China's Chinese language is broad and profound, the semantics are diverse, the depth is deep, and many foreign clans have always sent emissaries to the Central Plains to learn Chinese, and return to their hometowns to spread Han culture on the day of completion of their studies. But there is also a state leader in history, who has come to China to settle for nearly twenty years, and after learning Chinese fluently, he immediately abolished Chinese characters as soon as he returned to his own country.
Language and writing have always been the carriers of world civilization, from the ancient mouth to the record and inheritance after the invention of writing, they have contributed indelible contributions to the cultures of various countries. The ancient Central Plains has always been a big Asian country, and its Confucian knowledge of Chinese characters has had a profound impact on the surrounding countries, and later Western culture has flowed into the East Asian region, and countries have slowly shown a trend of de-Sinicization, such as Korea, Vietnam, and Japan.
The leader of the country we are talking about in this chapter is Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam, in the early 1st century AD, Annam (ancient Vietnam) began to contact Chinese and integrate into daily life, and then continued to use the 15th century AD, Annam's literati and inkers began to use Chinese characters to create the Vietnamese customary word "murmur", so it can be seen that Annam at that time was mainly based on Chinese characters, and even their history books were recorded and passed down in Chinese characters.
However, Ho Chi Minh was born during the French colonial period in Vietnam, which had endured many years of war and pedantic, so Ho Chi Minh distributed and led the Vietnamese people to stand up against foreign enemies, and he later became the founding leader of Vietnam. At that time, Vietnam had a deep friendship with China, and during the sensitive period of the revolutionary war, Ho Chi Minh changed his name to Li Rui in 1924 to settle in Guangzhou in order to seek more long-term development. He lived here for more than 20 years, during which Ho Chi Minh worked hard to learn Chinese culture, especially the Chinese language, so he slowly memorized the Chinese characters one by one, talked to Chinese chinese to answer like a stream, and even wrote Chinese characters with great personality.
In August 1945, due to the unconditional surrender of Japan, Vietnam ushered in the dawn of liberation, at this time Ho Chi Minh saw that the domestic situation was very good, decided not to idle any longer, and soon packed his bags and bid farewell to our officials and returned to Vietnam. After returning to China, Hu Zhi's prestige was extremely high, and his merits were also great, and he was soon elected by the people as the president of Vietnam, and led the Vietnamese people on the road of independence and self-reliance, but when Ho Chi Minh handled everything safely, he ordered that the Chinese characters be deposed and replaced by Vietnamese characters based on the Roman Latin alphabet. Ho Chi Minh also deliberately amended a constitution so that only citizens who could read and write Vietnamese characters had the right to vote, so the Vietnamese people stopped educating Chinese characters from then on, and local residents gradually became unfamiliar with Chinese characters.
Why did Ho Chi Minh abolish Chinese characters? When he settled in China, he also praised the benefits of Chinese characters, saying that he admired China's profound culture, but as soon as he returned to China, he abolished Chinese characters, and the reasons for this were very puzzling. Some people think that this is due to the independence of the Vietnamese people in 1945, since the French colonization for many years led to serious deviations in the local culture, if you let everyone continue to learn Chinese characters is inevitably difficult to develop, and even most people can not keep up with the wartime education, learning Chinese characters is also very difficult, so Ho Chi Minh changed to the implementation of a relatively simple and easy to understand Latin language education, so that the national people's cultural knowledge has been generally improved, which is the same as China's reform period, the modification of traditional characters to simplified characters has the same magic.
Vietnam abolished Chinese character education, and the remaining problems soon emerged, first of all, their history books were mostly recorded in Chinese characters, and the family genealogy also used Chinese characters, because many of the reformed generation did not know Chinese characters, which caused inevitable embarrassment. With the economic development of Vietnam in recent years, the level of local people's thinking has increased, so many people hope to restore Chinese character education.