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From the inscription to the export of Hallyu culture, how did South Korea encroach on Chinese culture step by step?
South Korea's journey from a thief to a thief: stealing mainland cultural relics from the last century and mainland culture in this century
Recently, a MV of the South Korean girl group IVE has frequently rushed to the hot search, and a large number of Chinese elements are used in the MV, such as Chinese knots, auspicious cloud patterns, banana fans, ink paintings, copper coin patterns, etc., when the female team An Youzhen stood up to promote the MV, Tian shamelessly claimed that these are traditional Korean elements.
This is not the first time that the Korean group has used Chinese elements in the MV "Zhengda Guangming", and their move has attracted Chinese netizens to condemn it online.
From the Dragon Boat Festival in the early days to the costumes of the Ming Dynasty in recent years, how long has the history of South Korea stealing Chinese culture lasted? If you don't check it, you won't know it, and you will be shocked when you check it, South Korea's long process of stealing Chinese culture will definitely surprise you!
1. In the 60s of the last century, South Korea extended its hand to the mainland
The history of Korea is very short, so short that it is like a short story, "brushing it and passing away".
In order to enhance cultural self-confidence, South Korea is not trying to carry forward its own culture, but trying to "prolong" the history of its own country, so that they began to encroach on the history of other countries, and Goguryeo was favored by them.
Goguryeo originated in the Jilin Province of China, and it belongs to neither Chinese nor Korean history, and geographically it is closer to today's Korean People's Republic.
In the 7th century, Goguryeo was destroyed by the combined forces of the Tang Dynasty and Silla, and the Goguryeo people were scattered, and the remnants were all scattered throughout the mainland.
It's just that later, Goryeo destroyed the other two countries and established a unified regime on the Korean Peninsula, in order to put gold on his face, he insisted that he was a descendant of Goguryeo, in fact, Goryeo and Goguryeo are just like the Khitan and Jurchen on the mainland, which have a bit of a relationship, but they can't be confused.
South Korea, on the other hand, inherited this shameless tradition and described Goguryeo as the history of their country.
South Korea insists that Goguryeo is their history, and we won't say anything more, but it shouldn't be, South Korea actually stole mainland cultural relics.
I have to mention one person here, that is the senior director of the Korean Society of Ancient Art, Lee Man-sik.
In the middle of the last century, the Goguryeo tombs were excavated in the northeast of the mainland, and more than 8,000 have been excavated so far, among them, the three-chamber tomb was listed as the first batch of cultural relics protection units by the mainland as early as 1961.
However, there were no artifacts from the Goguryeo period unearthed in Korea, and Korea at that time was not as shameless as it is now, knowing that this thing was not theirs, and did not casually say that it was theirs.
They had long planned to classify Goguryeo as the history of Korea, and they did not plan to let go of these cultural relics.
What should I do if my country doesn't have relics from the Goguryeo period, but China has these things? The easiest way to do this is to steal.
Li Wanzhi paid off the director of the Korean Culture and Art Museum at that time and other high-level officials, and asked them to help him secretly infiltrate China and directly steal the murals in the tomb.
Under the protection of the curator, Li Wanzhi successfully took away the travel map, Qinglong map, Xuanwu map, etc. in the three-chamber tomb, as well as the Fuqin dance music map, Feifeng map, and Baiju picture in the No. 1 tomb of Changchuan, etc., just hearing the names of these murals, it is not difficult to see that Goguryeo and the mainland have far-reaching cultural origins.
Li Wanzhi and others felt that what they could steal was theirs, and what they could not take away could not be left to China, so they violently demolished the murals, resulting in many precious murals left on the mainland being seriously damaged and difficult to repair.
Although the mainland police later found this group of thieves and sentenced the thieves and those traitors, they still couldn't stop those precious murals from flowing abroad.
It was only later that Chinese experts visited South Korea and accidentally found that the Korean museum displayed the murals that had been stolen from the mainland earlier, and after many verifications, it was determined that the murals came from the ancient tombs of Goguryeo on the mainland, and the mainland cultural relics department immediately condemned South Korea and demanded that the other party thoroughly investigate the matter and return the mainland murals.
In 2010, although South Korea launched a special investigation into the matter, it did not mention the stolen cultural relics at all, and even claimed that these were returned to their original owners, and they also adapted the incident into a movie, advocating the spirit of theft as a national spirit, fully demonstrating their shamelessness.
In the history of Goguryeo, both South Korea and North Korea tried in vain to establish Goguryeo as their own history through the application of the World Heritage Site.
However, it is an indisputable fact that the ruins of the royal capital of Goguryeo are located in China, so in 2004, the mainland officially submitted the application materials, and when the Goguryeo royal city was successfully declared by China, Korean netizens directly broke the defense, and shamelessly asked the mainland to "return" to them.
Second, South Korea began to use Hallyu culture to steal Chinese culture
In the 90s of the last century, South Korea began to carry forward the characteristics of its own nation that can sing and dance, and established a large number of entertainment companies.
In the beginning, Hallyu was indeed just a simple soft culture export, but at the end of the 00s, this soft culture export began to deteriorate and became a means for South Korea to steal Chinese culture.
The first step in South Korea's invasion of Chinese culture is not to directly claim that the Chinese culture that appeared in the Korean Wave is Korean traditional culture, but to use "de-sinicization" and describe some traditional Chinese elements as oriental.
In early Korean costume dramas, such as "Dae Jang Geum", the ancient Koreans in the TV series still wore the traditional costumes of their nation, but after 2006, everything began to be different.
In 2009, South Korea broadcast a costume drama "Queen Seondeok", they integrated Chinese elements into their own culture, including a large number of Khitan ethnic patterns, as well as some Hanfu elements, the appearance of chest-length skirts and waist-length skirts, changing the national costumes to four different looks.
At that time, there weren't as many people as there are now, so no one took it seriously.
Because of this, South Korea's practice is even more rampant, and in the 2011 broadcast of "Princess Peace Weight Loss", the princess's style directly plagiarized the style of Miriam Yang and Sammi Cheng in the mainland's 2004 broadcast of "Flowers and Full Moon".
The funny thing is that "Queen Seondeok" was judged by the Seoul Public Prosecutor's Office in South Korea to plagiarize the musical "Queen of Althea - Seondeok" after five years and three trials.
In addition to the little by little temptations in the TV series, South Korea is also de-sinicizing in the MVs of major boy and girl groups, testing the bottom line of the Chinese step by step.
In 2017, the boy band VIXX began their first attempt to release a song called "Peach Garden", the concept of which is "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring" from China.
In the MV, they used a lot of elements such as mountains, water, and peach blossoms, and the members of the group painted Chinese peonies with oil painting techniques on their shoulders, added fan dance performances to the dance, and used Japanese collar culture and tie culture in costumes.
At this time, they have already begun to premeditate the theft of Chinese culture, but because the stealing is not very obvious, plus it is rare for the Korean Wave to combine a unique style of MV, so although some people think that this is like Chinese style, it has not caused widespread discussion.
As we all know, no matter what you watch too much, you will feel weak back, and many people feel tired of watching too many MVs of Korean boy groups, and at this time, the music of Korean groups began to usher in a change.
As a result, after China introduced a ban on South Korea, in the second half of 2020, Korean groups suddenly blew a foreign wind, and Japanese elements slowly disappeared from the MV, and they began to use Chinese elements in large quantities.
But they never admit that these are Chinese elements, and they call them Oriental style, and there are already fans on the Chinese side who have noticed these phenomena, but they are not vigilant, but feel that after integrating Chinese elements, these MVs have become much more advanced, and the discussion has become much higher, and they are happy for their "natal nature" from the bottom of their hearts.
Seeing that Chinese fans did not raise objections, some groups began to directly claim that these were traditional Korean elements, not even saying Oriental style, and directly changed from thieves to thieves.
During this time, the girl group has quoted water sleeve dance, fan dance, and Yangge twisting, EXO member KAI has also introduced Chinese elements in his solo song "peaches", and BTS member Min Yuqi, who has occupied a place in the European and American markets, also used Chinese elements in the MV of "Big Blow".
These combinations used Chinese elements to increase their own popularity, and at the same time promoted the music video to the world, brainwashing people around the world that these are traditional Korean elements.
Their wolf ambitions are obvious, the Chinese market is not important, and the people of the world think that the Chinese element is the most important thing because of the Korean element.
Finally, some people began to react, South Korea is stealing culture!
3. Over the years, the Chinese culture that has been stolen by South Korea
South Korea's stealing of culture was careful to desensitize China at first, but as more and more Chinese culture was successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List by South Korea, their stealing began to be revealed.
It can be said that South Korea's way of stealing Chinese culture has formed its own set of ways, first using the inscription to invade the culture, and then using the Korean wave to export Chinese elements are all concepts of Korean traditional culture.
So, what cultures has South Korea invaded on the mainland in recent years?
The first is the Dragon Boat Festival, which ignites the war between China and South Korea.
In 2005, South Korea successfully applied for the "Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival", and the country exploded, thinking that it was stealing the culture of the mainland.
Some people came forward to explain that the Dragon Boat Festival just collided with the Dragon Boat Festival on the same day, but it is actually different in nature, for example, South Korea's World Heritage application is "The Gangneung Danoje Festival", which is different from the Dragon Boat Festival in the mainland.
Some people have suggested that the customs of the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival include drinking realgar wine, hanging calamus, mugwort leaves, etc., as well as traditional culture such as dragon boat racing, while the Dragon Boat Festival in South Korea includes swinging, tug-of-war, wrestling, Chinese poetry creation, etc., only some of them borrow from Chinese culture.
In 2006, China's Dragon Boat Festival was also successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List, and at first glance, it seems that South Korea has not succeeded in encroaching on mainland culture.
But think about it, the mainland actually began to apply for the Dragon Boat Festival in 2003, but the Korean Dragon Boat Festival took the lead in occupying the pronunciation of "Dragon Boat Festival" in English pronunciation, while on the Chinese side, the international community thinks that our Dragon Boat Festival is the Dragon Boat Festival, and the title of the Dragon Boat Festival has been deceived by South Korea.
South Korea began its own riot operation, and also tried to apply for the World Heritage of Chinese characters and the four major inventions, this shameless act was naturally seen through by the United Nations at a glance, and these applications were naturally unsuccessful.
But South Korea's riotous operation does not stop there.
In the 00s, South Korea traveled to Zigong, Sichuan, and found that the lanterns made in Zigong can be said to be quite exquisite, so they began to use the name of cultural exchanges between China and South Korea, so that the craftsmen of Zigong taught South Korea to make lanterns.
As a result, Zigong's lanterns have become a traditional craft in Korea internationally.
It took three years for the Chinese to successfully apply for the Dragon Boat Festival, while South Korea succeeded in applying for the World Heritage as soon as it was noted, mainly because there are Korean representatives in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and it is no wonder that the mainland's cultural heritage application is a long road.
In addition, South Korea's successful application for World Heritage includes tug-of-war, Confucian colleges, ondol, acupuncture, falconry, danqing, and a copy of the mainland's medical classics, the "Eastern Medicine Baojian", etc., Chinese culture is being encroached upon by this group of shameless neighbors.
In the last year, they have begun to say that the northern part of China was once the territory of South Korea, that is, the main purpose of their inscription is to embezzle history and try to describe Chinese history as Korean history.
Chinese netizens have a very good point, embezzlement a little bit or two, that is called cultural encroachment, and the overall absorption is sinicization, South Korea is now slowly sinicizing, and it has begun to lose its own national characteristics.
There is no shortage of people of insight in South Korea who have begun to call for the protection of their own traditional culture, but South Korea has now copied it and simply ignored the appeals of these experts.
However, their initiative to sinicize does not mean that we should let their shameless acts go unchecked in the international community, and China's traditional culture must be branded with China.