Symbolism in Vietnam: Hypotheses of development

The author examines the symbolism as a cultural and historical tradition of Vietnamese life in terms of its impact on the nation-building, modernization and international integration policy. This practice is based primarily on centuries of national experience of collective economic activities, poverty and artistic creation in the spirit of ancestor veneration. The author attempts to discover the origins of the myth of the birth of the Vietnamese people. He analyses symbolism in the European sense too, meaning that many processes are seen as communication and when Buddhism and Marxism are integrated of in the form of Ho Chi Minh's worship. The paper is accompanied with illustrations that express character and tendencies of transformation of inward cultural space of Vietnam.

Symbolism, State, Dongson culture, Buddhism, Christianity, Marxism, the external symbohc tradition, modernization, integration