Vietnam Confucianism - Some General Specialties

Confucianism has followed the footsteps of the Chinese and entered Vietnam, but owing to some particular reasons, it has been modified with distinct features, differentiating it with the Chinese original version. This research concentrates on analyzing some basic characteristics of Vietnamese Confucianism, which is that Vietnamese Confucianism is practical Confucianism, with its main focus on the realistic efficiency rather than academic function, or that the moral standard of Vietnamese Confucianism is discrete, and its male-dominated mindset is not as strict as that in Chinese Confucianism. Additionally, in this writing, the authors mentioned that these specialties are the result of the fact that Confucianism in Vietnam has been combined with different ideologies, theories and religions, and Vietnamese Confucianists have successfully “Vietnamize” its initial version…