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Yes, Vietnam belongs to Chinese civilization, but not to China
This is just like many European countries belong to ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, but this does not mean that they belong to Italy.
No, they do not need to "return"
Vietnam still retains a lot of Chinese civilization traditions to this day. Since they have been in it, why should they "return"?
Why does Vietnam belong to Chinese civilization?


是的,越南属于中华文明,但不属于中国
这就如同欧洲很多国家属于古希腊、罗马文明,但这并不代表它们属于意大利。
不,他们不需要“回到”
越南至今还保留着不少中华文明传统,既然已经是中华文明的一部分,又何必“回到”呢?
越南为什么属于中华文明?

First, you need to understand: What is Chinese civilization?
Chinese civilization originated 5,000 years ago and matured 2,500 years ago. In the past 2,000 years, Chinese civilization has several typical characteristics
A. Confucianism
After the competition of various philosophical thoughts in the early days, Confucianism became the core philosophy of Chinese civilization. It is also the core symbol of whether a country belongs to Chinese civilization in the past 2,000 years.
Among the Southeast Asian countries, Vietnam is the country that believes in Confucianism the most, and currently Vietnam has the largest number of Confucian temples in Southeast Asia.
B. Chinese character circle
Countries that use Chinese characters usually belong to the Chinese cultural circle. For example, countries such as South Korea and Vietnam used Chinese characters and later switched to phonetic characters. But their language expression still belongs to the Chinese character cultural circle.
C. Chinese Buddhism(Mahayana Buddhism)
Buddhism was not invented by the Chinese, but after Buddhism was introduced to China, it merged with Chinese culture to form a unique Chinese Buddhism. It is currently the largest branch of Buddhism in the world and the core of global Buddhism.
The countries that are greatly influenced by Han Buddhism basically belong to the Chinese cultural circle.
Buddhism in Vietnam is mainly influenced by Chinese Buddhism, while most Southeast Asian countries believe in Theravada Buddhism. This is also one of the significant differences between Vietnam and ASEAN countries.

首先,你要明白:什么是中华文明?
中华文明起源于5000年前,成熟于2500年前。在过去的2000年里,中华文明有几个典型的特点
A、儒家思想
经过早期各种哲学思想的竞争,儒家思想成为中华文明的核心哲学,也是两千年来一个国家是否属于中华文明的核心标志。在东南亚国家中,越南是最信奉儒教的国家,目前越南是东南亚拥有孔庙最多的国家。
B.汉字圈
使用汉字的国家,一般都属于中华文化圈,例如韩国、越南等国家,都是使用汉字,后来改用拼音文字,但他们的语言表达方式,仍然属于汉字文化圈。
C.中国佛教(大乘佛教)
佛教并非中国人发明,但佛教传入中国后,与中国文化相融合,形成了独具特色的中国佛教,是目前世界佛教中最大的一个分支,也是全球佛教的核心。
受汉传佛教影响较大的国家,基本上都属于中华文化圈。
越南佛教主要受中国佛教的影响,而东南亚国家大多信奉小乘佛教,这也是越南与东盟国家的显著差异之一。

D. Traditional architecture, tools and clothing
Traditional Chinese architecture is characterized by base, brackets, eaves and columns.
Some specific Chinese tools are used in daily life, such as chopsticks
Traditional clothing is influenced by ancient Chinese style, such as Japanese kimono, Korean hanbok, Vietnamese Ao Dai/Áo tứ thân, etc.
In fact, Vietnam has many items that meet the characteristics of the Chinese cultural circle. Compared with typical Chinese culture, Vietnam is actually very close. Its similarity is even higher than some remote provinces in China, such as xinjiang, Ti... and Inner Mongolia, and higher than South Korea and Japan.

D. 传统建筑、工具和服饰
中国传统建筑的特点是基座、斗拱、屋檐、柱子。
一些特定的中国工具在日常生活中使用,例如筷子
传统服饰受到古代中国风格的影响,例如日本和服、韩国韩服、越南奥黛等。
其实,越南有很多符合中国文化圈特点的东西,跟典型的中国文化相比,越南其实已经很接近了,相似度甚至比中国一些偏远省份,比如新疆、西藏、内蒙古等地还要高,也比韩国、日本要高。