Chinese Culture Influence

The spread of Chinese Civilization to Korea and Vietnam due the fact that China’s borders naturally surpass their great neighbor. According to History of World Societies, The Han Dynasty asserted sovereignty over vast regions from Korea in the east to Central Asia in the west of Vietnam in South. Once garrisons were established, traders were quick to follow, leading to considerable spread of Chinese material culture in East Asia. Chinese goods, especially silk, were in demand far beyond East Asia, promoting long-distance trade across Eurasia (179). For these reason the Chinese Civilization was influential because of their strong trademark, religion and governing with organization administrations of their territory.
The non-Chinese people saw the opportunity to be united with Qin Dynasty by intermarrying within families. As a results, they saw themselves as maintaining the high culture of the Han and looked on the emperors of the successive dynasties as upstarts–as
military men rather than men of culture (157). They saw the opportunities for their families to be connected with Qin Dynasty and to be apart of it and have the emperor’s guidance. So, being related to the Emperor gives a person a status.
The Chinese cultural influence to the neighboring states was remarkable due to the Silk Road trade of goods and not only goods but different types of information and lifestyles. Buddhism was also the key to maintaining the role among the elites. Chinese had greatly immense power to spread their culture among neighboring states either by power or by choice.
During 221 B.C.E., the Qin Dynasty initiates a strong government to enforce laws to noble and ordinary people to put everyone in place.
This is how dynasties were able to control distant frontier areas. Chinese cultural impact immensely onto The Vietnamese societies during the Chinese domination. For example, “The Chinese languages, arts, architecture, and music had a powerful impact on their Vietnamese’s counterparts (197). Vietnamese were overruled by 20 years such harshly enforcement laws and culture they have to follow. Though Vietnam society were prepared to receive benefits from Chinese government but not loose their identity. For example, Chinese administrators were assigned to replace the local nobility, political institutions were imposed and in top of it the Confucianism was treated as the official ideology (197). Chinese innovations were beneficial for the Vietnamese society, but the local elite groups were not content with how things were over-run by Chinese political
domination. Chinese influential in Korea started during the Bronze Age dated from the first millennium. According to the textbook, Chinese-Korean contact expanded during the Warring States Period when the state of Yan extended into part of Korea (198). Even though, Chinese cultural and political forms were profoundly influenced to the Korean Society they still developed their cultural and political identity. As stated, “In all three Korean Kingdoms Chinese was used as the language of government learning (198). Buddhism religions significantly created a great connection between Korea and China for Buddhist monks to travel back and forth to spread the Buddhism religion. As a result, the government ordered to build a Buddhist temple for the monks and nuns to perform ceremonies for the behalf of the emperor. China was not able to overrule Korea because of the strong leadership of Silla and Tang, who jointly allied to protect Korea but most to accommodate the aristocratic social structures.