copied the Chinese bureaucratic system, built academies, and implemented the imperial examination to select officials, and some even went directly to China to participate in the imperial examination as officials. They used the Chinese style to build cities and palaces, and their royal court directly used Chinese palace instruments and music. They introduced Buddhism and Taoism from China. They adopted the Chinese calendar to celebrate Chinese festivals.

Everything in China has penetrated into every corner of the lives of North Korea and South Korea.

However, after the Sino-Japanese War, China's national power declined to the bottom, and China's centripetal force against North Korea and South Korea weakened. In addition, the narrow sentiment of national independence and populism after World War II increased, so North Korea and South Korea began to de-Sinicize. One of the measures was to completely abandon it and completely adopt the current Korean language.

But Chinese characters have been deeply engraved into the history and culture of South Korea and are always lingering. The couplets and plaques in their academies and temples are all Chinese characters, and the historical records are also Chinese characters. Even the stone slabs with official Chinese characters such as Zhengyi are engraved on the stone slabs at the foot of the ministers outside the Wangtingyuan. All the characters on cultural relics that have been over a hundred years in the museum are also Chinese characters. It is easy to remove the Chinese characters on newspapers and books, but removing the Chinese characters on these cultural relics is equivalent to erasing Korean history in one stroke.

Kim Tae-hee couldn't help but think of something that made her extremely embarrassed.

During the Spring Festival two years ago, Zeng Lingfeng accompanied her back to Korea and accidentally saw a young man worshiping his ancestors during the Spring Festival. He used printed Chinese characters to worship his ancestors. So Zeng Lingfeng asked the young man if he understood what it meant? The young man shook his head and said he didn't know.

So Zeng Lingfeng asked, since he didn't understand, why did he use it? The young man smiled and refused to answer.

Zeng Lingfeng smiled and said to Kim Tae-hee, who was together, that this young man was a filial junior. If they used Korean to worship their ancestors, how could the ancestors who used Chinese characters know each other? At that time, Kim Tae-hee was so embarrassed that she almost dug a hole in the ground to hide. While scolding Zeng Lingfeng for being narrow-minded, she had to express her heavy concerns about the current de-sinification of the country.

In other aspects, the influence of Chinese culture in Korea can be seen everywhere. For example, they use chopsticks to eat, eat rice cakes during the Spring Festival, eat buns and noodles during the Dragon Boat Festival, and drink Chinese medicine tonic. Some words in Korean are taken directly from Chinese characters, names and Chinese characters, and even their national flags are taken from Chinese Yin and Yang Bagua, but they have not learned all, and only use four hexagrams.

China's culture, philosophy, values ​​and ways of thinking have penetrated into the bone marrow of Koreans. De-Sinicization is almost impossible. If it is forced to be removed, then South Korea will become unnoticed.

In order to de-Sinicize, Koreans always try to find some Korean specialties on small things. For example, Korean chopsticks are not square-section, but flat, and are mostly made of stainless steel. Unlike Chinese embroidered chopsticks, they just don’t know what they used to eat before the invention of stainless steel?

Another thing is that Koreans say they use spoons to drink soup, while Chinese drink it directly with bowls. In fact, Koreans probably don’t know what the Chinese have used for porcelain spoons for hundreds or even thousands of years? The stupa in South Korea is a stone pagoda, which is different from the brick pagodas in China or the wooden pagodas in Japan. But they don’t know how big China is, and it is adapted to local conditions. There are stone pagodas, brick pagodas, wooden pagodas, earth pagodas, glass pagodas and even metal pagodas such as iron and copper.

Korean culture does have its own uniqueness, but it seems difficult to convince people to choose these trivial things to demonstrate their uniqueness in culture. In the big aspect, everything in Korea is always connected with Chinese culture.

South Korea's economic success in recent decades has made South Korea strive to find its own position in Northeast Asia and even the world. As China becomes increasingly powerful and its international influence is becoming increasingly important, coupled with historical and geographical reasons, South Korea cannot escape the influence of China and Chinese culture. This is a reality that Koreans with extreme nationalist ideas cannot accept but have to accept, and this is also an embarrassment for Koreans today.

De-Sinicization failed, so Koreans had to accept the reality of Chinese culture, which was very cruel to those extreme nationalists in South Korea. So Koreans simply pushed things to the extreme and said that Chinese culture was theirs. This is why the Dragon Boat Festival, Confucius, Chinese medicine and Chinese inventions were all included in South Korea, and even the entire north of China's Yangtze River were included in their territory.

The Koreans' performance in this regard is fully demonstrated in the film and television works produced in their country in recent years, which makes Zeng Lingfeng admire how the Koreans' faces are so thick.

Most of the plots involving Chinese films and TV dramas distort and slander China's history, and the slander of Chinese history by domestic textbooks in South Korea is even better than that of Japan. For a Korean who does not have a very glorious history, the best cover-up is to tamper with history. What Koreans like most is to include the Bohai Kingdom and Goguryeo, which belong to the country created by ethnic minorities in China's border areas, which were once vassal states of China. Forget about robbing other people's history, he also made remarks about China's own historical chronology.

As for many Chinese characters and traces of Chinese culture in Korean films, don’t be happy about it, let alone think that Koreans really like China. In fact, Koreans believe that these cultures are developed in the native North Korea and then passed on to the Central Plains. Haha, that is, they are teachers, so even if there are many traces of Chinese culture on their TV, it is their own business.

For example, Koreans believe that our oracle bone inscriptions were invented by them, Confucius was a Korean, and even Xi Shi was a Korean. The three of China's four major inventions were actually from South Korea, and they also applied for the Dragon Boat Festival to South Korea's world cultural heritage, and other ugly behaviors are endless.

In order to highlight the superiority of their civilization, they said that their ancestor Tan Zong was the teacher of our ancestor Dayu, who taught Dayu to control the flood - hehe, and later even further said that their history was 6,000 years longer than China. The speech of the South Korean president in the World Cup football match was quite polite, saying that it had been 5,000 years, and it was a khan...

Fortunately, the Chinese people of Kazakhstan are not very concerned about history. Others force your history, but they still think it is nothing. They even found more sufficient reasons for themselves Kazakhstan, which is simply unreasonable.
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