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China, the third largest country by area in th world, holds one-fifth of the world's population. Among all the 31 provinces and autonomous regions of China, Hunan is a normal one, from either geographic or demographic perspective (according to the statistics at the end of 2007, Hunan covers an area of around 210,000 square kilometers, and has a population of 68,000,000). It is the unique Hunan Culture that distinguishes Hunan from all the other provinces in China. Hunan Culture, with the embodiment of so many talented Hunanese, has influenced the development of modern Chinese history directly or indirectly. It is rather safe to say that, in modern Chinese history, half of its chapters are written for Hunanese. Hunan culture,as well as Hunanese, is characterized by its BAMAN (or, “BANMAN”,in Hunan dialect, it means “being persistent, even if know that this persistency is somewhat obvious not useful”). From culture anthropological point of view, BAMAN is the fundamental feature of Hunanese's disposition. This feature is a social consciousness formed by Hunanese in their unique and enduring struggle and competition with the Nature and the society for thousands of years. Hunanese are famous for their ambitious and persistent challenge towards their own limits, and BAMAN is a vivid reflection of this spirit. Yan-Du( 1874-1931) wrote, in his famous “Ode to Hunan Youth”, that Chinese People will never be destroyed,as long as Hunanese still exist in the battlefield", which is another expression of Hunanese' BAMAN

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본 논고는 오랜 역사와 전통으로 자타 공인하고 있는 찬란한 중국문화속에서 호상(湖湘)문 화가 갖고 있는 의미는 상당히 독특하다. 비록 다른 성과 비교하여보면 중국내에서 차지하는 지역이나 인구가 결코 많다고는 할 수 없지만 중국문화권중 가장 특색 있는 본토문화로서 타 지역과의 차별성은 명확하게 구분된다. 그 차별성의 대표적인 내용이 바로 시공을 초월하여 그들의 뼈 속 깊이까지 각인되어있는 거친 야성 문화(霸蛮文化)와 협기정신(血性精神) 이라 고 할 수 있을 것이다. 본 논문은 문화인류학적 측면에서 면면히 이어져 내려온 그들 성격의 기본특성이자 행위방식으로서의 야성 문화를 유한한 자아에 도전하는 영웅정신으로 간주하고 그 내용의 실례를 분석하여 보았다.