Vietnam Travel Haiku - Only The Sages Are Treasured Poem by john tiong chunghoo

expelled Chinese
their sages live on in
the hearts of Vietnamese

The Vietnamese repelled the Chinese in the 10th and 11th Century
after being ruled by them for a thousand years. However, Chinese sages such as Confucius and Mencius still reigned in the hearts of the Vietnamese. At the Museum of Literature in Hanoi, scholars still thronged the temple here to pray to the ancient literary sages to fare well in their college examinations. The lifesize statues of these sages make one feel as if they are still alive.