Koreans celebrate the beginning of spring by posting couplets with black characters on white paper. Why are they so keen on Chinese festivals?

Chinese people will put up lanterns every Spring Festival, and every household will put up Spring Festival couplets to increase the festive atmosphere of the festival. Posting Spring Festival couplets is a traditional custom in my country, because the ancients believed that the Nian beast would hurt people on New Year's Eve, and the Nian beast is People are afraid of the color red and loud, so the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets and setting off firecrackers has been handed down. As a neighbor of our country, South Korea has many customs and cultures deeply influenced by our country. For example, they also post couplets during the Spring Festival, but they are just couplets written in black and white.

Why is South Korea so keen on Chinese festivals? The countries surrounding China are deeply influenced by Chinese culture. As an ancient country with a history of civilization, our country has a civilization of five thousand years and a large number of talents. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, hundreds of schools of thought contended, and various thoughts and cultures blended with each other. The influence of culture is very far-reaching. This It has had a great influence on China's neighboring countries such as Japan and South Korea. Both South Korea and Japan have come to China to learn advanced culture. It is not difficult to understand why Chinese characters appear in the texts of South Korea and Japan.

Our country began to post Spring Festival couplets as early as the Five Dynasties period. In the Han Dynasty, the Spring Festival couplets changed somewhat, from white paper to red paper. The custom of posting Spring Festival couplets had been spread to Korea before the Han Dynasty, and it was also regarded as a custom by the locals. pass down. In addition to being influenced by Chinese culture, another main reason why South Korea is so keen on celebrating Chinese festivals is that their people have regarded these festivals as traditional customs and will not change them easily.

Just like many young people like to celebrate Western festivals, such as Christmas and Valentine's Day every year, this is actually the product of cultural collision and exchange. It cannot be said that young people worship foreign countries. This is the inevitable result of cultural spread. The influence is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. As China's neighbor, South Korea will be influenced by each other's culture. In addition to festivals, they also influence each other in terms of diet and clothing trends. For example, our country's sauerkraut is very similar to South Korea's kimchi, but we cannot say that our country's sauerkraut is It’s from Korea, which is obviously wrong.