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After the Vietnamese abolished Chinese characters, what did the Spring Festival couplets look like during the Chinese New Year?
As we all know, writing is one of the very important characteristics of a nation, after consulting the relevant information, it is found that there are 5,651 recorded languages among more than 2,500 ethnic groups in the world, but the vast majority of languages have no own script, and many of the original languages have slowly disappeared in the long history, the most typical is the Mayan hieroglyphs, so that many ethnic groups do not have the ability to convert language into written words.
Fortunately, the Chinese characters we use are currently the longest used by human beings, and the earliest Chinese characters can be seen at present, which appeared in the oracle bone inscription of the Yin Shang period in 1300 BC, but according to the research results of archaeologists, our Chinese characters have a history of more than 6,000 years. Due to the strong ancient dynasty of our country, the influence of Confucian culture gradually extended to the surrounding small countries, so that Korea, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other countries used Chinese characters, of course, in addition to Chinese characters, these countries also live the same festivals and customs as us.
Take Vietnam as an example, they still retain the Lunar New Year and the Dragon Boat Festival, however, due to the weak national strength in the late Qing Dynasty, many surrounding countries took the opportunity to abolish Chinese characters, these abolished Chinese characters in the country both North Korea, South Korea and Vietnam, over time, the vast majority of today's Vietnamese people have long since not understood Chinese characters, so, how to write the Spring Festival couplets during the Chinese New Year?
It should be said here that although today's Vietnamese people no longer know how to write Chinese characters, they still retain the tradition of the Lunar New Year. Since most of today's Vietnamese people don't know how to use brushes and can't write Chinese characters, Vietnam has also derived a ** calligraphy and Spring Festival couplets industry, these people are called Tu Weng. Usually it is the older ones, because these old people still have the opportunity to learn Chinese characters when they are younger, so these old Tu Ong can also write some Chinese characters for the Vietnamese Spring Festival couplets.
The younger generation of Vietnamese can only use the square Roman pinyin to write the Spring Festival couplets, in general, they write the Spring Festival couplets in accordance with the format of Chinese characters, each word is also written from top to bottom word by word, each Vietnamese Roman pinyin word is written as a square, that is, the upper and lower couplets. It's just that the Chinese characters are replaced by square Roman pinyin, which does seem strange to us, but for the Vietnamese people have long been accustomed to it, in addition to the Spring Festival couplets, they will also use the square Roman pinyin to write the word Fu, auspicious, etc.
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After the abolition of Chinese characters in Vietnam, the romanized writing method of the Spring Festival couplets still uses the Chinese character format, only letters, the characters are square, and each character is written word by word from top to bottom, read from left to right.
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After all, Spring Festival is an ancient Vietnamese tradition, and many Vietnamese people are still accustomed to using Chinese characters for Spring Coupling, when people also use Murmur or "Chinese characters", and some simply use two characters to write together.
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Vietnam's Spring Festival couplets are particularly interesting, we all know that the Spring Festival couplets are the embodiment of Chinese pairs in festival culture, so they are essentially a pair, and the pair pays attention to the neatness of the battle and the change of peace, but the Spring Festival couplets of the Vietnamese have all abandoned these, strictly speaking, they say that several Vietnamese characters representing blessings are strung together, but how can the Pinyin characters of the Latin alphabet be able to fight and neatly, so the Spring Festival couplets of the Vietnamese are often entangled in letters.
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Writing represents the culture of a country, and it is also an important link in human relations, and words have different meanings with the continuous progress of society, and our country's writing has a long history, and has been borrowed by other countries in a very early age, such as Vietnam.
Vietnam has not used Chinese characters for 75 years, and even the Spring Festival couplets have been changed to letters, but only one word can not be changed, this word is the word "Fu", because the meaning of the word "Fu" is different, symbolizing joy, just because Vietnam also has the Spring Festival, so under their generational transmission, the word "Fu" has been preserved or rented down.
Vietnam is a neighboring country of China, in the era of Qin Shi Huang, Vietnam's regime is not very stable, and there is no independent language of its own country, and later China implemented the "car on the same track, book on the same text", so Vietnam decided to learn from China, at that time Vietnam also had more languages, but it was always limited to some people to communicate.
Vietnam introduced the Chinese script into its own country, which can be said to be a complete copy, and the Chinese script was also very popular in Vietnam at that time, because it was very happy for the Vietnamese people to finally have a unified script in their country.
Another reason is that the Vietnamese envoy to China is bothered every time because of the language barrier, so the Vietnamese people learn Chinese culture.
Communication between China and Vietnam ended in the Qing Dynasty, because the Qing Dynasty was afraid of collusion between the common people and foreigners, so it made a policy of closing the country to the outside world, which also made Vietnam unable to communicate with China for a long time.
The second country that discovered Vietnam was France, and a large number of missionaries entered Vietnam to spread their culture, so the culture of Vietnam was also slowly changing, and after the French occupied Vietnam, France trumpeted its own culture, which destroyed Vietnamese culture to a certain extent.
It is precisely because of this that Vietnam gradually realized the importance of the "Chinese language", and at the beginning of the 20th century, they confirmed the use of the Chinese language, so it has been 75 years since they stopped using Chinese characters.
Vietnam has not used Chinese characters for 75 years, but there is one Chinese character that is still used today, and that is the character "Fu".
Some people may wonder why the character Fu is still in use since Chinese characters are no longer used. That's because Vietnam follows the Chinese custom of Tet Festival, and even though the country no longer uses Chinese characters, the influence of Chinese culture on the people cannot be changed, and the word Fu also symbolizes good luck.
The word "Fu" has an extraordinary meaning for the Vietnamese people, because you can remember your family by sticking the word "Fu" during the Spring Festival.
Each country can only contribute to the prosperity of its own country if it interacts with each other.
What are your thoughts on this?
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The word Fu, the Spring Festival has been integrated into people's lives, this word Fu Shi Wei also symbolizes their good luck, even if they are far from home, when they see this word, they will think of their own rough return to the banquet family, the significance of their rock silver is significant.
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The only character that has not been changed is the character of Fu, because this character in Vietnam also means that there will be a better life in the coming year, so they have also passed down this tradition and have not changed this Chinese character. Center.
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This word is the word Fu. Because the word Fu symbolizes the very beautiful meaning of Changqiao, and also represents a custom of traditional Chinese culture, so this word Naihong has not changed the key of Naimu.
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Because the Spring Festival couplets written by Vietnamese people are Vietnamese characters, even if they are like Chinese characters, it can't change the fact that they are Vietnamese characters, so of course we can't understand them. And not only are Vietnamese characters like Chinese characters, but their language is also very similar to Chinese dialects.
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Because the characters written by the Vietnamese are imitation Chinese characters, but Vietnam's own characters are added, so we can't understand Chinese characters like Chinese characters but not Chinese characters.
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Because writing Spring Festival couplets has become a custom among the local people in Vietnam, they believe that sticking Spring Festival couplets during the Chinese New Year will bring them good luck in the coming year.
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There are two words that cannot be destroyed, that is, tradition, and the traditional things that are lost can only be limited for a while. Vietnam's abolition of Chinese characters was a matter of selling Dahuai after World War II, but it is not a matter of slowing down history.
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Because this is a traditional custom and culture, this traditional custom and culture must be preserved.
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Because they just changed those words to write them in a different way, and they envied the practical customs of our Chinese culture, so they felt that it was not possible to adapt Chinese culture.
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Because they still use Chinese characters when writing couplets, we Chinese do not understand their behavior.
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The reason why it is puzzling is that the similarity between their New Year's red and China's Spring Festival couplets is still relatively high, and there is nothing particularly prominent.
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In recent years, Vietnam has vigorously developed tourism, and it has also become one of Vietnam's foreign exchange **. No, there are tourists who have recently gone to Vietnam to play, who knows that at this time, Vietnam actually celebrates the Lunar New Year, and even has the same customs as us, to write Spring Festival couplets.
This makes the traveler very curious, he came to a foreign country, and he can still feel such a strong Chinese New Year atmosphere. The local tour guide praised: In today's world, there are very few countries for the Lunar New Year, Vietnam is one of them, and like us in China, the Spring Festival is also the most lively traditional festival for Vietnamese.
Another Vietnamese said: "Chinese New Year is to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and in mid-December, we will also start to buy New Year's goods to prepare for the New Year. This makes the donkey friendly: since Vietnam has abolished Chinese characters, what script is used when writing Spring Festival couplets?
The tour guide took the tourists to the "Flower Street" in Vietnam, which is similar to the flower street in China. There are also many Vietnamese people who use brushes to write Spring Festival couplets in the places where they set up stalls. And the Spring Festival couplets written by the Vietnamese are all alphabet couplets.
The tour guide praises that the squared Roman characters have replaced the Chinese characters, but the way to write the couplets is still according to the format of the Chinese characters.
And the Spring Festival couplets of the Vietnamese also have door couplets, door hearts, bucket squares, spring strips and so on. Seeing the text of Vietnam's Spring Festival couplets made travelers feel crying and laughing. This neighboring country really can't forget about Chinese culture.
What do you think about this? If you have the chance, would you like to see how Vietnamese people celebrate Tet time? Will you be visiting Vietnam?
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The Spring Festival couplets written by the Vietnamese are the Latin alphabet Spring Couplets. The square is used in Roman characters, but the Vietnamese couplet format is still written in the Chinese couplet format.
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I think they may still use some Chinese characters, after all, they are used to using Chinese characters, but there will be more and more Spring Festival couplets written in local languages.
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Although Chinese characters have been abolished, there are some elderly people who are able to write Spring Festival couplets in Chinese characters, and the younger ones will use Roman pinyin calligraphy to write square Spring Festival couplets and become alphabet Spring Festival couplets. Personally, I feel that there is really no calligraphy flowing and beautiful.
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With the improvement of Chinese people's living standards, people now more and more love tourism this activity, people's tourism scope is not limited to the country, many people hope to travel abroad, see different customs, Vietnam is over the years, Chinese tourists like to go to a country.
Compared with other countries, in addition to the scenery and rich tourism resources, the most important thing is that the price is very cheap, and it is close to China, which is naturally welcomed by Chinese tourists, and now Chinese tourists are the most important part of Vietnam's international tourists, and one-third of Vietnam's international tourists are from China.
After many Chinese tourists go to Vietnam, they will find that there are many things in Vietnam, which are very similar to China, such as the Hue Palace in Vietnam, which is built in imitation of the Chinese Forbidden City, and many folk buildings are built according to Chinese architecture, and there are even many Chinese characters, but when they see the Spring Festival couplets hanging in front of Vietnam, many Chinese tourists can't help but laugh.
01 Spring Festival couplets in front of Vietnam, Chinese tourists can't help but laugh when they see it.
Vietnam has a very close relationship with China in history, it used to be a vassal state of China, so there are many things culturally very similar to China, Chinese characters were also their official language, and now Vietnam is also one of the few countries in the world that uses the lunar calendar, so the Chinese New Year, Vietnam has also had it.
Vietnam's Spring Festival and China's Spring Festival, are the most lively local traditional festivals, but also the Vietnamese farewell to the old and welcome the new day, has always been indispensable for the Vietnamese Spring Festival is flowers, rice dumplings, spring unions, firecrackers, and Vietnam's Spring Festival, but many Chinese feel very strange, because their Spring Festival, not Chinese characters, but Arabic letters, looks very contradictory, so Chinese tourists after watching it, feel like laughing.
02 Vietnam has abolished Chinese characters for more than 70 years, but now it is a little regretful.
The reason why Vietnam's Spring Festival couplets will be Arabic is related to the abolition of Chinese characters in Vietnam, the history of using Chinese characters in Vietnam is actually very long, but in modern times, Vietnam has become a French colony, and the French colonists did not allow Vietnam to use Chinese characters, requiring them to use French, although in the end Vietnam became independent, but Vietnam's Chinese characters have also been broken since then, the older generation will still recognize Chinese characters, but the younger generation does not know them, so in the end, Vietnam will also use Arabic as its own script when choosing the language.
Vietnam has abolished Chinese characters for more than 70 years, but the Vietnamese folk have always hoped that Chinese characters can be restored, because Vietnam's ancient books are basically written in Chinese characters, and now many young people do not know how to read at all, so that the culture is broken, and now this situation, writing Spring Festival couplets in Arabic seems nondescript, many words on ancient domestic buildings, young people do not recognize, which makes some cultural scholars very sad, so they hope to restore Chinese character education, in this regard, What do you think? Welcome to leave a message below to discuss.