Page 181 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

master of the country that he named Nam-Viet (the Viet people
in the South).

Trieu-Da was a good general and conscious political leader.
He reorganized the Vietnamese society system to escape from
the Chinese Emperor’s joke during a long period and ruled
Nam-Viet by his independent ambition, as well as by genial race
until the III BC.

However, the Han dynasty did not agree with an
independent state for Nam-Viet. They had invaded Nam-Viet
with the giant troops, and re-named to Giao-Chi. They applied
the feudal rules of the Emperor of the Chinese Empire to the
Giao-Chi. It was the beginning for Vietnamese slave life in the
dominance of Chinese Empire cruel rules from the III BC to
1,400 AD. Vietnamese became the slavery for the Chinese
conquistadors. There was a burdensome tribute, sweat and toils
of the people for the master. Also, the wealth of the country
went to China such were a general feature for a vanquished race.

During the loss of the independent period, the Vietnamese
had not bowed their heads in patiently before the enemy. They
were indifferent to the enemy cruel rules and always looking for
the way to make themselves up into an initiate for their race.
They found the new techniques for farming, united to open the
ways of living for resisting the Chinese Empire rulers, and held
back their traditional customs. It was so quite different from the
Han Shang feudal civilization, which they forced Vietnamese to
be in the same category for the profit of slavery.

Thus Vietnamese had learned and used all the good things
of Chinese as the frames, such as Chinese pottery, strong house,
skillfully cast weapon, domesticated animals, paddy crop, and so
on...!

Vietnamese had been continuing created the adapted frames
to become their best tradition customs. Then they turned those

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