With the transmission and development of culture, Chinese culture and Korean culture are similar in many places, and their customs are also similar. One I know is the Korean New Year custom and the Chinese New Year custom. During the Spring Festival of Koreans, most of them focus on worshiping their ancestors. During the Spring Festival of our Chinese people, we worship our ancestors and at the same time pay New Year greetings to our relatives and express our best wishes for the new year. From this aspect, we are much purer than Koreans. A good wish for the coming year. At the same time, Koreans celebrate the Spring Festival on August 15th, which is their main holiday and is equivalent to the Spring Festival. The Chinese Spring Festival falls on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and there is also New Year's Eve.
The customs of celebrating the Spring Festival in South Korea and China are also relatively similar. During the Chinese New Year, everyone will go home to celebrate the Reunion Year. Family members rush back from various places to have New Year’s Eve dinner. Women in the family will prepare sumptuous dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner. Among them, we Chinese mainly eat glutinous rice balls or dumplings during the Chinese New Year, while Koreans mainly drink rice cake soup during the Chinese New Year. After eating the New Year's Eve dinner, South Korea and China keep up the New Year's Eve, but now fewer and fewer South Koreans keep up the New Year's Eve. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Koreans will visit the tablets of their ancestors and perform ancestor worship to express their reverence and respect for their ancestors.
Chinese people burn incense to their ancestors on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, but most ancestor worship activities in China take place during the Lantern Festival. No matter in Korea or China, on the first day of the new year, younger generations need to pay New Year greetings to their elders, and the elders will give new year's money to the younger ones. Chinese elders usually give lucky money to unmarried juniors or children, and put the lucky money under the pillow to keep them safe. In Korea, lucky money is usually given to children of relatives. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, both Korea and China will wear new clothes and put up window grilles with couplets. So from this point of view, there are still many similarities between Korean and Chinese cultures.
However, due to international relations in recent years, the relationship between South Korea and China has been relatively tense, and China has also issued restrictions on South Korea. Because whether it is political or economic, our country's interests and dignity have been violated and challenged. Before the founding of our country, our country had been suffering from land invasion. However, since the development of the times, our country has now suffered from cultural invasion and plunder. We need to know that all cultures cannot be tolerated under the excuse of pop culture and cultural export. While we lament the development of cultural exchanges and cultural exports, we need to protect our country's culture from being invaded. The country needs to establish relevant departments on cultural export issues. Cultural exchanges are important, but we need to guard our country's culture and not be swept away by trendy culture. influence, ignoring the national culture behind it.