On The Ancient Vietnam's Chinese Poetry And Its History

Vietnam had been one part of China all the time from the period that Qin had unified China to the year of A.D 939 when it obtained its independence. It has been deeply influenced by the culture of China. Actually, it kept the vassal relations with China during the period it had got the independence to the time it became the colony of French, although it obtained independence in form. The rulers in each dynasty would report the important affairs to the court of China and paid tribute with "sincerity" to keep the former relation between the two countries. It offered broad conditions for federal authority to accept the effect of China's culture and to introduce its fruitful achievements initiatively.The age long historic communication between China and Vietnam caused their close relationship in literature of long standing, which contained the national information, historic information, and information about culture, etc. The Chinese poetry of Vietnam is the vital part of the research for oriental culture and literature. Obviously, the research on Vietnam's Chinese poetry has got delightful achievements by reviewing the researching works of scholars in two countries, while it also had some questions unsettled.The Chinese poetry was the essential part of Vietnam' s ancient literature and the outcome of ancient Chinese poetry in Vietnam marked the beginning of its national literature. During the history of development for almost 1000 years, poetry has taken the first part no matter in quantity or in accomplishments, which witnessed and represented the development course of Vietnam ancient literature. The poems subjected as Zen Buddhism from the 10^th century to the 12^th century has developed to a variety of poem themes, when the production of Vietnam poetry varied in form and in content. Since the 13^th century, as the creation of the Nom Chu, the Vietnamese poetry has been divided into two relatively indispensable system as Chinese poems and Nom Chu poems, which represented the official literature and light literature respectively, two branches of Vietnam literature. In a word, the Vietnamese poetry has followed the whole ancient literature history from the beginning to the end. Many famous writers and great works can be studied by later, and anal sized in poetic field to clarify the literature exchange course between China and Vietnam.To describe the history when the Chinese poems of Vietnam developed into the palmy days from it'd been created firstly, this paper embodied the works written in the beginning of its creation, such as Rivers and of Mountains in Southern Countries (Li Changjie); and the works marked the birth of Nam Chu literature, such as Flying Sand Collection(Ruanquan). And also it anal sized the important...