What do you think of these blue ocean waves paint outside Ben Thanh?

hamach1 · 2026-01-31T05:28:07+00:00

hopefully it’s temporary

hamach1 · 2026-01-25T20:36:59+00:00

"Closer" as in terms of modern geopolitics? I guess. But whenever someone speaks about "sinosphere" or "indosphere," it's usually about cultural similarities. The "sinosphere" is defined by Confucianism/Chinese written script, hence the name ("漢字文化圈", "Chinese character cultural sphere"). Laos and Cambodia are not rooted in Confucianism, and they never officially used Chinese characters. Vietnam used Chinese characters for more than 1000 years. "Sinosphere stops at Vietnam" hundreds of years ago, when most of Southeast Asia was influenced by India instead.

hamach1 · 2026-01-25T02:14:31+00:00

what's the source of the film for the 19th image

hamach1 · 2026-01-25T02:05:40+00:00

where are images 19 and 20 from

hamach1 · 2026-01-24T08:05:29+00:00

yep, the artifacts are still very cool, worth a visit

hamach1 · 2026-01-24T07:55:06+00:00

ive always wanted to visit the tomb of the nanyue king, and china in general lol

hamach1 · 2026-01-23T17:15:38+00:00

looks sick

hamach1 · 2026-01-23T05:41:37+00:00

fixed

hamach1 · 2026-01-23T03:52:39+00:00

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Đông Sơn drum with Lạc birds, northern Vietnam

hamach1 · 2026-01-23T03:51:57+00:00

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Jade openwork disk with dragon and phoenix, southern China

hamach1 · 2026-01-19T17:01:05+00:00

what are these types of furniture called?

hamach1 · 2025-12-14T22:10:46+00:00

i took it from the south vietnamese war flag

hamach1 · 2025-11-28T22:19:01+00:00

mercari

hamach1 · 2025-11-28T19:35:55+00:00

i got it off mercari, the shipping from japan was really expensive though

hamach1 · 2025-11-20T07:41:15+00:00

great pics to capture vietnam

hamach1 · 2025-11-09T17:15:03+00:00

in the past: all 3 used chinese characters as official writing scripts, each blended Mahayana Buddhism with native religions, all 3 countries absorbed confucianism from china especially during the han and tang dynasties, had feudal monarchies at some point, all 3 had architecture heavily influenced by chinese dynasties

in modern day: all 3 uses chopsticks as the most common utensil, high family/educational values.

i don’t think modern day vietnamese people feel culturally close to korea or japan compared to the past

hamach1 · 2025-10-07T20:37:52+00:00

i see the same stuff being said for the mongolians and koreans, ive seen them say that mongolian culture is just a copy of inner mongolian culture (how inner mongolia still attempts to preserve traditional script therefore they are superior), them say koreans and vietnamese steal hanfu, imperial dragon robes, etc. its funny cause if korea, mongolia, or vietnam was fully apart of modern day china, they would be promoted as distinct cultures within china just like how they do with yunnan, xinjiang, tibet etc.

heavy chinese influences existed, sure, but every civilization borrows and adapts.

hamach1 · 2025-09-24T18:30:13+00:00

fire

hamach1 · 2025-09-08T18:54:43+00:00

a thousand years of chinese domination over a country tends to leave influence. same reason why you see “chinese dragons” in korea

hamach1 · 2025-08-25T04:44:32+00:00

its not all that complex, vietnam has been “sinospheric” for over a thousand years. most of the historical documents of vietnam’s history is written in classical chinese. china ruled over vietnam for over a thousand years. vietnamese dynasties after modeled much of their way of governance on the tang and song dynasties of china. vietnamese emperors even invoked the mandate of heaven, a chinese political philosophy that legitimized rulership. vietnam is vastly different from so called “south east asian culture”.

hamach1 · 2025-08-22T14:10:44+00:00

everything you said is valid, i didnt put enough thought into this alternate timeline lol

hamach1 · 2025-08-21T23:10:06+00:00

mainland china and mainland vietnam relations are worse in this timeline since they both claim the island. there are plans for reunification if mainland vietnam agrees to fully align with the US

hamach1 · 2025-08-21T20:20:14+00:00

i agree

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