What was the relationship between China and Vietnam like in ancient history?

1. The first thing to understand is that the current state-to-state relationship is called the Westphalian system, this system:

defined international relations between States based on equality and national sovereignty;

It is the basis of the norms of international relations.

It is the cornerstone of modern international relations

It is the de facto source of modern international law.

2. In East Asia, China has realized a tributary system.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, clearly defined Annam, Champong, Chenla, Goryeo, Siam, Ryukyu, Sumatra, Java, Huanheng, Baihua, Sanfuqi, Boni, and other Western and Nanyang countries as "non-conscripted countries", which actually established the actual scope of China's control.

The tributary principle of "thick and thin" was determined. The tributary system was established and became the prevailing system of international relations in the Eastern world. In this system, the Central Plains regime in China became the center of the unitary state, and the tributary states recognized this central position, constituting the outer vassal of the ** regime.

In this system, the emperor had the right to conquer and canonize foreign vassals. Foreign vassals had the right to provide troops and tribute to China.

3. These are two completely different systems.

The Westphalian system is a flat system, and all countries are equal.

The tributary system was a network system, the countries were not equal at all, and the emperor had supreme rights.

Just like in the ancient big family, the patriarch could punish the family members, but now it seems that this is illegal. And at that time, it was a matter of course.

4. Korea and Vietnam are clearly vassals of China, and Japan is a vassal of China in some dynasties.

The so-called vassal is similar to a big family, China is the eldest son, and North Korea and Vietnam are the youngest sons, and they must listen to the eldest son. Only China can be called emperor, everyone else is called king. Vietnam can live on its own, but you have to be obedient.

If you don't obey, I'm going to use family law.

Japan is far away, so Japan strives to maintain a reciprocal relationship, but China does not care about it because it is far away.

China and Vietnam are connected by mountains and rivers, and they have been closely related since ancient times.

In ancient times, Vietnam was known as Cochin, Jiaozhou, and Annam, and all dynasties before the Song Dynasty in China were governed by county governments. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when the war was raging, Annam took the opportunity to break off the Chinese territory. In 1407, the Ming Dynasty of China sent troops to destroy Hu.

In Quang Zhi Prefecture, Vietnam. Vietnam came under Chinese rule. In the 19th century, French Catholicism invaded Vietnam.

The Qing recognized the treaty between France and Vietnam and renounced its suzerainty over Vietnam.

In the early 19th century, China and Vietnam jointly revolutionized and built the country, and it should be said that Vietnam's independence and nation-building movement was inseparable from China's vigorous assistance, and without China, there would have been no Vietnamese independence.

Added to others: (if I'm not mistaken) Vietnam, Burma and other places are the territories of the Three Kingdoms Mong. From February 17 to March 16, 1979, China and Vietnam went to war (known as the "Self-Defense and Counterattack War against Vietnam" in China and the "Sino-Vietnamese War" in the international community).

Since the Song Dynasty, after the barbarians were developed by us, they have not had a good relationship with us, and the war has lasted for many years until the last century.

Before the Song Dynasty, it was the territory of China, but after the Song Dynasty, because of the weakness of the Central Plains Dynasty, it became independent, and most of the Vietnamese were Kinh people.

Similar to the Ming Dynasty and the Jurchens, they were nominally suzerains and vassals, and sometimes they also fought.

This article details the origins of Vietnam and the relationship between ancient China, and the content is very good, very informative, and a little flavorful!

In ancient times, Vietnam was a vassal state of China for a long time, or even a part of China (five dynasties and ten countries, Vietnam was independent), and its culture was greatly influenced by Han culture. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, China had lost control over Vietnam, and by 1945 Vietnam had formally separated itself from China.

For details, please refer to Chen Chongjin's "General History of Vietnam", and after understanding the basic historical context of Vietnam, you can basically figure out the corresponding Chinese dynasties in ancient Vietnam, cultural exchanges between them, political and economic exchanges, and tributary relations between Vietnam and China. Ancient Vietnam was originally a county of the Han Dynasty, and later became independent.

In fact, the word "Vietnam" actually refers to the southern part of the former South Vietnamese state. That is, "Etsu no Minami".

In the Qing Dynasty, Vietnam once asked the Qing Emperor to name its country "South Vietnam", but its drawbacks were seen through by Qianlong at that time, because Qianlong knew that South Vietnam in history refers to the Lingnan and Guangxi regions, so he changed the title to "Vietnam" and told it, which is a bit of an anti-general and an army.

The present Vietnam has expanded much to the south, and the northern part of the present country is the southern part of the former South Vietnamese State. In the past, Hanoi in northern Vietnam was one of the key towns in the Lingnan region with a relatively large population and relatively developed population.

Ethnically speaking, the main ethnic group in Vietnam, the "Jing people", should be the Nanyue people in the Lingnan area, and they have a certain relationship with the Lingnan Yue people.

In the Qin and Han dynasties, the Nanyue Kingdom was an independent country that was once the emperor and politically completely free from the intervention of the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains.

Vietnam has a long history of nation, and the formation and development of the Vietnamese state has gone through a long historical stage. The ancestors of the Vietnamese nation are the Yue people who live in the middle and lower reaches of the Red River, and their places were called Cochin and Annam in ancient times. In the 4th century B.C., they lived in the middle and lower reaches of the Red River basin and gradually formed a tribal alliance called "Ouluo".

The Nanyue Kingdom (203 B.C. - 111 B.C.), when the Qin Dynasty was about to fall, was established in about 204 B.C. after Zhao Tuo, the captain of Nanhai County, annexed Guilin County and Xiang County, and was destroyed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in 111 B.C., and passed on to the fifth generation, 93 years. The capital was located in Panyu (present-day Guangzhou, Guangdong Province) and included most of the provinces and regions of present-day Guangdong and Guangxi, parts of Fujian, Hunan, Guizhou, and Yunnan, and northern Vietnam. The state of Nanyue is also known as Nanyue or Nanyue, and in Vietnam it is also known as the Zhao Dynasty or the former Zhao Dynasty.

It doesn't matter that Vietnam is on a small part of the land of South Vietnam.

The Nanyue Kingdom was established by Zhao Tuo, a general of the Qin army at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and did not die in the Han Dynasty until the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The northern part of present-day Vietnam was under the control of the South Vietnamese State.

It doesn't matter, except that a small part of northern Vietnam once belonged to South Vietnam.

Vietnam in the Qing Dynasty once asked the Qing Emperor to name its country "South Vietnam", because South Vietnam in history refers to the Lingnan and Guangxi regions, so its ambition was seen through, so it was renamed "Vietnam", to this day, the Vietnamese ambition is still the same. On the encyclopedia of Du Niang's "South Vietnam", there are also people who use "Vietnamese" to annotate, and their intentions are clearly revealed.