What will happen if Vietnam abolishes the use of 1800 Chinese characters and the whole people learn Roman Pinyin?

A country's culture should be both soft and hard. Like the sun, moon and stars, it should spread infinite brilliance for the people on the earth and illuminate the smooth road ahead. It should also be rock-solid. No matter how the years are baptized and how the times impact, it will always stand firmly and unyieldingly on the backbone of the country. Culture is a precious wealth that a country should never give up, and it will be passed down and preserved forever. But in a country, culture has become a victim of politics. They decided to abolish the Chinese characters that have been used for 1800 years and learn Roman Pinyin for all. This country is Vietnam.

The Origin of Viet Nam and China

As we all know, Vietnam is a neighbor of China, but in fact, thousands of years ago, northern Vietnam was also a part of China's territory, and it was a fief in countless dynasties. As early as Qin Shihuang unified the world, he sent troops to Guangdong and Fujian to conquer Baiyue tribe and bring its territory into Chinese territory.

Jia Yi of the Han Dynasty also wrote in On Qin: "Take the land of Baiyue in the south and think that Guilin is like a county. Baiyue Wang bowed his head and appointed officials. " The land of Baiyue is the territory of tribes in northern Vietnam. After the collapse of the Qin Dynasty, Zhao Tuo became king in South Vietnam and was destroyed during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. In this way, while the dynasties changed in China's history, South Vietnam was constantly experiencing the change of the kingdom.

It was not until the Song Dynasty that Vietnam became an autonomous vassal state. Although it became an independent country, due to the long-term influence of China culture, Vietnamese has always used Chinese characters. The official system also inherited the official system of China in previous dynasties, and the local language is also a combination of Chinese and local national languages.

In this way, Chinese characters run through most of Vietnam's classical culture, and China's Chinese characters have been used in Vietnam for 1800 years. On the other hand, China's Chinese characters have become the main force of Vietnamese culture and supported the development of Vietnamese culture.

But even though Chinese characters occupy a very important position in Vietnamese culture, in modern times, what made Vietnam decide to give up using 1800-year-old Chinese characters and learn Roman Pinyin instead? Let's take a look at it next!

Decided to abolish Chinese characters

Vietnam decided to abolish Chinese characters and learn Roman Pinyin for two reasons. On the one hand, it is because of the development of modern Europe. On the other hand, under the trampling of modern China, Vietnam lost its long-standing cultural attachment. Under the rule of foreign powers, it had to choose to give up Chinese characters in order to develop.

As we all know, Europe developed rapidly in 16 and 17 centuries. With the great geographical discovery, the rise of navigation and the development of industrial revolution, Europe's influence in the world has been greatly enhanced. Therefore, some European missionaries also began to travel overseas by boat to preach to overseas people, aiming at spreading European religious beliefs and culture and letting more people know about Europe.

It was also at this time that these missionaries not only came to China, but also came to Vietnam, and most of them used Roman Pinyin, which impacted the local culture of Vietnam to some extent and laid a certain foundation for Vietnam to abolish Chinese characters and learn Roman Pinyin in the future.

From 65438 to 0840, the great powers began to invade China and forced China to sign a series of unequal treaties. At this time, China became devastated under the trampling of foreign powers. With the weakening of the national strength of the government in the late Qing Dynasty, Vietnam, as an autonomous country, was forcibly ceded to France and became a colony of France. In order to better manage and control the local Vietnamese, the colonial rulers decided to start with the local culture. They forced the locals to give up learning Chinese characters and study Roman Pinyin and Latin instead.

Because China's culture has always been passed down, Viet Nam lacks cultural creativity. In that turbulent era, they could not combine the local culture with the culture brought by foreign powers to create their own culture. In the end, they chose to give up using 1800 years of Chinese characters and learn new languages and characters. I don't know that this move will make Vietnam face more difficulties in cultural development in the future.

Current situation of Vietnamese culture

After becoming a colony, in order to survive and develop, Vietnam began to learn Roman Pinyin, and Chinese characters were gradually forgotten by them in the colonial life in the next few decades. However, after the colonial period ended, Vietnam became an independent country. In order to deny the history of being a vassal state of China, the incumbent did not choose to restore the status of Chinese characters, but chose to give up learning Chinese characters and still use Roman Pinyin learned during the colonial period.

However, Chinese characters have existed in Vietnamese culture for more than 1800 years, and it is difficult to give them up. Such a hasty decision has greatly impacted Vietnamese culture in the future and even caused cultural estrangement.

In Vietnam, many elderly people choose to use Chinese characters, and some places also choose to use Chinese for formal sacrifices. But they haven't used Chinese characters for a long time, so there are often many typos when using Chinese characters. However, many young people in Vietnam don't know Chinese characters, and they all use the Roman Pinyin prescribed by the state, which leads to the fault of Vietnamese culture and the crisis of Vietnamese cultural inheritance.

Cultural Heritage and Politics

Culture is the backbone of a country, and it can't be easily changed or abandoned at any time, let alone completely deny the former culture for political reasons and learn a new culture at once. Real culture should be accumulated bit by bit in the circulation of years. Vietnam's practice will not only promote the development of national culture, but also create obstacles for the inheritance of Vietnamese culture to a certain extent.

When young people in Vietnam open the history books and want to know about Vietnam's past history, they find that it is full of strange Chinese characters. When young people in Vietnam want to carry forward Vietnam's past history and culture, they find that almost all ancient books in Vietnam are written in Chinese characters. This cultural confusion has aroused the dissatisfaction of many Vietnamese. In order to understand the history and inherit the national culture, many Vietnamese began to suggest learning Chinese characters again. In this way, Chinese characters have now become the second largest language in Vietnam.

Creation makes culture full of vigor and vitality, but culture can never really become the support of a country's soft power only by creation without inheritance. Cultural inheritance and politics are not contradictory, but should promote each other. Politics promotes cultural development, and cultural inheritance and development promotes political development.

Culture is the foundation and lifeline of a nation and the strength of its survival and development. Cultural inheritance cannot be interrupted at any time. Only in this way can culture always show its vigorous vitality.