Hello. As you know, Vietnam belongs to the so-called sinosphere, so she has a remarkable amount of cultural and societal legacy all over the territory. The fact symbolises this that the Communist Party still mobilises Confusianist creeds and inspires people with them by getting them to go to confucianist temples when their children become 10 years old.

The reason of having abolished 漢字 study in Vietnam from the curriculum of primary and secondary schools shortly after her independence was, of course, the shortage of educational resource. In contrast to Japan and china, which had the capacity of teaching 漢字 on a national scale and maintaining modern educational facilities, Vietnam couldn't help adopting Quốc Ngữ to facilitate national education asap and finally get rid of the illiterate.

Now, thanks to the educational eagerness which is one of the unique characters of socialist regimes(because of the necessity of propaganda), Vietnam has a high literacy rate and a sufficient study resources, so I think it is high time that you adopted 漢字 and 漢文(文言/classical chinese and its works) education in secondary schools as your own classics, like Japan does.

How do you feel about this?

p.s. It seems that you might misinterpret my intention. I apologise to you for the lack of a enough amount of information.

I don't intend to revive Chu han and Chu nom as common, normal and daily letters. As you know, it is terribly too much complicated for commoners with insufficient resources to master. So I didn't mean that you should teach it in primary school to replace Quoc Ngu, which is of course impossible.

All I'd like to suggest is that you might be better off teaching classics of your own and china's in secondary schools, like Japan and Korea do. At the intermediate level, the educational authorities all over the world tend to inject into students tradition, social justice, and national history…in the so-called "social study" classes. This is because the states(Quốc gia)want students to be a new generation of the "nation(Mọi người)", so the educational facilities make efforts to hand over such information. classics are one of the most important subjects in these terms, because it's linked with the nation's history and the concept of nationalism. This is why the authorities want people to study them, while there seems to be no point in learning such a boring discipline at the first glance.

In Vietnam, premodern cultural and intellectual works were made based on Chinese influence and its nationalisation process. Therefore, to study classics and make students associate them with the country's long history and its fertile culture, and get them to have a sense of belonging to the nation, the teaching of chu nom and chu han would be very effective. Thus, I just recommend teaching it in secondary schools(junior and senior high school).

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