Ancient Vietnam

>>3094045
>what made it so similar to China
It was literally a former province of China that broke away successfully.
>yet so different from other countries in the surrounding area?
It was Chinese-influenced in a SEA filled with Hindu-Islamic retards.

>>3094048
>Hindu-Islamic retards.
Chinese paganism is pretty retarded too

>>3094054
Eeexcept the bit where there is no Dogma, they didn't peddle that shit around with missionaries, have no weird dietary laws against anything, and even does syncretism. The gods demand nothing but some annual sacrifice, so do your ancestor spirits.

>>3094071
Oh I should also add: Zero Clergy.

>>3094054
>>3094071
>>3094092
Stick to the subject, people

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>>3094095
It was already answered in the first post: Vietnam is essentially an East Asian country in SEA.

Imperial Dynasties, Confucianism, Chinky Architecture, filial piety, Chan Buddhist (Thien, in Viet), down to even bits of their cuisine.

Heck, the fucking people themselves, considering some of the Imperial Dynasties of Vietnam were Ethnic Chinese (the Tran, famously).

>>3094045
They were ZHENG'D
Everyone else was GUPTA'D

>>3094113
Ok but is there a diffrence in anything between Imperial China and Vietnam? They couldn't copy everything from China, could they?

>>3094045
2bh Vietnamese people remind me of Cantonese people.

>>3094126
Vietnam had some special laws regarding women iirc. They were quite egalitarian before the adoption of Confucianism but they continued to give women more freedom than China did even after using it.

>>3094045
>what made it so similar to China yet so different from other countries in the surrounding area?

It's literally beside China, not in the middle of Thailand lol.

Vietnam (northern region) was always part of East Asia culturally

Kind of like how North African civilization had more in common with European miditerrainian culture despite being literally in Africa