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Grand Historian now lets come back to our talk earlier.
I think a thousand years occupied made us somewhat accustomed to your cultures. Hence the claim that Kinh Duong is descended from Shennong.
However, as I said, all our history pre-occupied is somewhat mixed. I will not go as far as say that all of them is make up. I think we did have a kind of government, we did have our own culture (the way we act, the food, the clothes, etc.)
Then the occupied happened, we take some folklore of you, some of us and some real evidences. With what we have our historians make an assumptions about whats going on before Chinese come in as our history pre-occupied.
We also deeply affect by the Confucius, hence we honor your sage kings and some of your cultural heroes.
All of these happened because as i said in some posts before, China have one huge cultures and it affects everyone around. It just like Roman used Greece gods to make theirs. Greece and Egypt gods share many similarity. Even modern religion still take something from Roman/Greece gods.
Still, is it abit harsh when you said that we stole your things and make it ours? When our dynasty held rites to honor your kings and heroes, I think they know that those heroes are CNese. They did not say that Shennong or Confucius or關羽 are VNese did they?. If anything you should be proud that your history could make such an huge affect to your neighbor nations.
Within all of that, I acknowledge that you are great, but we VNese still have some of our own stuffs. We are a sovereign nations for few thousands years, and we still are. We are not belongs to you (or we are just as belong to you as Iran once belonged to Greece).
to Jlaw I choose to not completely believe in what my or your gov given because in the past both govs sometimes made stupid claims. As long as CNese authorities said that theres nothing ever happenned in Tianmen, I think I should keep any information they provided as "questionable". Thats why I choose english sources, US may sometimes shady as fck but I still think they are some what more trustable.
Man I really want to talk with a more educated CNese (im talking abt you Grand Historian) to see CNese ppl point of view without going through stupid highschool argument