Yes, let's leave it at that. We were like a couple but now divorced, and now it's all been the past. Vietnamese nowaday want nothing that resembles "Chinese" . Any celebration we may have had similar to Chinese is Vietnamized. Appreciate your leaving us our of East-Asia crap.
Yes, no peaceful intention, but Siam and Anh were very too flattered, too confident of winning, but not necessarily lowering their guards, too silly just to march their troops there to hold peace talks.
The Wikipedia translation glossed over too much details. The Viet page has a fuller...