Parsing Of Korean Wine Culture

As human life necessities, food is indispensable in our life. The original human labor is getting food and the nutrition, so we can say that the human civilization comes from the food. In other words, food culture is the foundation of the human history, it provided the matting for the following social development and varied cultural creation, so food culture occupies a very important position in the culture of a nation system.Food contains lots of cultural meaning, with the development of economy, the improvement of the quality of human culture and the change of social environment, the food culture developed very well. Besides, with the development of anthropology, food culture has become a very pertinent research field in the contemporary society. For humans, the role of the food is not limited to satisfy the human hunger level, at the same time, it is also a kind of consumer behavior and consumption of behavior. Through the food culture we can explain the system, values, folk custom, order system, culture of the social. That is, food culture is not only the anthropology research focus on food itself, it devotes itself more to the main body people. At the same time, through the process of the food production and consumption we can insight into a social value system and symbol system. The meaning of the food also contains drink, and the object of this paper is wine, which we often come into contact with.In every society, wine plays an important role in the food culture. Because the wine culture of the society is decided by the material conditions of social and cultural characteristics. So through the wine culture we can learn the cultural characteristics of the society, in other words, wine culture is a window of the social culture.As the same as other nations, the wine culture of the Korean ethnic minority group is very diverse. In daily life we can see the Korean wine culture has two opposite aspects--the positive aspect and negative aspect. But in this paper, the research is not limited to the surface of dichotomy, it focused on the attribute, meaning and symbol system of the wine culture. In view of the society of one-sided understanding of wine culture and bias, the author in this paper will describe that wine culture is a kind of human behavior, a very popular culture, an important social symbol of the social phenomenon and characters. And it also shows the living habits and the important meaning which people have. Wine culture is not a kind of surface phenomenon, it is an important culture closely connected with anthropology, sociology, folklore, history, religion and psychology, so it is a discipline which has very important research value. In this way, in the society of the Korean ethnic minority group, wine is not a simple drink, but a special symbol, it has important meaning and the cultural content, so wine culture is a symbolic medium to understand the culture of the Korean ethnic minority group.In this paper, we took the meaning of culture, the attribute of the cultural, the cultural change theory and the structure theory in anthropology as the background. In the Korean ethnic minority group society, there are many historical literature and the records related to the content of the wine culture. From the perspective of cultural meanings, the wine can serve as a kind of national and ruling class maintain power, strengthen the rule of political means. From the perspective of symbolic meaning, the wine is fusion of media of promoting human and human, and human and god. But with the diplomatic relations between China and South Korea, the integration of the global economy, the Korean ethnic minority group society appeared the structure of the changes, then the wine culture has also had the cultural change. Wine has become the symbol of the order system, become the identity, the position of the media and community confirm media of the ceremony, also become the medium of communication between people and a kind of tool that people can get rid of the tired life, and also become the representative of the health food, plays an important social function.In general, in the Korean ethnic minority group society, wine is a collection of climate, the agricultural environment, economic, scientific development level, religious, cultural complex, embodies the spirit of the nation, so we must analyze the cultural meaning and the cultural change from the historical development of the process, the communication process and the social politics, economy, organization, the concept of the system of the wine.The purpose of this paper is not only to analyze the wine culture of the Korean ethnic minority group, I hope this paper can be a turning point, and provides research methods and ideas which have practical significance, so that in following days, we can carry on the various understanding on all kinds of different other ethnic, social, community cultural.