In recent years, these neighboring countries, such as South Korea, Vietnam, and Japan, are either scrambling to apply for intangible cultural heritage, or are vying for the birthplace of customs.
No matter how much it is tossed, history cannot be rewritten, neither South nor Japan can change the reality that it was a subordinate country of the Central Plains Dynasty.
At that time, their ancestors made many applications to get the opportunity to study in the Central Plains, and these countries sent people to copy our Chinese language, customs, systems, and everything they thought was meaningful.
As a result, they had writing, systems, and customs, along with Confucian culture, the imperial examination system, and the calligraphy and tea ceremony.
Many of the history books of these countries are written in Chinese characters, which shows that the influence of Chinese and Han culture has long been deeply rooted in their blood.
But with the development of the times, these countries are trying to prove to the world that their things are not copied from us. Let's just think of this behavior as "cultural lack of confidence".
Out of this lack of self-confidence, they try to prove to the world that this is their own culture.
But after going around for decades, in most cases, about half of the Chinese characters are still retained in a Japanese sentence, and South Korea has made the characters unrecognizable, and as a result, they can't even distinguish their names, and finally have to write Chinese characters on their ID cards to distinguish each other.
As for Vietnam, Chinese characters have been abolished twice, but there is still one character that cannot be erased until now.
As early as the pre-Qin period, Vietnam was under the jurisdiction of the Central Plains Dynasty, and during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty led the army to pacify the Nanyue Kingdom and promote the Han culture to the past.
Han culture took root in the South Vietnamese country, and many literature, pharmacy, and literary classics were all written in Chinese characters. Around the 10th century AD, Vietnam became an independent feudal state from the control of the Central Plains Dynasty.
Due to Vietnam's remote location and inconvenient management, the Central Plains regime just let it go, no longer intervened, and turned a blind eye as long as it did not make trouble.
Later, there was a pause, and exchanges between the two countries have continued. Once Vietnam gained a foothold, it began to think about how it could develop a language and script that would suit its national development.
Vietnam has its own spoken language, and due to economic development and other restrictions, the cultural popularity of the common people is not high.
The cost of learning Chinese characters is also rising, so the relevant departments in Vietnam have come up with a new set of "Vietnamese literature" after research, improving the Chinese characters, reorganizing the order of the characters, and calling them "mumbling characters".
After the Vietnamese script was improved, it was better to create its own script, and it became more confident at the cultural level, and the momentum of the Central Plains Dynasty was even stronger.
How to make an analogy, Vietnam is like a disobedient younger brother in the family, who wants to live by himself, so let's let him live alone.
However, he still has some conflicts with Big Brother from time to time, and often can't tell the difference between good and bad relatives. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the Western invaders knocked on the door of the Qing Dynasty by force and began to point the spearhead of aggression at the east of the world.
During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, a Sino-French war broke out, in which Vietnam played a very important role. The original intention of the French invasion and occupation of Vietnam was, on the one hand, to obtain Vietnam as a foothold, and its ultimate goal was to invade the Qing Dynasty.
The method often used by the aggressors is to follow the little brothers around the mainland and use it as a springboard to invade China's China region, which is the incident in which Vietnam became a French colony.
After the fall of Vietnam, the French forcibly severed Vietnam's ties with China in order to facilitate their rule, and the written word was regarded as a key area of care.
In 1919, Vietnam abolished Chinese characters, reduced the use of Chinese characters, and introduced French in Vietnam, increasing the use of French.
In this way, after decades of development, about a generation, Vietnam gained independence in 1945 through a revolution.
After the war, Vietnam was faced with a situation of ruins waiting to be rebuilt, and this time they encountered even more difficult problems, not only the problem of Chinese characters, but also the problem of French.
After integration, in 1945, Vietnam once again completely abolished Chinese characters and used their "Chinese characters", which has continued to this day. This "Chinese character" is similar to the characters we couldn't write in elementary school. Their characters became "pinyin".
At that time, Vietnam had just become independent and faced many problems. The integration of cultural resources so that citizens can quickly learn cultural knowledge is the first priority.
Chinese characters were difficult for the Vietnamese people at that time to learn. At that time, the popularity and investment in education in Vietnam were far from enough to support the whole country to learn Chinese characters.
Moreover, Ho Chi Minh did not want Vietnam to follow the old path, so he had to implement their existing "Chinese language". The problem of writing has been solved, but the customs and traditions that have been passed down for thousands of years have not changed.
What has been passed down from our ancestors has been deeply rooted in everyone's blood, and Vietnam can't choose to create customs and habits out of thin air in order to be different.
In this way, Vietnam still retains the habit of pasting couplets for the Spring Festival, but what is more embarrassing is that they can only use "Chinese characters" to write couplets, which looks more funny, and feels inexplicably bitter when you think about it.
Jokes are jokes, tosses are tosses, although the couplets have been changed, but there is one word that has been timeless, this is the word "Fu" we posted during the New Year. It has been 77 years since they abolished Chinese characters, and the character "Fu" has been passed down from generation to generation in Vietnam.
The Chinese New Year is to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, praying for the coming year to be full of blessings, whether it is reunion or financial prosperity, it can be summed up by the word "blessing".
Although Fu is a word, it contains all the good things, and thousands of blessings are not as comprehensive as one word "Fu".
The so-called cultural self-confidence is not necessarily different, discarding what has been passed down from the ancestors and creating something new, which is not a wise move, but will lead to a disconnect in one's own culture.
Whether it is Vietnam or South Korea, although the Chinese characters have been eliminated, they still cannot erase the influence of Han culture, but they have a certain cultural fault.
Not to mention anything else, the books of the ancients, maybe they can only rely on translation software to consult, and South Korea, after the change, even the name is not clear, and the ID card has to rely on Chinese characters to distinguish it......
Such examples will not be repeated one by one, culture is about inheritance, and it is not something that anyone who wants to wash it can wash it clean.