In ancient times, China has always been the most powerful presence in Asia, with China as the center of the formation of a strong Chinese cultural circle, such as Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia and other countries have been radiated.
Unfortunately, after the late Qing Dynasty, China gradually became disconnected from the world, and its influence also weakened, and many of its original vassal states became colonies of Western powers, and the most important cultural aspects changed. Even after they achieved independence, in order to get rid of Chinese influence, they chose more resistant policies, such as Vietnam.
In the Vietnamese mythological system, the earliest dynasty was the State of WenLang established by the Hong Pang clan, a descendant of the Chinese Shen Nong clan, which has been associated with China since then.
After Qin Shi Huang established the Great Unification Dynasty, he immediately marched south and successfully conquered Baiyue, and from this time on Vietnam belonged to the territory directly under the direct control of China, and it was not until the Northern Song Dynasty that it became independent from the Central Plains Dynasty.
Since then, although Vietnam has been called independent, it is actually still a vassal of China, belonging to China's vassal state, and has always been close to China culturally, using Chinese characters and adopting the Chinese political system, and even their national name 'Vietnam' was given by the Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing Dynasty of China.
However, later the French colonists invaded Vietnam, and the Qing Dynasty, which was difficult to protect itself, had no time to take care of it, and after the end of the Sino-French War in 1885, the Qing government signed the Sino-French New Treaty with France, and had no choice but to give up its suzerainty over Vietnam.
Although France established colonial rule in Vietnam, but the influence of thousands of years can be completely eliminated, Vietnamese people are still everywhere can see the shadow of China, like the above two photos are taken during the French colonial period, does it look different from China?
Many of the Vietnamese people still speak Chinese, write Chinese characters, use the Chinese calendar, celebrate Chinese festivals, and so on, but all this changed when Vietnam became independent.
In 1945, Ho Chi Minh declared independence in Hanoi and established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, immediately announcing the abolition of chinese characters.
In fact, Ho Chi Minh has a very deep relationship with China, he himself has come to the Chinese revolution many times, lived in China for a long time, and he can speak very fluent Chinese and Cantonese, can write a beautiful brush, and has a good relationship with the leaders of our party.
Logically, Ho Chi Minh should not have abolished Chinese characters, but from his point of view, this is not abnormal.
Because Vietnam's national strength was not strong at that time, if you want to develop, you must eliminate illiteracy, so that ordinary people can learn complex Chinese characters, the cost is higher, and it is difficult to implement, so they use concise pinyin characters instead of Chinese characters.
(In fact, during the Republic of China period, there were also scholars such as Lu Xun who thought that Chinese characters were too complex, unfavorable from the perspective of national popularity, and should be abolished.) And our current simplified words are also vigorously promoted out of the consideration of literacy and civilianization. ）
A hundred years ago, the Vietnamese People's Chinese character Chun Lian
In addition, Vietnam has only just become independent, and Ho Chi Minh and others are certainly not willing to break away from the colonizers and become a vassal of China.
That's why they couldn't wait to order the abolition of Chinese characters in favor of Chinese characters based on the Roman Latin alphabet, which stipulated in the Constitution that only citizens who could read and write Chinese characters would have the right to vote, a move that led to the abandonment of Chinese characters throughout Vietnam.
According to Vietnamese folklore, during the Spring Festival, they will eat sauerkraut, fatty meat, rice dumplings, hang banners and set off firecrackers, and paste red Spring League.
Like eating well, the practice is the same as before, but the Chinese characters have been abolished, how do Vietnamese people write ChunLian?
Among the Vietnamese, there are not many people who can also write brush characters, so a profession of writing Spring League on behalf of the writer - Tu Weng, Tu Weng can write Chinese characters is even rarer, most of them are written Chinese characters Spring League, but the writing method is still written in Chinese.
The words are from top to bottom, and the arrangement method of the first and last links is the same as that of the Chinese Spring League, can you understand what the word is in the hands of the two young people above?
Left is: Happy New Year and safe progress, right: Spring is glorious and rich, the meaning is exactly the same, the word can't be understood, right? People don't want us to understand it if they want to change it.
Vietnam's Spring League is also pasted at the gate, some people will also put up a banner, looking very similar, but it is not the same, hey.
There is also a very serious impression of the abolition of Chinese characters in Vietnam, that is, how to study ancient history, because most of their ancient books are also recorded in Chinese characters, and few people are proficient in complex characters. I wonder if Ho Chi Minh had this in mind at the beginning.