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Abstract:
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Sino Village conventions were a kind of documents appeared in village life in medieval and modern time in East Asian countries such as Vietnam, China, Korea and Japan. Village conventions were regulations based on local customs about behaviour habits and community social activities in Vietnamese villages or Korean districts. They were rules aimed at building rural society based on Confucian ideas, a legal documents under law, but popularised in village life. Vietnamese village conventions stressed on the importance of self-management in every village while Korean village conventions stressed on morality, behaviour between people. The result of the study will contribute to finding the similarity of culture in the history of two countries, to heightening the mutual understanding, to providing scholars and social researchers of both countries with more evidences, and information on Vietnamese and Korean village traditions, enhancing the relationship between Vietnamese and Korean people. |