In order to understand the Vietnamese soul, gentleness should be taken. Generally speaking, a Vietnamese is stripped of his aggressiveness except when someone makes him lose face, in particular his honor. Forgiveness is something very Vietnamese. Honor is one of the qualities a confucianist Vietnamese tries to conserve until the end of his life. The jade that melts can conserve its whiteness, the consumed bamboo still keeps its stem straight.
Individual existence is very light compared to that of honor.
Those are the sentences that sum up the state of mind of the confucianist Vietnamese. The king had no children. He did not contest those proposals but never took his father's recommendations into account. However, wanting to know the intentions of his children, he asked them for advice on this subject. A younger son of his incited him to usurp the throne.