On the day of the French defeat, local residents subsequently ordained a ritual so as to pay homage to the ghosts of those who died so far from home. Regardless of whether the battle victims were from the mainland province of Hunan or from far-off France, all were buried within close proximity of one another, and received the same burial rites-an ending that is at once ironic and tragic.
兩方浴血搏鬥之下，屍橫遍野，淡水居民於是在擊敗法軍的日子，定下了一個「敗滬尾」的祭典，憑弔這些橫死他鄉的孤魂野鬼，不論是來自中國湖南的湘軍，或是家在地球另一邊的法軍，埋骨咫尺之間，共享一縷香煙，何等諷刺，又何等淒涼。