Egyptian Korean essays

Egyptian Korean essays Everyone wants to have eternal life. From ancient Egyptians to generations now days, people feared mysterious world after death and tried hard to extend their life time. However throughout the history, people realized that death is something everyone has to face, and that there is no way to escape from it. People from different nations have their own way of defining death. I took the examples of ancient Egyptians and Koreans to compare. Egyptians believed that the afterlife is reemergence of best time of present world. They always imagined another world to come and prepared for it with confidence. Pharaohs and noble people spent many years to build their tomb, the pyramids. They employed special people to decorate their pyramids with different paintings and sculptures. These artworks usually described the activities which they want to continue afterlife such as hunting or feast. Koreans also believed in afterlife. However, they did not build fancy tombs or prepared death like Egyptians. Inspired by Confucian, they thought that remembering the dead is the most important thing. They had many rules to obey in dealing with death. The most conspicuous thing was costume and special ceremony. When a member of family passed away, everyone wore white clothing to express their grief. Men wore a strap around their arm and women wore white cloth on top of their head. In now days, men still wear a strap around their arm but women wear white hairpin on their head instead. Another interesting thing is that when ones parents pass away, the son had to build a small hut right next his parents tomb and guard it for three years. After three years, he would return to his home and he would hold a special ceremony once in a year to remember his parents. Ancient Egyptians mummified dead body to promise next life. They would remove all the organs expect the heart and embalm it. Then they would wrap the body with fine linen and place them in...