How was Chinese influence visible in Vietnam even after becoming independence
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One must understand that North Vietnam, presently Vietnam had been ruled by China for over 1000 years. That’s a long time, before they finally achieved their independence in the 10th century.
During that time it was North Vietnam. South Vietnam had countries such as Cambodia.
Culturally it’s understandable why Vietnamese were heavily influenced by China. However, even politically, the ease of implementation of the Chinese imperial court was another reason why Vietnam followed it.
Vietnam has been influenced culturally by China immensely.
The courts in Vietnam is the Imperial Chinese court system.
Even independent states in Vietnam kept on paying tribute to their Central like the ancient Zhou Dynasty of China.
Even in the field of education, China had an overwhelming influence on China like Ho Chi Minh’s first characters were in Chinese.