Was Vietnam Chinese before? Does Vietnam belong to China?

Vietnamese beauty bloggers read Tang poems in Vietnamese, and Vietnam must have belonged to a Chinese vassal state before.

It doesn't belong.

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: c ng hòa x h i ch ngh a vi t nam, English: Socialist Republic of Vietnam), abbreviated as "Vietnam" (Vietnam), is a socialist country in Asia.

Located in the east of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia, bordering Guangxi and Yunnan in the north, and bordering Laos and Cambodia in the west, the land is long and narrow, with an area of about 330,000 square kilometers, close to the South China Sea, and a coastline of more than 3,260 kilometers.

In 1986, reform and opening up began to be implemented, and in 2001, the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam decided to establish a socialist market economic system. The Communist Party of Vietnam is the only ruling party in the country. Vietnam is also a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

On May 23, 2021, according to the Standing Committee of the National Assembly of Vietnam, the first session of the 15th National Assembly is expected to be held from July 20 to August 3.

Yes.

In ancient times, parts of both the north and south of Vietnam were Chinese territory.

Probably reached the area of today's Thua Thien Hue Province, and established Jiu Huang County and Nhat Nam County. The area of northern Vietnam that was controlled by China was mainly the area of the present-day Red River Plain, excluding the western mountainous areas, and the ethnic group was mainly the Yue people, who probably became independent from China after the Tang Dynasty.

The southern part was separated in the Han Dynasty, and it is said that it was established by the county Cheng Xing Cao at that time, and the country name was Cham, and China was called Champa. The main ethnic groups are the Cham and Chhama (i.e., the Khmer people in Cambodia).

The states established in the north, initially called the Cochin State and later called themselves Da Viet, began to expand, destroying the Cham state in the south around the late Ming Dynasty, and then continued southward, occupying the state of Suchenla near the Mekong Delta, and the territory was basically formed.

That is to say, from north to south, Vietnam is the country of Vietnam, the country of Champa, and the country of Chenla. With the exception of Chenla, the first two were once Chinese territory. In fact, the Yue Kingdom was not actually governed by China after the Five Dynasties, and the Cham did not have it in the Tang Dynasty, and the Cham was also called Linyi in the Tang Dynasty.

There are relevant records that the Ming Dynasty intended to recover all the Han and Tang Dynasty hometowns, and once occupied the Yue country, but because the ethnic relations were not good, and the local aborigines opposed the final retreat, the Cham Po never arrived at all, and it was not a country of conquest.

In order to completely achieve unification, Qin Shi Huang also sent troops south after the establishment of the Qin Dynasty to incorporate the originally independent Baiyue into the territory of the Qin Dynasty, including part of Vietnam. In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, a general named Zhao Tuo took advantage of the chaos in the world to raise troops in the Lingnan region and took advantage of the situation to establish a regime called Nanyue. From then on, the ownership of the north-central part of Vietnam fell into the hands of the South Vietnamese state.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, this regime was destroyed by the Han army, and control of Vietnam was transferred to the Han Dynasty. This state of affairs remained in place for more than a thousand years, until China itself fell into an extraordinary chaos of five dynasties and ten kingdoms.

The name "Vietnam" appeared during the Qing Dynasty. At that time, Vietnam was under the rule of the Nguyen Dynasty, and the rulers of that regime wanted to change the name of the country back to the original "South Vietnam", so they sent envoys to China to ask for instructions. However, Emperor Jiaqing felt that the original Nanyue State included the Lingnan region of China and did not conform to the territory of Vietnam, so he rejected this request from the Nguyen Dynasty.

However, Emperor Jiaqing gave the Nguyen Dynasty another country name, which was "Vietnam". Since then, the name Vietnam has been used to this day.

Vietnam was no longer part of China as early as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, which was a particularly turbulent era in Chinese history, during which many regimes were fighting, and Vietnam took the opportunity to break away from China and choose independence.

Vietnam was not part of China from the late Qing Dynasty. In the later years of the Qing Dynasty, the state was corrupt, and the Western European powers came to invade China, which led to the decline of the Qing Dynasty's deterrent power to neighboring countries.

In 939 A.D., some people privately established a dynasty in Vietnam, and in 968, they gradually broke away from China and became independent, and in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, it began to belong to France and not to China.

Until the Tang Dynasty, Vietnam was under the direct rule of China, and during the Song Dynasty, Vietnam became a vassal state of the Song Dynasty, and until the late 19th century, it became a French colony, which was officially separated from Chinese jurisdiction.