This study divided pregnancy customs between Korea and China into four parts. Those are the before-child-birth custom, the after-child-birth custom, the custom of bringing up a child and the custom to pray for one's pregnancy. This text will study the...
This study divided pregnancy customs between Korea and China into four parts. Those are the before-child-birth custom, the after-child-birth custom, the custom of bringing up a child and the custom to pray for one's pregnancy. This text will study the pregnancy customs between Korea and China. The aim of this text is to compare the pregnancy customs from the points of society, culture, religion and customs and to try to consider about them.
Because of regional characteristics, there are a lot of differences between Korea and China. However, many similar points exist between the two countries because both of them are under the influence of Confucianism. Although 56 nationalities of China have different characteristics, they also have the common points. So, when we research them, we should pay attention to the common points and analyze the study from the point of macroeconomics.
What is the before-childbirth custom? A married woman, who will have a baby, especial a boy, have to attend a special ceremony before the gestation period. And the custom to pray for one's pregnancy is one of them. Especially, because of being affected by Confucianism, men enjoying higher status than women is more and more serious between Korea and China. In the past, men were more important than women in society, and it is also now. The most important thing throughout married women's lives is to have a heir. Because of this, to have a heir becomes the aim of their lives and a lot of customs and taboos also are following. In the custom to pray for one's pregnancy, the custom about marry, the custom about earnest, the custom about special food and customs about activities and so on, will be searched. Some characteristics in these customs will be collected and analyzed. What's more, the customs about taboos before and after the gestation period, antenatal training, baby prediction and be safe to have a baby and soon are becoming more and more important in the research .
The after-childbirth custom contains the child-birth, several ceremonies and taboos. And the custom of bringing up a child includes many events, praying for baby's healthy, a successful career, a long life and preventing ills. In primitive society, there were a lot of customs and taboos before a baby became a man. A baby's healthy and whether he would have a successful life contacted closed with the customs and taboos. So, the customs and taboos were the centers in the after-childbirth custom. This study gathered and arranged the data about cultural characteristics and traditional customs between Korea and China through the pregnancy customs, so that, it made people understand the traditional customs. And through the analyzes, we can easily understand the differences of culture between the two countries and make clear about the status of men and women. In this study, although most of the customs are not scientific, there also have a part which is scientific. The scientific customs are affecting us and at the same time helping us .