한중 문화충돌 서막, 단오 논쟁의 교류사적 의미

Abstract

Around 2000, the Korean-Chinese Dano Festival controversy was sparked amid the craze of Confucianism restoration in mainland China. Strictly speaking, it may seem that the dispute took the form of a cultural struggle between Korea and China on the surface. However, it was an arduous strategy to strengthen internal unity in China, rejecting Western values, and revitalizing traditional Chinese culture. After the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, the frenzy of rejecting Western liberal values and arming with traditional Chinese culture has led to a macroscopic flow of Confucianism revival in the late 1990s. In particular, the debate continued on the Dano Festival to block Westernization towards the future generation of Chinese youth and to establish a Chinese identity. Before and after the Cultural Revolution, the traditional holiday was abolished for the “revolutionary Spring Festival”.The People’s Daily taking the lead in the Dano Festival debate and other public opinions following are similar to the way the traditional holiday was restored. In the end, this debate worked as a driving force to establish a new policy to protect traditional holiday culture for the first time since the founding of the People’s Republic of China. It succeeded in promoting Chinese-centered nationalism in China. Simultaneously, the conflict between Korea and China intensified as it expanded into a new cultural dispute between the two countries. Certainly, the traditional cultural perception of the Chinese called ‘‘gratitude for cultural origins(飮水思源)’’ played a role in this conflic.