I only used AI to remove the text from the original. I overlaid all the new text and seals myself.
I’m Vietnamese and studied chữ Nôm/Chinese characters when I was in grade school in Vietnam, but I study abroad in the US now.
I only used AI to remove the text from the original. I overlaid all the new text and seals myself.
My maternal grandparents and mother are calligraphers, so I grew up learning and being exposed to Hán Nôm, although I am studying in the US at the moment.
I do think it's a shame we use Quốc ngữ these days, but it was a necessity for promoting literacy. But back then, many of our leadership had classical Chinese education. Bác Hồ had excellent classical Chinese and wrote beautiful poetry and calligraphy in Hán Nôm.
In an alternate timeline where we still use Hán Nôm, I'm sure we would retain a lot more Chinese word order, that's why I chose to use 越南社會主義共和 (Viêt Nam Xã hội Chủ nghĩa Cộng hòa) instead of 共和社會主義越南 (Cộng hòa Xã hội Chủ nghĩa Việt Nam) like the name of our country in real life. This is similar to how we used to say 越南民主共和 (Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa) - retaining the Chinese word order for official, formal, or institutional concepts that pull from Sino-Vietnamese exclusively.