What is the historical relationship between Korean culture and Chinese culture?

During the ancient Joseon period, several tribes from the ancient kingdom of Korea migrated to the Korean Peninsula from southern Manchuria. Since then, from the Goguryeo period of the Three Kingdoms period to the unified Silla era, to the Goryeo Dynasty and the Joseon Dynasty, South Korea is a country on the Korean Peninsula that has been deeply influenced by China.

In order to accept the canonization of the Chinese central government and pay regular tribute to the central government, the supreme ruler of North Korea only called himself king and did not dare to call him emperor; only after the decline of Japan and the rule of Korea in the Qing Dynasty did the Chinese central government lose the power to control North Korea.

Korea made iron tools and iron weapons. In terms of politics, economy, philosophy and culture, South Korea's development has also been strongly influenced by China. However, simply understanding cultural exchange cannot fully explain Korean culture.

It is also necessary to correctly understand the various characteristics of the Korean people, which must be explained in conjunction with the historical development of the Korean people.

At the end of the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392), Neo-Confucianism began to attract people's attention and eventually developed into the philosophical thought that dominated the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). It was introduced to Korea during cultural exchanges with the Yuan Dynasty of China.

Extended information:

Korean culture is very obviously influenced by China. As early as the Tang Dynasty, the Silla Kingdom on the Korean Peninsula sent people to China to learn Chinese culture and country-governing strategies. Some things were copied back and then "localized" Absorbed into its own culture, Chinese culture had a long-lasting influence on Silla. Silla also became stronger because of absorbing Chinese culture and unified the Korean Peninsula.

In 1882, the Korean envoys Park Young-hyo and Kim Ok-yun were about to go to Japan. Before leaving, they requested the Qing Dynasty of China to use the Chinese dragon flag as their national flag. The Qing government responded that vassal countries could not use the five-clawed dragon flag and could only use it. Four-clawed dragon flag.

Since the North Korean authorities at that time no longer bought into the declining Qing court, they did not accept the Qing court's request. At that time, Ma Jianzhong, the Chinese envoy to North Korea on the order of Li Hongzhang (a great linguist in modern China who went to North Korea with his brother Ma Xiangbo, the founder of Fudan University) suggested that the North Korean government adopt the traditional Chinese Taigeuk flag as its national flag. This suggestion was adopted by the North Korean government.

Therefore, the earliest Lee Korean flag was an out-and-out Tai Chi Bagua flag with black patterns on a white background.

Later, a British envoy to North Korea made major modifications to this Tai Chi Bagua flag from the perspective of Western cultural aesthetics. He removed the four hexagrams in the Bagua and stretched the remaining four hexagrams diagonally and symmetrically, making the entire flag The pattern is rectangular, and the yin-yang fish pattern is changed to red and blue, so we have the Korean Taegeuk flag we see.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Korean Culture