In this festive Spring Festival, imagine that there are not red and red Spring Festival couplets pasted on your doorstep, but black and white Spring Festival couplets. What would this look like?
Many people mistakenly think that your family is holding a funeral!
Recently, the topic of Spring Festival couplets in Korean funeral customs has become a popular search, and continues to occupy the top position, attracting the attention and comments of many Chinese people: we put Spring Festival couplets on the door, but they use seals.
The style of Korean couplets is very different from our cheerful couplets, they are usually written in black letters on white paper, diagonally attached to the door in the shape of a figure-of-eight, and there are no horizontal batches. It's hard not to get noticed in China, and if it happened in ancient times, the neighborhood might mistakenly think that the family had been beheaded!
In our eyes, such black and white couplets are usually used for funeral ceremonies, which are completely incommensurate with the celebrated Spring Festival. After all.
However, in contrast to our baffled attitude, Koreans consider it their tradition. In their opinion, the black and white color scheme highlights the noble temperament and fits their temperament very well. In addition, they applied this "funeral style" to many festive occasions, such as the traditional lion dance during the Spring Festival and the wreaths given during the blessing ceremony, most of which were themed in black and white, and generally ran through the funeral style.
So, what do netizens think of this "funeral style" in South Korea?
Many netizens think that South Korea often "plagiarizes" Chinese culture, and this time is no exception, but apparently they did not completely imitate it, but made people feel irrelevant!
There are also people who expect people to be rational and respectful of different countries and cultures.
Someone also introduced the reason why South Korea adopted black and white Spring Festival couplets, which really makes people have to admire the wisdom of the ancients!
Our Chinese people may feel a little incomprehensible and even a little uncomfortable about this kind of funeral style Spring Festival couplets in South Korea. But we should also keep an open mind and learn to understand and accept the differences in other cultures. After all, it helps to broaden our horizons and enrich our life experiences.
The world is so wonderful because of diversity.
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