The duality in a traditional Vietnam revisited

In doing research on the traditional culture and society of Vietnam, scholarship notes the perceptible characteristics of heterogeneity, the existence of contrasting elements which seem to be inflexible, often sclerosis in the Vietnamese social and cultural complex, even religious life and political dialogue? With such rich and dimensional manifestations, on the basis of criticism and debates with Vietnamese and international scholars, the purpose of the article is to emphasize the fact that in Vietnam the contrast and the combination of the above-mentioned duality, dichotomy and counterbalance do not occur between two clear-cut systems considering as two people, two classes, or two civilizations. The existent base had originally from a wide range of elements of natural, residential and cultural conditions.

duality, tradition, Vietnam, culture, history, religions