Editing Ho Chi Minh (section)

==Early life==
Hồ Chí Minh was born as Nguyễn Sinh Cung in 1890 in the village of Làng Chùa or [[Hoàng Trù]] in [[Kim Liên, Nghệ An|Kim Liên]] commune, [[Nam Đàn]] district, [[Nghệ An]] province, in [[Central Vietnam]] which was then a [[Annam (French protectorate)|French protectorate]]. Although 1890 is generally accepted as his birth year, at various times he used four other birth years:{{sfn|Trần Dân Tiên|1994|p=42}} 1891,<ref>Yen Son. "Nguyen Ai Quoc, the Brilliant Champion of the Revolution." Thuong Tin Hanoi. 30 August 1945.</ref> 1892,{{efn|In his application to the French Colonial School – "Nguyen Tat Thanh, born 1892 at Vinh, son of Mr. Nguyen Sinh Huy (sub doctor in literature)"}} 1894{{efn|He told Paris Police (Surete) he was born 15 January 1894.}} and 1895.<ref>Ton That Thien 18, 1890 is the most likely year of his birth. There is troubling conflicting evidence, however. When he was arrested in Hong Kong in 1931, he attested in court documents that he was 36. The passport he used to enter Russia in 1921 also gave the year 1895 as his birth date. His application to the Colonial School in Paris gave his birth year as 1892</ref> He lived in his father [[Nguyễn Sinh Sắc]]'s village of Làng Sen in Kim Liên until 1895 when his father sent him to [[Huế]] for study. He had three siblings: his sister Bạch Liên (Nguyễn Thị Thanh), a clerk in the [[French Army]]; his brother [[Nguyễn Sinh Khiêm]] (Nguyễn Tất Đạt), a [[geomancy|geomancer]] and [[Traditional Chinese herbs|traditional herbalist]]; and another brother (Nguyễn Sinh Nhuận), who died in infancy. As a young child, Cung (Hồ) studied with his father before more formal classes with a scholar named Vương Thúc Quý. He quickly mastered [[chữ Hán]], a prerequisite for any serious study of [[Confucianism]] while honing his colloquial Vietnamese writing.<ref name="Duiker"/>{{rp|21}} In addition to his studies, he was fond of adventure and loved to fly [[kite]]s and go fishing.<ref name="Duiker"/>{{rp|21}} Following Confucian tradition, his father gave him a new name at the age of 10: ''Nguyễn Tất Thành.''

His father was a Confucian scholar and teacher and later an imperial magistrate in the small remote district of Binh Khe ([[Qui Nhơn]]). He was demoted for abuse of power after an influential local figure died several days after having received 102 strokes of the [[Caning|cane]] as punishment for an infraction.<ref name="Duiker" />{{rp|21}} His father was eligible to serve in the imperial bureaucracy, but he refused because it meant serving the French.{{sfn|Hunt|2016|p=125}} This exposed Thành (Hồ) to rebellion at a young age and seemed to be the norm for the province. Nevertheless, he received a French education, attending ''[[Quốc Học – Huế High School for the Gifted|Collège Quốc học]]'' (''[[lycée]]'' or secondary education) in Huế in Central Vietnam. His disciples, [[Phạm Văn Đồng]] and [[Võ Nguyên Giáp]], also attended the school, as did [[Ngô Đình Diệm]], the future President of South Vietnam and political rival.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nguoi-viet.com/viet-nam/hang-tram-nguoi-cong-khai-lam-le-gio-tt-ngo-dinh-diem/|title=Ngo Dinh Diem and ho Chi Minh|date=3 November 2018|publisher=nguoiviet.com}}</ref>

His early life is uncertain but there are some documents indicating activities regarding an early revolutionary spirit during French-occupied Vietnam, but conflicting sources remain. Previously, it was believed that Thành (Hồ) was involved in an anti-slavery (anti-''[[corvée]]'') demonstration of poor peasants in Huế in May 1908, which endangered his student status at ''Collège Quốc học''. However, a document from the [[Archives Nationales d'Outre-mer|Centre des archives d'Outre-mer]] in France shows that he was admitted to ''Collège Quốc học'' on 8 August 1908, which was several months after the anti-''corvée'' demonstration (9–13 April 1908).{{efn|name="HL1"}}