Ho Chi Minh city-name change and history of evolution

Lift the Ho Chi Minh City, my mind flashes that Duras's the lover of Saigon: that is the dark streets of diffuse and vague, sad atmosphere. The impression from the film "Indochina": morning mist of rubber plantation, colonial elegance and cruel. Vietnam war movie in Saigon is burned villages, the US Army's withdrawal from the Kung fled and confusion. From Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City, name change records a history of evolution.

In the 17th century, the migration to the South Viet Nam person arrives in their later called Saigon.

At that time, the original inhabitants of the Khmer people of Cambodia. 1859, France people occupying Sai. From Saigon to become France Indochina bustling economic centre and France in the colonial Center of South Vietnam. With the outbreak of World War II and the Viet Nam nationalism awakening, France losing on Viet Nam's control, when the 1954 France following the withdrawal from the Viet Nam Viet Nam was divided into two parts of the South and North Vietnam, the capital of Saigon as South Vietnam. Subsequently, the Viet Nam war. This is a band to the United States and Viet Nam people suffering the pain of war. When Viet Nam Communist Party culminated in the protracted war, 1975 Viet Nam regained unity, their leaders have passed since the Ho Chi Minh. However, Hu Zhi-min in the hearts of the people still enjoy great prestige, they will be renamed Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon to commemorate the national hero.

Witness the evolution of Ho Chi Minh City, there are many old buildings.

Their name and the name of the city, with history. Located in the center of the unified City Hall's House (Reunification Conference Hall), completed in 1966. It was built in the preexistence 1873 France House (Norodom Palace). In 1954 after France's withdrawal from Viet Nam, it became the Presidential Palace in South Vietnam. February 1963, dissident air raids, the Presidency has been seriously damage of building structure. South Vietnamese President Ngo DinhDiem determined the construction of a new independent House (Independence Palace). 1975 year 30 April 11: 30, Viet Nam PLA troops occupy separate House tanks. Independent House into a military Commission's VCP municipal headquarters. December 1975, independent House became the national unified venue. To mark this event, independent of Government renamed the unified City Hall.

Now, the consolidated City Hall has become famous tourist attractions in Ho Chi Minh City, attracting a large number of domestic and foreign tourists.

Here, not only can you feel the history of changes, you can experience the fusion of Oriental and Occidental culture. Design is the unified town hall in France of Viet Nam on tree architects Wu (Ngo Viet Thu), in his design, the concept of modern architecture in the West and the Oriental culture of elements to a perfect balance. The front of the building, the architects well-intentioned implies several Chinese characters: "mouth, XING (well), Gil," reflecting the Asian philosophy of life. At the same time, the whole building design neat, sufficient lighting, functional, is typical of modern Western architectural patterns.

Square cultural fusion of thing not only reflected in the architecture, but also reflect the change in Viet Nam and the development of language.

When the Chinese arrive in Viet Nam for a period of time, will be surprised to find that although the writing in different ways, some of the Viet Nam Wen pronunciation and meaning and Chinese are very close. Indeed, the modern Chinese language by Viet Nam and French influences. So far, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam Museum also exhibits at France missionaries Alexandre de Rhodes photo. This is the name of the seventeenth-century France to Viet Nam's missionaries of Viet Nam text Roman, forming a separate written text ("Chöõ QuÂc Ngöõ"). This at first is only applied to the Catholic Church to teach the Gospel and France colonial management of local people, now become the Viet Nam national use of written text.

Compared to the development of Viet Nam text, Ho Chi Minh City Museum of history, of course, much simpler.

Like many buildings in Ho Chi Minh City, its name with the history of development and change. It's great "Blanchard de la Brosse Museum". After France's withdrawal from the colonists, 1956 renamed "Sai Viet Nam National Museum", this name has been used to unified Viet Nam in 1975. In August 1979, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam Museum of history was established. The Museum exhibits many ancient archaeological discoveries and the period of the southern region of works of art.

Standing at the Museum of history of Viet Nam was accompanied by a map, I visited two Viet Nam young briefed to Viet Nam's territory, cannot help but also relate to the topic of war.

They said that although a lot of people in Viet Nam were killed in the Vietnam war, but now Viet Nam and the United States maintains good relations. These two young people, a company in Korea, a force in the United States company. When we work together with motorcycle through the city, when we talk about modern media, networking, transnational corporations, joint tastes of Hollywood stars, I found the history, or the war did not give the younger generation to leave too much heavy or shadows. In fact, this is a very good attitude. After all, we understand the history, not to bear hatred.

Departure from Viet Nam of that morning, I sat in the hotel's buffet restaurant.

At the same table is a bit old European gentleman, he is was a front coffee. Then, the temporary table to a Western couple with three children in Asia. Settle the children sit down, start to care for their breakfast. Elderly see this scene, eyes suddenly become so kind and gentle. He is dedicated to watching them for a long time, and then I put out three fingers and thumbs up. I know, he must be like to say, they suddenly adopted three children that's remarkable. At that moment, really feel that this world so sweet!

-Modified the article the Ho Chi Minh City ... "Miss Saigon" published in the South window of 2002. 12, this is the original.