Inner Peninsula is close to China's core civilization and is within the main cultural radiation circle, so political civilization entities were produced very early. "Han Shu, Geographical Records", " Later Han Shu , Southern Barbarians Southwest Yi Biography", "New Tang Book·Biography of Piao Kingdom", and "Zhu Fan Zhi" written by the Song people have recorded relatively detailed records of various central and southern regimes.
And for a long time, these regimes surrendered to the Huaxia Empire with the Central Plains as the core. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they were clearly positioned as affiliated with China, regularly paid tribute to the Huaxia capital, and regarded learning Chinese etiquette as a compulsory course for their own nobles.
As for why the old map of Vietnam always draws Laos, Cambodia into the territory? This starts with the decline of the Chinese Empire, because China was defeated in the "Opium War" with Britain in 1840.
As the former "Celestial Kingdom" Qing Dynasty represents the inheritance of the Chinese Empire, it was nakedly exposed to the whole world with a tired attitude, becoming a chopping fish that can be divided by European powers at will.
As a sub-civilized area that has followed the Chinese Empire for a long time, Indochina Peninsula will inevitably become an important target of bullying when the boss is pulled down.
This is not the case in September 1858 when the French came to Asia and were interested in the eastern coastal areas of the Indochina Peninsula. So they asked the local Vietnamese regime to set up a consulate in a place called Danang , so that the French could better obtain local raw materials and dump their own industrial products.
. Since Vietnam did not do a good job of fully facing China at that time, it clearly stated that it refused. However, sometimes fists are "hard truths". If the Vietnamese don't give it to them, the French will rob them unscrupulously. Not only will they occupy Danang, but they also went deep into the hinterland of Vietnam to win Saigon in 1861.
holds the Vietnamese local regime tightly in his hands. However, Vietnam is an affiliate of the Qing Empire after all. When it decided to surrender to the Qing Empire, the Qing Empire clearly stated that it would maintain its security to the greatest extent.
So when the Vietnamese government was about to become a French puppet, the Qing Empire, which was also tired, told the French in 1883 that Vietnam was its territory, so please go away immediately, and for this reason, " Sino-French War " started fighting.
However, China, which is still in an agricultural civilization, is far inferior to France, a pioneer of the industrial revolution, and was forced to sign the Treaty of Tianjin in 1885, officially losing its sovereignty over Vietnam.
And through this war, France obtained all the territory of central and northern Vietnam and Cambodia, and determined its colonial order in the Indochina Peninsula. In October 1887, France's French colonial government was officially established in the Indochina Federation of France in the Indochina Peninsula.
In 1893, France wanted to expand further in the Indochina Peninsula, and Siam was the only sovereign state left on the Indochina Peninsula, which was undoubtedly the most ideal fat. So she tried every means to provoke a war and then forced Siam to cede land and pay compensation.
Since the western territory of Siam is approaching Britain, if Siam is completely annexed, it will cause direct confrontation between Britain and France. Therefore, the French only took one "Laos" in the war, and at this point the "French Indochina" with today's Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos as the main body was officially established.
It is precisely because these three countries have had a historical process of integrating into one in history, so it is not surprising that many "Vietnam Old Map" appear in Laos and Cambodia, because it may not only be drawn by Vietnam, but the entire "French Indochina".
