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.

Or 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. Many elderly people in Vietnam choose to use Chinese characters.

Moreover, some places also choose Chinese for the sake of form, but Chinese characters are not used for a long time, which often leads to 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.