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The Golden Starfruit Tree (Vietnamese: Ăn khế trả vàng, lit. 'Eating starfruit and paying with gold' or simply Vietnamese: Cây khế, lit. 'The starfruit tree') is a Vietnamese folktale. It tells the story of a poor farmer who is paid handsomely by a magical bird after letting it feed on his starfruit tree, and his rich older brother who ...
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Famous Vietnamese fairy tales include The Hundred-knot Bamboo Tree and The Story of Tấm and Cám. [1] Various tales have been translated into English, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] as well as folk tales containing some elements of fairy tales.
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The tree produces small, inconspicuous white flowers in terminal panicles. Its oval fruits, 6–9 cm (2.4–3.5 in) long, are borne in bunches of 12 or more on a long stalk. Over several weeks, the fruit fall to the ground while still green and hard, then turn golden-yellow as they ripen. [1]
The stories fall under the genre of Vietnamese comic or joke stories (vi:Truyện cười Việt Nam). The moral of the tale often concerns characterisation of the generous and stingy. [1] During and after the independence struggle the moral of the tales may also take anti-colonial motifs.
The stepmother tells Tấm to climb on an areca tree to gather its fruit for the ceremony. While Tấm is doing so, the stepmother chops down the tree, causing Tấm to fall down and die. The stepmother takes Tấm's clothes for Cám to wear. Cám goes to the sovereign's palace and lies to him that Tấm had unfortunately drowned in a pond by ...
The Hundred-knot Bamboo Tree (also The Bamboo of 100 Joints) (Vietnamese: Cây tre trăm đốt) is a Vietnamese fable and parable, Vietnamese fairy tale and part of Vietnamese oral tradition. The story is included in anthologies of Vietnamese stories. [1] The story is about a laborer who is exploited by a wealthy landowner. In order to keep ...