INFLUENCES OF DAI VIET CIVILIZATION DURING NGUYEN LORD’S TERRITORIAL AGGRANDIZEMENT IN COCHINCHINA IN THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES

Abstract

This research paper aims to clarify some influences of Dai Viet civilization under the expansion of Nguyen Lords as well as lead to a recognition of Nguyen Lords’ role in Vietnamese culture preservation in Cochinchina during the 17th century and the 18th century. The author employs historical methods via a wide range of source materials and desk-research paper and logical method to generalize three locale points for this paper: (1) Dai Viet civilization contains new illustrations in clothing culture, housing culture and traffic culture; (2) The preservation of Vietnamese villages can be seen a copy of traditional villages in new territories, but it includes new social paradigms of the Chinese and the Khmerese; (3) Vietnamese people and other minorities performed their spiritual and religious culture through receiving new scholars of religions and beliefs to enrich Dai Viet civilization. The paper proves that there was a mass civilizational integration in Cochinchina during the 17th and the 18th century relied on perspectives of the civilizational history.