Question

Who among the following was the founder of the “hoa hao movement” in Vietnam ?
A) Phan Chu trinh
B) Liang Quichao
C) Phan Boi Chau
D) Huyanh phu so

Answer 1

Hint:
A twenty-year-old visionary, Huyen Phu So, founded the Hoa Hao Movement, in Hoa Hao village in 1939. A Buddhist reform movement, which developed a military wing, Hoa Hao believes itself to be a continuation of the Buu Son Ky Huong (Strange Fragrance of Precious Mountain) sect which was started in Vietnam in 1849. This continuity notwithstanding, Hoa Hao integrates its own interpretation of the Mahayana tradition with the traditional cult of the ancestors (see Mahayana Buddhism).

Complete step by step solution:
Hao hao is the full 'phat Giao Hoa hao' Vietnamese Buddhist religious movement that was formed in 1939 by Buddhist reformers 'Huyung phu so'. The Hoa Hao , Along with the syncretic religious group cao dai , was One of the first groups to initiate armed hostilities against the French and later the Japanese consolidated.
Based in the prosperous Ne Kong River Delta area of southern Vietnam , where its adherents were mostly peasants, tenants and rural workers, the Hoa hao grew rapidly during the Japanese occupation in World War two. After the war it continued as an independent force in the Vietnam politics, opposing both the French consolidates and the Vietnam minh nationalist movement of ho chi Minh . After 1954 hoa hao began Armed opposition to the US backed government of President ngo dinh diem. At the time of diem's death in 1960s the hoa hao control of several southern and western provinces of South Vietnam. Though many hoa hao odherents joined the communist backed national liberation front in the late 1960s the hoa hao remained a powerful independent force in South Vietnam politics until the final victory of communist in 1975.

Thus, the correct option is (D).

Note:
The message of Huyen Phu which prophesied the coming of the Japanese and the defeat of the French appealed especially to sharecroppers and small farmers from the western Mekong Delta region. Growth at the beginning was rapid, the membership allegedly reaching 100,000 by 1940 and several hundred thousand by 1945. By the mid- 1970s officials were claiming a membership of three million, no doubt an overestimate of around two million. But a majority of the provinces of An Giang and Chau Doc were involved in the movement.