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2024년 4월 13일 토요일

The evolution of ideas / Neo-Confucianism and the Korean Peninsula

From a practical point of view, Confucianism, which caused the harmful effects of terrible abolitionism in Korea, has evolved in China, the place of origin.

 

Originally, there were many ideas to correct the difficult and chaotic world of China's Spring and Autumn Warring States Period, of which Confucianism was the most rational and practical. It laid the foundation for centralization and class system, emphasizing Let's protect the national system and save the people and loyalty as its code of conduct.

 

Cho Kwang-yoon, the first king of Song, who founded China's Song Dynasty, saw the Tang Dynasty destroyed by commanders at the periphery, so he made the most of his literary subjects to strengthen centralization and established the Confucian philosophy of Neo-Confucianism to further strengthen royal authority and class society and reduce its practicality. As a result, China's Song Dynasty had a living history of paying tribute to the marginal nomadic peoples of Khitan and Yeojin, and eventually being destroyed by the nomadic peoples of Mongolia.

 

The Khitan, who had been offered tributes to the Song Dynasty, failed to invade Goryeo, the Korean dynasty, and the aftershock was very afraid of Goryeo's perfect defense posture. However, at the end of the Goryeo Dynasty, there were many new noble peers who studied Neo-Confucianism from the Song Dynasty, and they became the foundation of the founding of Joseon. Joseon therefore maintained its royal authority for a long time based on stronger centralization and weakened practicality before going out of business.

 

However, during the Ming Dynasty in China, Neo-Confucianism developed into Yangmingism that emphasized knowing and working must be combined and gradually gained practicality. Then, during the Qing Dynasty, which was founded by the nomadic Manchu (Yeojin), it evolved into a historical study that emphasized Seek truth based on facts according to the atmosphere of the time.

 

Kang-Hside, the Accompiled King of the Qing Dynasty, studied science and technology by honing his own martial arts. After Kang-Hside, the Qing Dynasty spent its heyday until Ongjeongje and Qianlongje, and was assimilated into the Han Chinese, an absolute majority and not very robust ethnic group, and went on a path of closure.

 

Later, the actual truth-finding idea of the Qing Dynasty entered Joseon in Korea and was studied as a practical study called practical study to reform the irrational and ideological Joseon society. However, Joseon, where Neo-Confucianism was so deeply rooted in society, persistently maintained a stubborn Neo-Confucian class society that was not shaken by any wind. Nevertheless, scientific monarchs of Joseon, such as Sejong, sometimes passed down great legacies to their descendants, such as making Hangul.

 

Zhou Enlai, who later reformed Mao Zedong's disastrous Chinese Communist Party, played a major role in understanding this historical background, demonstrating due diligence, and reforming it into today's China.

 

However, there has been a movement in Korea to change into an irrational Korea by transforming it into an ideological or religious form without overcoming the classism, centralization, and conservatism of Neo-Confucianism. The Korean people and politicians must be awakened. I had a very interesting experience watching a drama about the war between the Khitan and Goryeo in Korea these days. It can be said that Goryeo was a unified Korea, and it has many implications for the divided Korean Peninsula, swayed by unrealistic mouths and ideas.

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