It is commonly accepted that Chinese people estabhshed their creative thoughts such as Neo--Confucianism and Zen Buddhism which were the mixed products of Indian and Chinese religious traditions. Korea imported these thoughts from China with fever. What is interesting at this moment is that only Korean people preserve and practice these traditions in their daily lives. It is not easy to find the traces of these two thoughts in everyday live~ of Chinese people in these days. In Korea, Buddhist monks are still practicing Buddhist ritual system of Tang Dynasty which were obviously extinct in mainland China. Also, it is only Koreans who are still following Zhuxi＇s way of everyday rituals such as wedding ceremony, funeral service and ancestral worship rite. It is extremely hard to find such styles of religious rites in China these day. It is the purpose of this article to view China and Korea which are the creative inventor and progressive preserver of these two traditions respectively.%中国将自身的固有思想和印度思想融合后,产生了禅宗和新儒学两种创造性的宗教思想。韩国狂热地接受了这两种思想。不过有趣的是,这两种思想的痕迹在中国人的日常生活中已经难觅踪迹,而在韩国人的日常生活中却能够轻易找到。可以说在理论和实践方面依然保存着这两种思想的国家大概在全世界也只有韩国了。例如,现在韩国的僧侣还在沿用中国唐朝时僧侣背诵的礼法文,普通韩国人举行婚礼、葬礼和祭祀时依然遵循中国的朱子家礼。与此形成对照的是,现在在中国人身上已经很难找到这些旧习俗的痕迹了。
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