Why do South Korea also use Chinese characters and calligraphy?

Chinese characters and calligraphy are, of course, China's patents. The origin of Chinese characters can be traced back to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. Through the principle of "six characters" (pictographic characters, knowing characters, referring characters, pictographic characters, phonetic symbols, transliteration characters and borrowing characters), Chinese characters have experienced the evolution of fonts such as Oracle Bone Inscriptions, inscriptions on bronze, seal script, official script and regular script, and have been in use ever since. Ancient Korean culture was very backward, and it was within the cultural circle of Chinese characters.

By the time of King Sejong of Korea in 1446, that is, during the Ming Dynasty in China, Korea, as a vassal state of China, had made certain progress in politics, economy, culture, science and technology, and military affairs, so the Korean people had a strong desire to have their own national character. Sejong is very sympathetic to the people's situation. Sejong, as a korean king who wants to develop national culture and promote national independence, began to think hard and dream of creating a unique one.

When Sejong invented Korean characters, he was inspired by music and northern nomadic pinyin characters, and learned that a simple music notation (1234567) can record all the music in the world, so relatively simple pinyin characters should also be able to record all the Korean sounds, thus spelling out Korean characters. Therefore, Sejong organized many outstanding scholars in the "Jixian Hall" in North Korea at that time, including himself, and specially sent a well-known North Korean scholar to China for more than a dozen times to study and learn the essence of Chinese characters. After 30 years, he finally invented and created Korean characters in 1446, so North Korea finally had its own national characters after using China Chinese characters for nearly a thousand years.

King Sejong (14 18- 1450), who is proficient in Confucianism, strongly advocates philosophical concepts other than Confucian values, is well-read and politically astute, and can deal with two types of Korean scholars (two types: Korean scholars who are both' nobles' and' officials' and enjoy high politics. During his reign, he showed positive thoughts in national management, phonetics, nationality, economics, science, music, medicine and humanities research. He established Jixian Hall to promote the study of tradition, politics and economy. One of his most famous achievements is the creation of the Korean alphabet.

It is in this context that "training people in Andrew" came into being. King Sejong wrote in the preface of the announcement: "China characters are based on the history of China, so they can't clearly express the unique context of North and South Korea, and can't fully express the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people. Considering the actual situation of China people, I created these 28 letters (note: after the evolution and merger of letters, modern Korean society only uses 24 letters, two less than 26 English letters, which is recognized by European and American scholars as simplified pinyin). These letters are easy to learn and hope to improve the quality of life of every Korean national. "

As for South Korea's current struggle for the invention right of Chinese characters, it is completely nonsense. Koreans will be punished for being too arrogant.