Confucius is the timeless icon of Chinese people who always deserve the absolute respect, and adoration as the greatest teacher since 6th century BC. Confucius is an ancient Chinese philosopher, he was born in 551 and died in 497 BC. Therefore, his teaching has influenced deeply into Chinese people with the social culture, morality, including the social courtesy, politics throughout more than 2,600 years in Chinese history.
Confucianism became the religious Ruism has spread throughout the monarchic dynasties in China, nowadays, Confucianism still influences Chinese society, and somewhere else. Actually, in the days of yore, Chinese conquerors, mostly the aggressive Han’s ethnic reflected in invasion of Chinese empires to occupy many countries in the region. The art of war of an ancient strategist Sun Tzu contributed to the military concerns with the stratagems for the conquerors.
The invaders also brought Confucianism to teach the people living in colonies with morality including respect for the foreign enemy, actually, the ancient Chinese people like saint Confucius, and his pupil Mencius (or Mengzi) as the sub-saint. The icons of invaders were respected and adored in the occupied countries. The wonderful tactic of Chinese dynasties applied in the colonies when the occupied people respect Confucius, Mencius are the icons of the conqueror to brainwash the people. French conqueror tried to brainwash the Vietnamese people, actually, the education with the term“Nos Ancêtres sont Gaulois”, therefore, France failed because the Gaulois are the white people, but Confucius was Asian, and the academics of Vietnamese people learned the Chinese language and also respected Confucius, Mencius, and other Chinese icons.
The tactic of Chinese conquerors in the days of yore succeeded to convince the colonial people to show respect to Confucius, the iconic enemy as their great teacher. It is like the fake anti-Vietcong in Western (the fake opponents), including the innocent people to condemn communists who violate human rights, but they also respect” Vietcong’s leader Hồ Chí Minh” as the hero.
Vietnamese people were the victims of Chinese invasion, the people suffered thousand years of Chinese invading dynasties including Mongol rule, and Qing dynasty. Mostly, Chinese conquerors succeeded to spread Chinese language, and Confucianism into Vietnam’s society, and brainwashed the Vietnamese intellectuals who learned Chinese language, and also respected Confucius, the timeless teacher of Chinese people. The Vietnamese academics promoted life in government by the Chinese language, and Confucianism, so they considered China was the land of saints.
However, the ancient Vietnamese people bravely fought against the invaders and tried to escape the Chinese language rooted from thousand years. In 13th century, under the rule of Vietnamese king Trần Nhân Tông, an academic named Nguyễn Thuyên, or Hàn Thuyên deviced the NÔM language (tiếng Nôm) but the writing based on Chinese language. However, after an Avignonese Jesuit missionary and lexicographer Alexander de Rhode came to Vietnam, he wrote the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum, the first trilingual Vietnamese-Portuguese-Latin dictionary published in 1651, and the own Vietnamese language populated. Therefore, Vietnam’s Communist Party propagated its language came from the French colony and condemned Catholics. Indeed France invaded Vietnam in the 19th century. The incident is like Vietcong propagated” fighting against empire American” from May 1959, Hồ Chí Minh ordered Major General Bùi Xuân Đăng to establish the special task force, code 559 gathering 100,000 laborers to repair the abandoned road linking Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia, it was Hồ Chí Minh trails. Therefore, the US Army just came to Vietnam in 1965 after the pressure of North Vietnam increased, and the Red wave spread in the region.
Missionary Alexander de Rhode helped Vietnamese people to escape the influential language of the Chinese language. Nowadays, Vietnamese people have the own language based on Latin alphabet, but the gender discrimination culture to deserve the priority for male faded, although some social vestiges of Confucianism still remain in the families.
The relations between language and eating coincided, it is wonderful, but it happened thousand years of human history. Vietnamese people concern the term” eating and speaking” reflects on eating and writing. The people write pictographic language in Middle-East and India, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and others, the eating is applied by the fingers. Chinese language influenced in Japanese, Korean people eating by the chopsticks. The Western countries use forks and knives for eating. Therefore, the Vietnamese people speak, and writing based on Latin but eating with chopsticks. After Geneva Conference signed on July 20, 1954, North Vietnam ruled by communist regime with leader Hồ Chí Minh, and South Vietnam applied the democratic government. At the North, Mr. Trường Chinh (real name was Đặng Xuân Khu), a pro-China’s Communist Party, the high ranking cadre of the Worker’s Party of Vietnam, or Vietnam’s Communist Party, he proposed the Vietnamese people returning Chinese language, he claimed the Vietnamese language based on the Latin alphabet comes from colonial France, but the major members in the Political Bureau rejected because the wing of Soviet-Union seized the power in the party.
Confucianism became the counter-revolutionary ideology after the atheist party of Mao Tse Tung robbed the authentic government of Chinese people in 1949. The communism, or Maoists has not accepted any theories, religions, or the different ideologies, so the Ruism declined, actually the Culture Revolution campaign of Chairman Mao perpetuated from 1966 to 1976, the horrible time of all regions, and the people. The Red Guard crazily smashed down the major monuments, the Buddhist temples including Confucius Institutes. Therefore, after the bloodshed campaigns plus the barbarous policies applied, Chinese people distrust the Maoists to cheat Chinese people with the roast Peking duck drawing on paper, the communist paradise turned into the hell of communist paradise with the major population living in the poverty, so China’s Communist Party exploits Confucianism as the shield to cheat Chinese people, and also rescue the atheist regime in the low tide of trust, so the Confucius Institutes spread in China mainland and overseas. Actually, the Confucius Institutes grew in Western countries labeled the cultural development. Instead, the Confucius Institutes are the den of spy networks, and propaganda stations operate in the” counter-revolutionary countries”.
The gender discrimination of Confucius’s teaching conflicts with the social valuation including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations. On the other hand, Confucianism teaches the social culture is like the Sharia Law of the Taliban and some bigot Muslim countries. The one-child policy of China’s Communist Party killed millions of girl babies that come from Confucianism. The term of Asian people warns” A doctor wrongly treats, a patient killed-A national leader get the wrong, one generation killed-A teacher misleads the teaching, many generations killed”. So the Confucianism has affected Chinese people since the 6th century BC, the dire consequences have had throughout Chinese history.
The Confucianism promotes the social relation based on three levels applying between the people to king, father and children (not mother and children), and husband and wife (the wife must obey husband). Commonly, Confucianism advises three core principles with filial piety, humaneness, and ritual as some documents highlighted. The social culture of Confucianism reflects the five beliefs or five virtues based on some documents:
1-Yi: righteousness: Chinese conquerors were the pupils of Confucius, but they invaded and colonized the other countries in the region. It is not righteousness. The kings, including tyrant kings, were the adherents of Ruism. Nowadays, China’s Communist Party carries out the global hegemonic ambition, the world condemns, but it is the righteousness of the Red dynasty in Beijing, is it?
2-Xin: honesty and trustworthiness:
The Thirty-Six Stratagems of Sun Tzu reflects in the art of war when the strong state used the force to occupy the other countries, so the honesty and trustworthiness contradicted in the teachings of Confucius. The stolen technology, stolen trademarks, the counterfeits that reflect the honesty and trustworthiness, is it?
3-Chung: loyalty to the state
It means the people must obey the order of the king who represented the state to rule the people. In the days of yore, the emperor had the right to kill everyone and decided anything in the country. Nowadays, China’s Communist Party forces Chinese people must obey the order of the Red dynasty with the communist emperors Mao Tse Tung, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and now Xi Jinping. For more than 2,600 years, the social culture in China has never changed.
4-Li: includes ritual, propriety, etiquette, etc.
The hypocritical ritual is a farce when the male forces the female, or espouse to pay the respect and obey the order as the servant in their family. On the other hand, the ritual of Confucianism promotes the supremacy male in society, and the people must pay the respect by ritual to the king including the tyrant emperor, the dynasty officials, or the occupied people to pay the ritual with the conquerors. The ritual culture conducts the bribery, it is among the courtesy of the dishonest components, and the distorted ritual created the traditional bribery culture of the dynasties, and now the communist government in the mainland. Nowadays, China’s Communist Party has applied the ritual tactic to bribe the corrupt politicians, actually, the corrupt leaders worldwide as the presidential robber Joe Biden in America after the ritual applied to pay $US 1.5 billion for Hunter Biden, and the 46th illegal president Joe Biden expose the ritual attitude to respect his great master Xi Jinping, so Joe Biden gives the US interest, and also creates an opportunity for China to control the world
5-Hsiao: love within the family, love of parents for their children, and love of children for their parents
The wife, children are the victims of Confucianism is like the female in Muslim countries have suffered the bad treatment of Sharia Law. Particularly, the father in the family of Confucianism is the boss or the dictator in each family.
-The child bribe is among the practices of Confucianism, in the days of yore, the wealthy persons, government officials could marry under age girls. The child bribe culture is reflected in the Vietnamese folk verses:
Get married at thirteen (có chồng từ thuở mười ba)
When I am eighteen, I have five children (Đến năm mười tám, thiếp đà năm con)
-Polygamy become the culture of Confucianism: a man can have many wives as a proverb in Vietnamese society: “Trai năm thê, bảy thiếp-Gái chính chuyên một chồng” (man can help five official wives, and seven sub-wives). The female of Confucianism is as the sex slave, and slaver in the husband’s family. The absolute power of male reflects a proverb” Phu xướng, phụ tùy” (husband suggests, the wife must obey) (*)
The dangerous teaching of Confucius with the three core principles are filial piety, humaneness, and ritual became the tragic stories in the days or yore described a woman helped her mother law in law to find her son who worked far away, while mother in law was hungry, she cut her meat at the arm to feed mother in law. A loyal servant cut his arm’s meat to feed the deposed prince. A loyal servant killed his baby to make the special meal for the emperor. The filial piety of Confucius conducts the cannibal culture in China, so the unborn baby carcass cooked with herbs for the virile medicine for male is horrible. In the bloodshed campaign of Mao Ste Tung, and China’s Communist Party, the peasants paid the loyalty with Chairman Mao by eating the meat of landlord, and the counter-revolutionary persons.
Confucius left many quotes, Chinese people concern as the golden frame, and the jade rule, among those, a quote highlights” do not do to others what you don’t want to be done to you”. The hypocritical teaching of Confucius conflicts the reality when the monarchic dynasties of the Chinese empire invaded, and colonized, and applied the barbarous policies as Vietnamese people suffered for thousand years occupied, and enslaved by Chinese conquerors. The echo of horrible time remain in Vietnamese history, Chinese officials did
Chinese thugs forced the Vietnamese people came in the jungle for hunting the ivory, and the rhinoceros horn
(Giặc Tàu bắt dân Việt Nam lên rừng săn ngà voi và sừng tê giác)
Chinese thugs forced the Vietnamese people diving in water to find the pearl
(Giặc Tàu bắt dân Việt Nam xuống biển mò ngọc trai).
Certainly, everyone, including the ancient Vietnamese people hate whoever including Confucius raised the hypercritical speech” do not do to others what you don’t want to be done to you”. Do not comply with what Confucius taught, let’s review the Confucianism influenced in China, and other countries occurred for thousand years of history.
Confucianism is obsolete, its theory reflects the old model of Chinese society. Actually, gender discrimination can not apply while the world community respects human rights. Nevertheless, Chinese people pride the Confucius thoughts, they believed the teaching was enough, and the people didn’t need to find the others. The inventions framed in Confucianism, and ruined, Chinese people was the first discover the gunpower from 9th century, the formula completed in 1232, but Chinese people used the gunpower to make the fireworks for the king’s coronation, new house’s celebration, wedding, the Lunar New Year, and the party of wealthy people. Therefore, the Western explorers arrived in China, learned the gunpower’s formula, and brought it to Europe to make the gun. In the high tide of colonial era, European countries used the gun to tear China into many parts, it is the term” the word made in China to stab Chinese”. Nevertheless, the communism or Maoists framed the inventions of Chinese people when anything is led by socialism, even the stolen economic pattern called” the free market is led by socialism”. Confucianism and communism failed in China, so the stolen technology becomes the traditional character of China’s Communist Party after US President Richard Nixon made the historic visit to Beijing in 1972. It created an opportunity for the professional burglar China’s Communist Party to apply the stolen skills into multiple forms to respond to the invention’s shortage while the global hegemonic ambition is bigger than the capacity/.
NOTES: (*) No one understands the communist than the victims, the writer is a victim of Vietcong in the war, and after the war. Moreover, the writer experiences Confucianism rooted in the society after thousand years colonized by Chinese dynasties. The negative practices of Confucianism were recognized by the Vietnamese people. The details of Confucianism wrote in the fifth book” A humble Vietnamese woman” published in the US in September 2015
(thedawnmedia.com)