How does South Korea introduce the history of China?

The rapid economic growth in China has brought great pressure to Koreans, and their anxiety is also reflected in their attitude towards historical research.

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In South Korea, the history of China has become a prominent school. Even in the field of Korean literature, China's historical theme is regarded as an important creative material. Recently, Chosun Ilbo invested 1 100 million won to set up the "New Wave Literature Award of the Republic of Korea". The first winner is Liu Guangxiu, a lecturer in China Literature Department of Yonsei University. The winning work is the novel "Qin Shihuang Plan".

Moreover, South Korea also wants to extend the study of China's history to the diplomatic field. 165438+1October16, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said that the "Korean Northeast Asia Historical Consortium" which mainly studies the history of territorial disputes should provide objective information and strategies in diplomatic disputes and be renamed as "Historical Diplomatic Consortium" to "prevent textbooks and media around the world from recording or reporting wrong history, thus misleading countries to South Korea.

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President Roh Moo-hyun's move is intended to bring order out of Korean history, but is it that other countries misled Korean history or that South Korea misused the history of other countries?

The study of Korean history is inseparable from China.

It is an indisputable fact that Korean scholars must use China's historical materials on a large scale when doing academic research on history. Because they don't have their own complete and well-established history books, all those involved in ancient history, especially the pre-Qin part, should look for clues about the Korean Peninsula in China's various historical books. This is the only academic way for serious historians in Korea for quite a long time.

Therefore, in South Korea, well-educated historians must be proficient in Chinese and the history of China. The historical ties and cultural entanglements between China and the Korean Peninsula are too deep and wide.

A strange theory about quick profit and approximate profit

But at the same time, in recent years, some Korean scholars have made some sensational so-called "academic research" out of a similar historical anxiety, trying to make the peninsula civilization get rid of the East Asian continent and have stronger independence.

Therefore, they did not put aside China's history, but studied it more deeply in order to find useful information to support his views or arguments. Zheng Zaishu, a professor at Ewha Women's University, recently published a paper on China myth, which is a typical example. He claimed that Yan Di, Chiyou, Kuafu and Fengbo mentioned in China's Classic of Mountains and Seas all appeared in the murals of Koguryo tombs, and many myths and legends originated in Korea.

Obviously, this is that Koreans are satisfying their sense of historical glory in the form of literary and artistic works.

Solve the anxiety in history

Although this kind of works misleading the Korean people's view of history is common, we don't have to be too sensitive about it. Realistically, China's rapid economic growth in the past 30 years has brought great pressure to Koreans. Their feelings for China are complicated: What will be the future of China? What influence will China have on South Korea? What will every Korean get from the development of China? These problems are bothering Koreans.

Because of this, understanding China and China people has become a strong psychological demand for many Koreans. Among them, understanding the history of China and exploring the spiritual and cultural origins of China people is of course the proper meaning in the title. Among the people, the influence of China's history is also universal. China heroes such as Zhang Fei and Guan Yu in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms are familiar to most Koreans, and many common sayings and idioms, such as waiting for him and standing out from the crowd, are also used by them in daily life. For ordinary Koreans, understanding the history of China is almost closely related to daily life. But the question is, what they know is real history or processed history.