1. What is the relationship between Hubei and South Korea? There are Chinese, English, Korean and signposts everywhere, but no other text.
In such a remote mountainous area as Badong County , we can actually see guide signs and notice boards in Chinese, English and Korean. It is surprising and rare to see, and it makes people think and explore.
Why is there Korean, but not Japanese, Vietnamese, Malaysian, Thai ?
Badong is a national-level deeply impoverished county. It was only lifted out of poverty in 2020. Although it has certain tourism resources, it mainly relies on its neighboring Shennongjia .
further paid attention to the situation throughout Hubei and found that many places have similar signboards in Chinese, English and Korean. This has become a common phenomenon, which shows that Hubei and South Korea have a close relationship.
Most of the general guide signs in China are in Chinese or bilingual in Chinese and English. In some provinces, due to their borders with neighboring countries and frequent border trade, bilingual signs will appear.
Border areas such as Russia, Vietnam , Laos , Myanmar and other border areas basically use bilingual or trilingual display.
Some places in other provinces also use Chinese, Korean, English and Japanese text prompts. This is mainly directly related to the number of Japanese and Koreans in business, tourism and settlement.
2. The business relationship between South Korea and Hubei ranks behind ASEAN and Japan. Why is it that only South Korea has this treatment?
In 2021, Hubei import and export trade completed a total output value of 537.44 billion yuan, bucking the trend and increasing significantly for two consecutive years. ASEAN, the United States, the EU , Japan, and South Korea were 74.37 billion, 72.16 billion, respectively. 69.45 billion, 40.07 billion, and 29.72 billion yuan, an increase of 34.1%, 26.1%, 16.6%, 7.9%, and 8.2% respectively. South Korea has always been a stable trading partner, and Vietnam, Malaysia , and Thailand are the top three largest trade partners of Hubei in ASEAN. partner.
3. Koreans have fewer people settling in Hubei than Japanese.
The permanent resident population of foreigners in Hubei is 19,000, and the number of Koreans is about 3,000, ranking second after Japan, accounting for 0.25% of the Korean population living in the country. The proportion is low and the absorption capacity is insufficient.
others are the United States, India, France, Canada, Thailand, Singapore , Philippines , and Italy.
Hubei can only barely squeeze into the top ten in attracting foreigners to live in. There is still a lot of room for improvement in this regard, especially Yichang and Shenlongjia .
4. The number of Koreans traveling to Hubei ranks first, twice that of Japan. However, very few Hubei people travel to South Korea.
Foreign tourists entering Hubei According to 2019 data analysis, the total number of tourists was 100,000, accounting for 0.7‰ of the country’s 145 million. South Korea ranked first with more than 40,000 tourists, but only accounted for 0.9% of Koreans’ domestic tourism, followed by the United States with 25,000, and the United States with 25,000. More than 20,000 people visited Japan.
Among the top ten outbound destinations for Hubei people, Thailand ranks first with more than 366,000 people, Vietnam ranks second with 126,000, Japan ranks third with 122,000, followed by Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Cambodia, South Korea, Indonesia , the United States, and South Korea only ranked eighth, failing to form tourism interaction with South Korea.
The number of general tourists matches the economic and trade exchanges and the settled population, but the data on Korean tourism is not consistent with it. Where did these people come to Hubei, and what customs and projects they observed are worthy of further in-depth study. .
Koreans like to live in Beijing, Shandong, Liaoning, Shanghai, Guangdong, Hubei, and Hunan. This corresponds to the Yan, Qi, Chu, Yue, and Korea during the Warring States Period . Is it related to Korean national migration and cultural inheritance? Related, worth thinking about.
If South Korea can replace Vietnam as the main outbound travel destination for Hubei people, it will facilitate economic and trade exchanges and cultural exchanges between the two sides. It will also allow us to study the folk customs of the Korean people at close range, absorb their essence, and study more than 2,000 years ago. The path of the rise of Koreans, what Chinese civilization they inherited, how they continued to improve and carry it forward, learned from each other's strengths, established mutual trust and mutual benefit, and played a good role in promoting it.
5. Hubei and South Korea have many similarities. If there is no historical connection between South Korea and China, I would not believe it anyway.
1. The place names have the same name or are similar to many places in Hubei.
Seoul, the capital of South Korea, was called Seoul before it was renamed. It was called Hanyang in ancient times. Xiangyang , Danyang, Huangzhou, Gangneung, Zhushan , Icheon , Gucheng , etc. also have the same name in many places.
2, Jiang have the same surname, and the mountain has the same name.
Both countries have Dongting Lake, and Hubei and South Korea also have a Han River with the same name. It is a coincidence that the source of the two rivers is called Taibai Mountain, but they are located in different locations in the two countries.
3, customs and culture have more similarities.
Koreans eat cakes, which Hubei people call glutinous rice cakes. Drinking rice wine and eating noodles are exactly the same as our Central Plains and Northern diet;
South Korea has Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival , which is similar to the Dragon Boat Festival that originated from the Chu culture in Hubei. festivals are also very similar, but the way of the festival is different. At the same time, both places have mugwort festivals. In China, these two traditions have become national customs;
South Korea’s national flag pattern is Tai Chi Bagua, which is very similar to our Taoism . Legend has it that the ancestor is a bear, which is exactly He has the same surname as Chuguo Jun, and Chinese characters are also widely used in Korean.
6. Memories and thoughts about the Dragon Boat Festival and Qu Yuan .
It is customary in China to eat rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, but I don’t know why. I asked some people specifically, but they couldn’t give me the answer, so I had to look it up online.
I will definitely remember the Dragon Boat Festival because it is a holiday. So when eating rice dumplings, I will think of an ancient Chu State man named Qu Yuan who jumped into the Miluo River to his death, and there will be no other deeper memories.
While chewing rice dumplings, even if a tall figure flashed through my mind, I didn’t know the appearance of my ancestors. A blockbuster movie appeared, and I had never seen such a work handed down from ancient times. It was a ritual of worship. However, I have never learned such a set of etiquette to arouse a kind of spiritual power. However, after thinking about it for a long time, I only remembered a sentence in "Li Sao": "The road is so long that it is far away, so I will go up and down to search for it." , I have no impression of anything else. I really doubt whether I have really learned it in the textbook.
wants to experience a series of related customs to deepen the understanding of this spirit. I don’t know where to find them, from basic education, media publicity, cultural works, classic films and television, equipment and architecture, solemn ceremonies, team building instruction, series There is no way to start with customs, abstract things cannot be concreted, and we cannot understand the spirit it contains. Maybe the next generation or the next generation will be more vague or even completely diluted.
7. South Korea’s Dragon Boat Festival has gone through thousands of years of evolution and integration, and every detail still persists in maintaining the simple tradition. In the cultural soil infiltrated by modern Korean style, it tenaciously inherits its spirit and soul.
According to experts and gene sequencing research, Koreans are composed of three parts: Han people, ethnic groups, indigenous ethnic groups, and Mongolian ethnic groups. They are not a single ethnic group. The first two groups make up the majority, and there is not much difference in the number of the two. In the process of development, there is also There is a process of intermarriage with other foreign ethnic groups, which also forms the diversity of Korean culture and the tendency of Chinese culture in some areas.
I watched the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival in South Korea. Although it is similar to some areas in our country, it persists around the main line of tradition and inheritance and remains unchanged for thousands of years. This kind of spirit is really rare.
It mainly uses six forms: sacrifice, drama, body, clothing, eating and washing to reflect this inheritance.
1. Sacrifice refers to worshiping the gods of Daegwallyeong City God and the male and female national teachers, singing worshiping music lyrics, beating gongs and drums, and burning paper to make offerings;
2. Play refers to programs such as witchcraft performances and official slave mask plays, which express stories of struggle for love, equality and freedom, and also imply the spirit of national struggle;
3. Body refers to three traditional Sports events, wrestling , throwing pots with arrows, swings , seem to narrate the process of survival, integration and evolution of this nation, telling future generations not to forget the skills of life and remember the road to the rise of the nation;
4. Wearing means Wearing national costumes throughout the process is completely different from the modern Korean wave we have seen in Korean dramas. It seems to always remind participants to remember their traditional clothes, know where they come from and where they are going, and never forget that they are who ;
5. Eating refers to eating mugwort cakes made from mugwort and drinking rice wine. It requires remembering the hardships and remembering the ancestors. They survived by such a primitive way of life, and their lives cannot be improved. Just forget your roots;
6. Washing is to use the fragrant, green medicinal calamus water to wash the hair. The elders rub and wash the young men and women. It means inheriting the tradition, kindly and blessing, and also represents the change of seasons, warding off diseases and disasters. The effect of;
Although many young people now do not participate every year, they still insist on hundreds of experiences and tireless performances, which requires heartfelt admiration and full enthusiasm to worship the whole process. The performance and the costumes, utensils, rhythm, lyrics, music, and rituals of the people seem simple and traditional, but are also very meticulous and sophisticated. They can withstand repeated scrutiny and aftertaste, leaving a deep impression on people. It is worthy of in-depth study of its evolution process. , to feel the development process of this nation.
8. Comparing the folk customs of Hubei and South Korea, we once again feel the breadth, depth and richness of Chinese civilization, which makes us more confident and proud.
Chu culture, Central Plains culture, and Chinese civilization have a long history. The complex historical inheritance embraces the outstanding characteristics of all ethnic groups and is particularly rich in cultural elements. In the long history, due to various reasons, they have been exiled overseas and formed branches. They share the same roots with us. It is inherited from the origin of the nation and group of people. If you choose one or two at will, you can achieve a race or a country.
Korean culture, customs, memorial ceremonies, festivals, etc. are very similar to those in Hubei and the Central Plains, and mixed with some nomadic elements. They are both inherited, improved and developed, and some are even more original than ours. More original and traditional, more delicate and rigorous and more ritualistic.
Seeing this, my heart is shocked and surging no matter what. It allows us to see that Chinese civilization has such strong vitality, such power of communication, and can be inherited and carried forward in such a way. This kind of Civilization has no power to erase it.
9. Continuously inherit, excavate and improve, and keep pace with the times. In the era of rapid development, we will spread the dazzling Chinese civilization to the world and share the cultural achievements of human development.
South Korea applied for the Dragon Boat Festival as a World Heritage Site and described Qu Yuan and Li Shizhen as Koreans. Both of them were born in Hubei and are closely related to Hubei. Some Korean heritage-listed projects have aroused huge criticism from domestic netizens, and there are also fierce debates on the Internet.
Perhaps Korea and China are indistinguishable from each other. Thousands of years of entanglement can be traced back to the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties or even further. No matter which branch it is, no matter which dynasty it is, and no matter what the reason is, whether it is war or border war, it is the beginning of war. Xinjiang was still in exile. The people who once farmed and weaved together, traded and married each other, and multiplied and multiplied for generations, were complex and long-standing, and it is more appropriate for historians to study them.
In fact, there is no need to panic. Chinese language, Hanfu, Confucius , Lao Tzu , bronze ware and chimes ... It is not who applies for World Heritage that can change the trajectory of history. It truly becomes his. Applying for World Heritage is just a matter of Just a gimmick. Even we ourselves are still constantly researching, exploring, and practicing the essence left by our ancestors. It is even more difficult for peoples who speak other languages to fully understand it.
Chinese civilization belongs to the world. It is inexhaustible and inexhaustible. The world's civilization is also used by China, moving forward in a smooth and flowing manner.
We ourselves must cherish our historical inheritance. The most urgent thing is to calm down and think about whether we have been emphasizing the past for the present and foreign for China over the years. Are we more focused on using foreign for China? We are busy with rapid development and ignore the power of Chinese tradition. When other countries and nations are also quickly We should quickly learn and study the soul treasures left by our ancestors and absorb the essence from them. However, due to our vast territory, large population, and rich culture, with the changes of the times, some excellent achievements have not been inherited well. Some are even lost, let alone carried forward in depth and detail.
Just like when we compare South Korea and Hubei, the Dragon Boat Festival is not as simple as eating two rice dumplings and rowing a dragon boat twice. Dragon boat must be deeply cultivated and persevered in order to penetrate into the hearts of the people, consolidate the foundation, and better integrate and absorb the achievements of world civilization. , truly inherit and carry forward the excellent tradition.
Cultural tracing and bloodline tracing require concreteness, memory, connotation, excavation, inheritance, improvement, development, rituals, and atmosphere. It is not a simple matter, and it requires long-term efforts to pass it on from generation to generation.
digs deeply, explores carefully, bit by bit, is meticulous, has literature and objects, is concrete and vivid, has delicate emotions, and the essence is manifested;
is solemn ceremony, following the rules, admonishing children, and building adult teams, The poems, lyrics, and songs are catchy, and the pictures, texts, movies, and TV shows are absorbed into the brain and heart;
respects the ancestors and customs, and is intertwined with each other. Shang and Zhou Warring States, Emperor Qin and Chu style, Han costumes and Tang rhymes, Song Ci Yuanjie, literary and military strategies, refreshing. .
When looking for him in his hometown, he is understated and the signs are hard to find. It is difficult to condense the power of this kind of root and soul.
Only when it is rooted in the soul and has profound cultural inheritance, as long as the Chinese blood flows in the blood, no matter where it goes, the fallen leaves will return to their roots.
When I think of that situation and feel that atmosphere, I feel like kneeling down to worship, howling and beating my chest. It’s like seeing an ancestor, like being in a family relationship, being warm and inclusive, thinking about it, lingering, how majestic its power will be. grand.
attaches great importance to the discovery, digestion, absorption, popularization and inheritance of traditional culture. Only by gaining the essence can we advance with the times, and only by inheriting it can we innovate and develop. Chinese civilization will surely never fade away and be full of vitality.
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