Hendarto
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Look at the time scale of the Chu and Han dynastiesWhy did the Silk Road exist if people can't travel far over land? How did Han Dynasty establish relations with Central Asia?
You can see here Han tombs were all over Vietnam including clustering in Thanh Hoa, Thanh-Nghe is the region almost all Vietnamese rulers and resistance leaders were born or have ancestral ties, how did these tombs appear in Vietnam if people from China couldn't travel far?
Chu is believed by some to have been a Sinitic language, related to Old Chinese. Others have felt strongly that it's not. Mei Tsu-Lin and Jerry Norman, both well regarded scholars in their own right, wrote on Austroasiatic (Mon–Khmer) features in Chu writings. It's possible that it was Sinitic, and it's possible it was Austroasiatic, and in either case borrowed heavily from languages belonging to the other family. Borrowing was incredibly common, and muddies the waters when we're trying to trace origins.
Chu's grammar in terms of word order was not the same as Sinitic languages, and is more in line with Austroasiatic. Lexical items were quite different as well.
The genetic tie is o1b1 gene, it is the gene of Austroasiatic speakers and it was all over ancient China along the Middle Yangtze, the name of the Yangtze itself has an AA root
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He is mistaking the natives of VIetnam for VIetnamese
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You can clearly see there Vietnam was originally inhabited by Austroasiatics but as the data shows modern Vietnamese are genetically distant to them, those AA were conquered by Tai people, these Tai were the Dong Son people, what is the marker of Dong Son culture? Bronze drums, here is Zhuang playing with their drums
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Now read what ancient Vietnamese think of those drums
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The Unimportance of Bronze Drums in Việt History
In the second half of the twentieth century, the bronze drum became a symbol of “the antiquity of Việt nation.” However, from the time that the people we refer to as the Việt started to record info…leminhkhai.wordpress.com
Look at the population map of Han Dynasty in 2AD and explain why Guangzhou is less populated than Hanoi if you say only sea travel is possible from China to Lingnan?
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Here is the Chu period
And here is the Han Dynasty
- 202 BC – 9 AD; 25–220 AD
- (9–23 AD: Xin)
It was not until 111 bce that the Han conquered Nanyue So 100 years after the end of Chu state. By that time no more Chu people were left. They were all assimilated. 100 years is Plenty of time to build roads or find a trail to Vietnam. Silk Road came into existence, only after the Han defeated the Xiongnu and guaranteed safe passage through the Hexi corridor to the west,
The so-called Sino loan word in Vietnamese stems from Middle Chinese and existed after the 4th century CE. From Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui, Tang onward.
Chu most likely spoke old Chinese at the end of its existence.
Putonghua, Cantonese, Hakka, and all the other southern dialects derive from middle Chinese Hokkien or Minnan the only exceptions derive from old Chinese

