After the abolition of Chinese characters, how did South Korea write Spring Festival couplets?

Updated on culture 2024-06-28
20 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    When Chinese characters were abolished in South Korea, the Spring Festival couplets in South Korea were generally boring, and the characters written were all learned before. Moreover, people who can write Spring Festival couplets in South Korea are generally very culturally rich. After all, only such people can write beautiful kanji.

    And because of the development of information exchange and the development of industry, Koreans will go to shopping malls to buy handwritten couplets before the Chinese New Year. <>

    We all know that Chinese characters are particularly beautiful, and the culture behind Chinese characters is also very rich, and can be connected into a series of words, such as poems, Spring Festival couplets, etc., which are very beautiful. Reading it feels like a spring breeze blowing on the face with the fragrance of grass, and the sun is lazily sprinkled on people's bodies, making people feel warm and comfortable, and experiencing the beauty of Chinese characters, which is beyond the reach of any other country's language. Therefore, when Chinese characters were abolished in South Korea, they already had the traditional habit of pasting couplets during the Spring Festival, so they had to find some elderly people with cultural background or cultural people who were well versed in Chinese culture and could write beautiful Chinese characters to write couplets.

    Koreans have abolished Chinese characters, but their couplets continue the tradition of writing them in Chinese characters. But many of today's couplets are carved out according to a template. Because in Korea, there are very few people who can write Chinese characters anymore, and they have all learned their own language and script, so they have given up Chinese Chinese characters.

    Only some elderly people who still love Chinese culture, or have studied Chinese culture before, will write couplets. Korean couplets are generally only four words, which is relatively rare compared to Chinese couplets with seven or eleven words, and the four words are generally idioms that express some blessings for the New Year. But there is also a tradition that has been carried on in Korea, and the couplets are used on white paper instead of red paper in Korea.

    And nowadays, handwritten couplets in Korea are not so popular, and many people can't write them, so they will buy them during the Chinese New Year. It is printed like a handwritten couplet, and it can have the same meaning when pasted, and it can also save a lot of trouble, and it can send your own New Year blessings.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    Korean Spring Festival couplets are generally found to some old people who can write Chinese characters to write Spring Festival couplets, and the content of Spring Festival couplets is relatively fixed.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    Since the abolition of Chinese characters in Korea, few people have created couplets, which are generally completed by some educated elders in the village, and their ability to write sentences is fixed.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    Korean Spring Festival couplets are generally written by educated old people, and the words written on them are relatively fixed and traditional, and there are not many words used.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    As a member of the Han cultural circle, South Korea, like China, also writes Spring Festival couplets during the Chinese New Year. South Korea has abolished Chinese characters, is it written in Korean to write Spring Festival couplets? The answer is no, they still write in Chinese.

    In fact, South Korea has been using Chinese for thousands of years, but for a long time, South Korea was a country with only its own language but no national script.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    After the abolition of Chinese characters, Korean people still use Chinese characters when writing Spring Festival couplets, because Korean characters cannot correctly express the meaning of those words.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    During the Spring Festival, couplets must be pasted, both in China and South Korea. However, South Korea has abolished Chinese characters. How can they write couplets? In fact, although Korean characters have been abolished, they are still written in Chinese characters!

    As a member of the Chinese cultural circle, South Korea, like China, also has to write Spring Festival couplets during the Chinese New Year. South Korea has abolished Chinese characters. Is it written in Korean to write Spring Festival couplets? The answer is no, they still write in Chinese.

    In fact, the Chinese language has been spoken in Korea for thousands of years, but for a long time, Korea was a country with only its own language and no national script. Around the 3rd century AD, Chinese characters were introduced to Korea, and later the phonetic meaning of Chinese characters was used to record the Korean Chinese language, that is, the official reading.

    Due to the influence of the feudal social hierarchy, most of the people who were able to learn and use Chinese characters were from the aristocratic class, which was difficult for ordinary people to access. Some official reading texts are created by Chinese characters that do not fit into the phonetic system and grammatical structure of Chinese, so it is sometimes difficult to accurately label Chinese. Therefore, people at that time very much wanted to have a script that was suitable for the reform of the Korean Chinese phonetic system and grammatical structure, and was easy to learn.

    Therefore, at the initiative of the Korean rulers, a group of outstanding scholars such as Zheng Linzhi, Shen, Choi Heng, and Cheng Sanwen created the 28-letter Korean script in 1444 on the basis of years of studying Korean phonology and some foreign characters in Naheso.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    I hope my answer is helpful to you, thank you!! In the past, the standard Korean script was written with Chinese characters in the Hanmon folder. Later, after the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, it was stipulated that Chinese characters would no longer be used, so in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, Chinese characters were not allowed to be used, except for calligraphy.

    In the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, Chinese characters can still be used in the standard script because of the continuation of traditional customs.

    However, there are also simplified Chinese characters used in Korea, and the simplified form is the same as the simplified form of the Japanese Chinese characters.

    Now in Korea, in general, Koreans use Chinese characters on the following occasions:

    1.When acting in costume dramas. If the audience is careful, it is not difficult to find that the inscriptions on the Korean in costume dramas, especially the screens used in the palace, are all in Chinese, and when writing, if it is before 1444, it is in Chinese characters, and after that, it is in Korean.

    2.In Chinese at store openings and funeral ceremonies. When the store opened, a large flower basket was given by someone else, with a note written in Chinese characters; The elegiac couplets written at the funeral ceremony were written in Chinese.

    3.Some Korean products sometimes have individual Chinese characters on their labels, because Chinese characters have a strong influence in Korea.

    4.In daily life, when writing calligraphy, Chinese characters are sometimes used.

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    China has a tradition of up and down 5,000 years, and if you are not familiar with Chinese history, you are learning in the interval.

  10. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    To put it simply, the Spring Festival couplets are Chinese, so no matter which country writes the Spring Festival couplets, it must use Chinese characters. Got it?

  11. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    Please note the distinction between "Hanji" and "Hanyu", Kanji ≠ Chinese, thank you.

  12. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Koreans, like us Chinese, are deeply influenced by Chinese civilization, so many cultural customs are the same. But South Korea has abolished Chinese characters for nearly 50 years, but they still use Chinese characters as Spring Festival couplets. It isBecause Chinese characters have a sense of beauty in form, such a sense of beauty can show the meaning of the Spring Festival couplets

    And they are generally written on white paper, unlike our couplets, which are all red paper. Many of the couplets are intended to express their wishes for the well-being of their families and the stability of the country. Therefore, Chinese characters can be expressed more directly.

    But in Korea, there are not many people who can write a good Chinese character technique. Most of these people are also concentrated in the elderly, because they are more influenced by the culture of Chinese characters, and many young people are illiterate. Like us, they will celebrate the Spring Festival, but their Spring Festival is not the day of the New Year, but the day of the beginning of spring, because spring is the season when all things grow.

    Koreans generally refer to the Spring Festival as "New Year's Day" and "New Year's Day", which represents the beginning of a new year.

  13. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    Because the Spring Festival is passed from China, it is a traditional custom in China, and when it comes to China's traditional customs, it is necessary to use Chinese characters to write Spring Festival couplets, that is, Chinese characters, so that it will appear to have a New Year's flavor.

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    Because these Koreans think that Chinese characters are a tradition that they once had, they continue to pass on the ancient traditions.

  15. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    Although South Korea has abolished Chinese characters for more than 50 years, they do need to use Chinese characters to write Spring Festival couplets, in fact, this is also the time that South Korea has been influenced by our Han culture for too long, and it can't be changed at all for a while.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    It is because the form of pasting Spring Festival couplets is a traditional habit left over from our country. The origin of Chinese characters goes back a long way, and we all use them today. Moreover, the Spring Festival couplets can express the prospect of a new year of filial piety.

  17. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    As the beginning of the Spring Festival approaches, Korean Confucian scholars gather together, dress in hanbok, and write "Beginning of Spring Posts" (equivalent to Chinese Spring Festival couplets) with a brush to pray for a good year and express their blessings for the health of their families and the stability of the country.

    As the first of the 24 solar terms, the beginning of spring means that spring has arrived. In Korea, the beginning of spring has been regarded as the beginning of a new year's farming activities, and in Korea, it is regarded as a day of hope. On this day, Koreans have the custom of sticking Spring Festival couplets.

    As a close neighbor of China and a friendly country with frequent exchanges, South Korea also has a tradition of celebrating the Spring Festival. Unlike China, South Korea posts spring posts are posted on the day of the beginning of spring, and they must be posted at the exact time of the beginning of spring. Unlike China, which likes red Spring Festival couplets, Korean Spring Festival posters are usually written on white slips of paper.

    Why are Korean couplets white? Because the Korean nation has a special affection for white. Koreans believe that white symbolizes purity, whether it is a wedding invitation or a New Year's red envelope, it is all white.

    According to historical records, after King Wu destroyed the Shang, Jizi immigrated to the Korean Peninsula with a part of the people, and the Dongyi people were still white, and with the development of the times, the Koreans still retained the customs of Dongyi Shangbai. The Korean people are also known as the "white-clothed people".

    In the past, the post was a popular custom among the upper class of Korean society, and it was only then that it was passed down to the people. Although Korean is now widely read in Korea, the Beginning of Spring is still written in Chinese characters. Now the most common is "the beginning of spring, Jianyang is more celebrated", and most of the people post these two sentences.

    On the day of the beginning of spring, Koreans put good wishes and auspicious words for the future on the gates and pillars, and post Spring Festival couplets in traditional houses. Pray for a year of good weather and family happiness.

    As one of the "24 solar terms", the beginning of spring, like the beginning of summer, the beginning of autumn, and the beginning of winter, reflects the change of the four seasons of the year. Since the Qin Dynasty, China has always taken the beginning of spring as the beginning of spring. The beginning of spring means that the winter when everything is closed has passed, and it has begun to enter the spring when the wind and the sun are warm and everything grows.

    Different from the New Spring Festival that modern people attach importance to, before the Qin and Han dynasties, the emphasis on etiquette was not the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, but the beginning of spring. Major worship to the gods and ancestors, blessings and prayers, exorcism of evil spirits, removal of the old and cloth of the new, spring greeting and farming celebrations are all arranged on the beginning of spring and the days before and after, this series of festivals not only constitute the framework of the first festival of the later generations, but also its folk function has been preserved to this day. Therefore, the Korean Han Lichun celebrates the Spring Festival as not their invention, but just follows the traditional Chinese tradition.

  18. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    Korea was originally a vassal of China, so their writing and language were previously in Chinese, and it was normal to write Spring Festival Lian in Chinese characters.

  19. Anonymous users2024-01-25

    Koreans also celebrate the Spring Festival, but their Spring Festival couplets are "black and white", which is why.

  20. Anonymous users2024-01-24

    The influence of the time-honored Chinese culture on Korea is very significant, including the use of Chinese characters before the invention of writing, and the folk practice of sticking Spring Festival couplets is also introduced from China. Chinese characters, which have existed for more than 6,000 years, are regarded as one of the oldest scripts in the world, and their emergence has influenced not only China, but also South Korea, Japan and other countries. As for the origin of Chinese characters, it is still unclear how they came to be because they are too old.

    Although it is not possible to clarify the origin of Chinese characters, this does not prevent them from being passed on. Based on the inheritance of Chinese characters, many precious historical classics have been handed down, thus becoming an important way for us to understand history. <>

    Although Chinese characters were created in China, their influence is not limited to China. Historically, Chinese characters were once recognized as the international communication language of East Asian countries, and because of the great influence of Chinese characters, a "Chinese character cultural circle" has also been formed. This cultural circle includes countries such as South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.

    In the case of Korea, the script used today did not appear until the 15th century by King Sejong. Until then, the script used in Korea has always been in Chinese characters, which has been used for more than ten centuries, so many ancient Korean historical books are recorded in Chinese characters. <>

    In addition to the influence of writing, the relationship between Korea and Chinese culture is also reflected in the folk custom of sticking Spring Festival couplets. Although the history of the Spring Festival is not as long as that of Chinese characters, its influence is also very long-lasting, and the Chinese still have the habit of sticking to the Spring Festival to this day. At present, the earliest known Spring Festival couplets were written by a person named Liu Qiuzi during the Tang Dynasty, and the content of the Spring Festival couplets was "the beginning of the three yangs, and the beginning of the four prefaces".

    The "three yangs" mentioned in this actually refer to the beginning of spring. That is to say, since the Tang Dynasty, the ancients would write Spring Festival couplets on the day of the beginning of spring. <>

    When it developed to the Song Dynasty, the custom of sticking Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival also began to appear and gradually became popular. After entering the Ming Dynasty, this folk custom has become very popular, among which the term "Spring Festival couplet" was born in the early years of the Ming Dynasty. During the Tang and Song dynasties, China was so powerful that many neighboring countries became vassal states of China.

    During the Ming Dynasty, China further improved the tributary system, and China's diplomatic exchanges with other countries became more direct and frequent. Based on this social background, many Chinese cultures have also spread to these countries, including the folk culture of sticking Spring Festival couplets.

    The reason why South Korea celebrates the beginning of spring is because the country has been influenced by Chinese culture throughout its history, and this influence has not been eliminated to this day.

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