The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
Cultural destruction of Korean Cheng-Zhu school
It was Korea which is made a divine favor god to the Christianity in today, but on the other hand it was the liking of thought unique.
To understand the essence of the Korean people, it is first necessary to recognize that Korea is a Confucian nation.
In that case to be careful, Korea is not a Confucius faction Confucian nation or a Mencius Confucian nation.
It says that it is Confucianism country of thoroughly, Cheng–Zhu school.
Confucianism has a variety of sects as well as other religions.
When thinking that the Korea is Confucianism country of Confucius faction, it makes the mistake to think that Ireland is Protestant's country.
Cheng-Zhu school is strong in the exclusiveness originally in Confucianism which Cheng-Zhu of Song dynasty made.
At the time, the northern race was attacking, and in the southern China where Cheng-Zhu lives, the people worshiped Taoism and was funeral at Buddhism.
Cheng-Zhu school asserts that all of them are heresy, Confucianism is the path of righteousness.
Cheng - Zhu school spread in the Edo period, Ito Jinsai of Confucian etc. at the age of 29 trying to digest this, it became social withdrawal, eight years later came to the world and opened a cram school.
When the disciple asked 'Teacher, what is Ren (Confucianism)?' he said that 'it is sincere and honest to be in contact with people.'
‘What is compassion?’ he said, ‘In the kindness, it should be kind.’
For the most important ‘Li (Neo-Confucianism)’ in Cheng-Zhu school, he returned as ‘the sun.’
Do not distinguish legitimate or heretics in Japan.
Shinto and Buddhism join splendidly, and now we give wedding ceremonies in Christian style.
The Confucians of Edo were also tolerance.
Meanwhile, in Korea we abandoned Buddhism which caused the decline of the Goryeo dynasty, and accepted Confucianism of Cheng-Zhu school centered on Chinese 'Li (Confucianism)' all the way from the 15th century and started practicing it.
The process is not an optimistic that Koreans interpret Confucianism naturally as a good custom in today, it is the act of man, which was compulsory and was thought edification that the violence reaches a direct body and was exclusive society remodeling.
One day, suddenly arrest official came and saying that he is not serving his parents A three-year mourning can hit him with a club.
If you lay the bones of your family to find a good graveyard, all those family members will be sent as isolated island as those who do not perform funeral.
A good woman does not serve in two husbands,
women should have moderate morals are forced, according to customs of the previous dynasty Women who were married after mourning their husband were caught and tortured
The widow's remarriage did not come true until 1894 when the reform took effect.
Merchants and others were treated as secularists who treat their body in a turbulent age and looking for profit, which was suppressed every time.
Shops and the like were forbidden except for privileged merchants of the dynasty purveyor, and until the beginning of the 20th century the prohibition was not solved.
And since thoroughly denied Buddhism, shamans and monks who had been responsible for traditional funeral services and invocation of the dead were repulsed and expelled from Seoul, wandering around the fields and mountains, etc., except for those who become laborers of civil engineering works It was punished as a bandit.
Until the end of the 19th century, monks in Korea were treated as lowly people and were not allowed to enter Seoul.
This draft continues.
