Why was the "Dragon Boat Festival" robbed by South Korea?

"Dragon Boat Festival" was successfully applied as a cultural heritage by South Korea, which made many people in China feel uncomfortable. However, if you understand the Korean people's cherished cultural traditions, you may understand why China lost this "heritage". When you come into contact with Koreans, the most obvious feeling may be their strong national pride. This sense of pride, on the one hand, comes from the success of the country's economic construction, on the other hand, it comes from the pride of its own history and culture. In fact, Koreans' views on their own culture are even suspected of arrogance in the eyes of foreigners. When a China and a South Korean talk about history, the South Korean people will talk about the Korean people's invention of bronze movable type, the greatest writing Korean, the turtle boat against the Japanese, their great national heroes Li Shunchen and An Zhonggen, and their Oriental Confucius, Mencius, Li Tuixi and Li Ligu. Almost every Korean thinks that Korean culture is the most beautiful and creative culture in the world, and Koreans are the smartest people in the world. Perhaps the self-confidence of Koreans is a bit overdone, but you can't help but admit the success of South Korea in shaping the national spirit by using historical and cultural traditions. China people who have been to South Korea can judge that their moral construction and education are quite successful from their interpersonal relationship and social order-they rarely see security doors and fences in residential buildings, and from their mental outlook. Today, South Korea is a well-deserved "state of etiquette". Confucian tradition plays an obvious role in the economic development of South Korea. With the appearance of the "miracle of Hanjiang River", people gradually began to realize the positive role of Confucian social ethics in social development and progress. Korean intellectuals realize that traditional cultural values and moral norms are helpful to the harmony and unity of the whole society, to mobilize the strength of all the people, and to create the great cause of national rejuvenation. Up to now, "Confucian tradition is an important factor for the rapid development of Korea" has become a knowledge of Korean researchers all over the world. According to the logic of China people, South Korea, which has successfully stepped into modernization, should be a country that has successfully waved goodbye to the past. They should thoroughly eradicate the "feudal culture", thoroughly remould themselves, transform themselves, and "connect" with Europe and America with a brand-new attitude. However, who knows, South Korea has retained so many "feudal" and "backward" traditions that we abandoned. Koreans' enthusiasm for Mid-Autumn Festival surprised many China people who have been to Korea. Mid-Autumn Festival is not a legal holiday in China, and the festive atmosphere is getting weaker and weaker. In South Korea, there will be a three-day holiday to celebrate the whole country. The traffic in South Korea is as tense as that in China and Spring Festival travel rush. All people have to go home to worship their ancestors and thank their ancestors for bringing a bumper harvest. Koreans pay more attention to traditional festivals such as Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival than foreign festivals such as Christmas. In their minds, traditional festivals are "festivals" and foreign festivals are just "fun". Koreans attach great importance to seniority, and parents are still absolute authority at home. Every February and the first day of August, some Koreans go to the Confucian Temple to offer sacrifices to Confucius in the traditional way handed down from China. People wore Confucian crowns and black ancient sacrificial clothes, and bowed respectfully to Confucius and Mencius. China's feudal county schools and academies are now gone, while South Korea still has 281 township schools and 84 academies intact, where they set up the "Loyalty and Filial Education Museum" to carry out academic activities related to Confucianism. In South Korea, up to now, the social morality is still the "eight virtues" put forward by China in the Song Dynasty: "filial piety, faithfulness, courtesy and righteousness, and honesty and shame". In the Yuan Dynasty, China's "Zhu Zi Jia Li" was introduced to North Korea, and it is still the normative basis of Korean family ethics. Who would have thought that after thousands of years of Confucianism was broken in China, it was partially preserved in South Korea. Now, some China scholars need to go to South Korea to feel the charm of Confucianism. Peng Lin, a China scholar, recorded the surprises and scenes he saw in the homes of several Korean scholars during his visit to Korea. Peng Lin visited Kim Dui-jen's home, which has a deep knowledge of Korean traditional culture. The China scholar described in his notes that he was a little surprised that Mr. Kim's home was in a remote mountain village called "Guiba" in Gyeongsangnam-do. Like an ancient hermit, he cultivated 6 mu of farmland by himself. Above the door outside the Jinfu, four characters are written: "Primary School Family". It turns out that Mr. Kim's ancestors were famous Korean Confucians, and he had a good knowledge of primary schools in China. Next to it, there is a plaque inscribed by Mr. Jin himself, which is taken from the meaning of "using heaven and earth" in the Book of Filial Piety. The host entertained Mr. Peng Lin with a Korean-style family dinner. After dinner, the two sides talked about ancient culture, which was very agreeable. Mrs. Kim sang Su Dongpo's "Red Cliff Nostalgia" in ancient ways for China guests. This kind of singing may have been lost in China. "The song is sometimes euphemistic and sometimes violent, and it has a tendency of rushing thousands of miles. After singing, it won a full house. I have never heard such a singing in China. " Then, Mrs. King sang Zhu Xi's Preface to Primary School, and this scholar from China could only cope with the scene with a China folk song on such an occasion. Another scholar visited by Mr. Peng Lin is He Youzhen. In modern Korean society, this gentleman still lives according to ancient rituals, daily life, making friends and entertaining guests, and worshipping ancestors and worshipping ancestors. When his mother died, he kept filial piety for three years according to the ancient ceremony. Every year, during the Four Seasons Festival, he will lead his children and grandchildren to hold family sacrifices, and take this opportunity to tell their children and grandchildren about their ancestors' deeds and educate them to respect their ancestors and not humiliate them. It was the Mid-Autumn Festival when Peng Lin arrived at the Heshi Palace. The day before the sacrifice, Mr. He fasted and bathed. The next morning, I saw that the whole family was busy. Under the auspices of Mr. He, the whole family knelt before the ancestor's throne according to their seniority. The process of sacrifice was exactly the same as offering wine and food to strangers. His eldest son offered wine and recommended meals to his ancestors in sequence, and the time was equivalent to that used by strangers to eat, which lasted for more than an hour. Mr. He always knelt down seriously and respectfully, which is what Confucius said: offering sacrifices as if they were there, offering sacrifices to gods as if they were there. In Korea, there are still colleges that teach in a completely traditional way. For example, the Taitung Classical Research Institute in South Yangzhou, Gyeonggi Province. The courses in this school are mainly four books and five classics. Students must recite the "four books" in the first year like ancient scholars. Mencius is the longest of the "four books" and can recite them twice, about four hours at a time, and everything else must be recited at one time. The way of reading here is completely ancient. When reciting, you recite it by "reciting", with cadence and tone. It is said that only in this way can students master the classics firmly. Perhaps some readers in China will feel as strange and novel as those in the West. You know, one hundred years ago, our ancestors lived like this. Some scholars in the West call South Korea "the living fossil of Confucian countries". In China, the contents recorded in yellowed books are still partially alive in South Korea. There is no doubt that the western strong culture maintains an overwhelming advantage in today's world. It is sweeping the world in its heyday, importing the materialistic world outlook and its by-product nihilism into the brains of people of different colors. In the face of the vigorous challenge of western culture, other cultural ecology seems so weak and vulnerable, such as a rapid decline from the residual flowers: is this also a sad destruction of the cultural ecological balance? And Koreans' trust in their own culture in the process of modernization is respectable. Koreans are not posturing, not out of grandstanding for the rebellious mentality of globalization. The actions of these Korean intellectuals are due to their profound understanding and self-confidence in tradition, as well as their naive and simple personality and persistent style of doing things. Under the background that the tentacles of the towering building high-speed breeding expressway spread everywhere, their persistence has a noble meaning. Koreans have proved to us that traditional culture and modernization are not a life-and-death relationship. Traditional culture is not an obstacle to a nation's progress, but an important driving force for its modernization. Koreans tell us that if a nation wants to live confidently, it must have its own profound confidence, respect its own history and respect its ancestors. Koreans tell us that the modernization of a country is not only material progress, but also spiritual enrichment and satisfaction.