Did Vietnamese people come from ancient China?

The Nam Viet territory spanned what is now known as Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunan province of China, which also explains why the Vietnamese ... The similarity in languages, in culture, and family names, and the connection to the Old Shu Kingdom all point to the fact that the Vietnamese ancestry is from Chinese. read more

Second, the people of Vietnam came from north Vietnam. There is no doubt about this. There is no proof about a major demographic change from the ancient to modern times. If Vietnamese came from China, there must have been evidence of a great genetic change. There is no such evidence. read more

In a 2013 book, professor emeritus of history at UCLA, Damodar R. SarDesai said that Vietnamese people were thought for a long time to have come from Tibet, but SarDesai said that more modern hypotheses indicate that Vietnamese people are a mixture of many peoples, peoples who are Mongoloid and non-Mongoloid. read more

The first ancient Kingdom of Vietnamese was Văn Lang ( 文朗國） where today was the north Vietnam and one part of two Guangs (兩廣) ( mainland China ). They were particularly associated with the Bronze Age Dong Son culture of Mainland SEAsia . read more