Comparative study on Sino village conventions between Vietnam and Korea

- Village Conventions (Huong Uoc) In Vietnam……………..
- Concept of village conventions (Huong uoc .
- Origin of village conventions in Vietnam .
- The current state of Vietnamese village conventions .
- Village conventions (Huong uoc) in Vietnam.
- Village Conventions In Korea .
- village conventions (Hương ước .
- The current state of village conventions in Korea .
- Morality and behaviour issues in Korea village conventions .
- Confucianism in Korean village conventions .
- Comparison Between Sino-Nom and Sino-Korean Village Conventions .
- The influence of village conventions in the social life .
- Comparative study on Sino village conventions between Vietnam and Korea INTRODUCTION 1.
- Nowadays in Vietnam, we can find a lot of village conventions in Sino, and Sino-Nom (old Vietnamese language).
- Therefore, my study on village conventions follows this culture exchange trend.
- Selecting 10 Sino-Korean village conventions in Choson time (from XV to XX centuries.
- Selecting 10 Sino-Nom village conventions from XVII to XX centuries.
- Chapter I Village conventions (Huong uoc) in Vietnam 1.
- Concept of village conventions (Huong uoc) First of all, we need to understand the concept of administrative unit Huong (village).
- In Vietnam there were different names for Village Conventions (Hương ước).
- Every Vietnamese village before the year of 1945 had their own Sino village conventions.
- Village Conventions were often edited and amended to be suitable to the history development.
- In Sino village conventions in Vietnam there was no trace of Chinese village conventions.
- If the answer is because of the war, it’s only reasonable for village conventions in the XV century.
- This meant village conventions existed in Lê Thánh Tông dynasty.
- This is still an unanswered question of appearance of Vietnamese village conventions.
- This was an important and necessary element to create Vietnamese village conventions.
- Thus, despite different contents, Confucianism idea system oriented all the village conventions.
- This rule was repeated in village conventions later.
- This above analysis proved that Vietnamese village conventions were born in the movement and development of Viet villages.
- The number of village conventions kept in both institutes is over ten thousand.
- including: Village conventions (Khoán làng ) written in 1638.
- All the village conventions kept up to now in Vietnam were written on dó paper (giấy dó, or giấy bản).
- Village conventions (Huong uoc) in Vietnam is the signal of self management in village A Vietnamese proverb: King's laws bends to suit Village customs (Phép Vua thua Lệ làng) stressed on the importance of village customs in comparison with king's laws.
- They were State laws issued by the king and Village customs or village conventions.
- However this event wasn't recorded in village conventions.
- hadn't been mentioned in village conventions in Vietnam.
- Some regulations of banquets and feasts in the wedding, funeral, worship ceremonies were severely mentioned in village conventions.
- This was part of self-management in Vietnamese village conventions.
- The village power was obviously reflected in village conventions.
- Village conventions were a bridge between State and villages.
- A lot of matters related to village activities were found in Vietnamese village conventions.
- Among them, religious belief was the most important content in Vietnamese village conventions.
- opposite to village conventions.1.
- This aimed at emphazising legal value of village conventions.
- Other important contents in village conventions were regulations on banquets and feasts and the seats in the temple.
- Regulations on the behavior and customs were popular in Vietnamese village conventions.
- This was a negative side of self-management in Vietnamese village conventions.
- In contrast, there were a lot of positive points in village conventions.
- Village conventions were legal documents of Viet villages in building and managing villages in the most effective manner.
- In the period of the Government allowed to republish village conventions in the new spirit in order to manage countryside.
- This proved that social significance of village conventions are still inherited and developed.
- Chapter II Village conventions in Korea 1.
- In Korea, Village conventions (Hương ước) covered a large area equivalent to district area in Vietnam.
- For example Tay Nguyen Village conventions were applied for 25 Dien.
- Korean village conventions were collected and published in the book “Triều Tiên thời đại xã hội sử nghiên cứu sử liệu tùng thư.
- Korean village conventions weren’t kept in the villages like in Vietnam.
- In the past there might be some Korean village conventions kept in villages in order to build and maintain village customs.
- Korean village conventions were born in the following periods.
- This is the difference between Vietnamese and Korean Sino village conventions in the way of recording the epoch of the document.
- Besides, respectful attitude to the older was mentioned clearly in the village conventions.
- The evidences above proved that morality in the family, in friendship, neighbourship was the main content in Korean village conventions.
- Regarding to behaviour habits in the community, Korean village conventions stressed on consciousness of maintaining local good customs.
- Confucianism in Korean village conventions.
- Confucianism in Korean village conventions was clearly expressed in the relationship between children and parents, brotherhood, friendship and neighbourship.
- Besides, the way to behave with each other in the community also was regulated in Korean village conventions.
- Loyalty to the King was not mentioned much in Korean village conventions.
- In the foreword of Tây Nguyên village convention, the author wrote: Village conventions were born long time ago.
- The foundation of Korean Confucianism reflected in the village conventions was based on gratefulness to parents which affected other relationships.
- Ritual characteristics were mentioned quite deeply in Korean village conventions.
- Rituals were used to maintain Confucianism in the village, where post-worship feast and village conventions existed.
- They were specifically regulated in all the village conventions.
- Sino-Korean village conventions 1.
- But all the above regulations were different from Korean village conventions.
- Korean village conventions appeared in scholars’ works.
- Thus, in the past and present Korea, village conventions couldn’t be found in every village like in Vietnam.
- The form of documents Both Korean and Vietnamese village conventions were written in Sino.
- This is the main similarity between two kinds of village conventions.
- We can see the number of village conventions written in the XX century is much more.
- This is another reason why the number of Korean village conventions in the XX century is much more than in the past.
- Two Korean Confucian scholars wrote village conventions based on national spirit.
- Their village conventions were consider as Choson conventions.
- The state maintained their rule and management based on following village conventions.
- In the XX, Korean village conventions turned to another period that we mentioned above.
- However, regarding the epoch, Korean village conventions was older than Vietnamese ones.
- Korean Sino village conventions appeared since the XV century.
- This is the basic difference between Vietnamese village conventions and Korean ones.
- Korean village conventions used the Chinese dynasties such as Gia Tĩnh, Cảnh Lịch.
- After village conventions were popularised, they were edited, so they had a lot of epochs.
- There are some reasons for a lot of village conventions in Nguyen dynasty.
- These village conventions had contents suitable to French objectives.
- The authors of village conventions Vietnamese village conventions had no specific author to issue.
- Unlike Vietnamese village conventions issued by the group of village officials, Korean village conventions were written by the village scholars.
- In the XVI, XVII centuries, most of village conventions were issued by 2 authors Lật Cốc tiên sinh and Thoái Khê tiên sinh.
- There was no specific author who issued Vietnamese village conventions.
- The influence of village conventions in the social life In Vietnam nowadays village conventions have kept their values in village life.
- The good points of village conventions were aware and developed in higher level.
- Korean village conventions are interested by researchers only.
- In contrast in Vietnam, village conventions are highly social.
- This is originated from the differences between 2 village conventions we mentioned above