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Culture | The moon boy | |  Long, long time ago there was a clever boy whose name was Cuoi. He
did nothing with his cleverness but to play trick on people around him.
He lived with his uncle and aunt who were usually suffered from his
cheats.
Once day Cuoi came to the field and broke the bad new to the
uncle that his wife had fell down from the ladder and bled. The man was
so frighten that he ran to his home without saying a word. Cuoi at that
time reached the house before his poor uncle by a short cut then broke
another bad new to his aunt that her husband was collided by the
buffalo and was going to died. The poor woman was scared and
immediately ran out to the field. Suddenly she bumped to a man and
recognized that it was her husband who was panting and sweating like
her. The poor couple came back with anger and decided to imprison him
into a bamboo cage then drifted him in the river.
In the afternoon
when Cuoi was carried to the river's bank, he regretfully said sorry to
them and asked them to come back home to bring him a book hidden behind
the basket of rice that taught him telling lie as the last favour. They
both agreed and returned home to satisfy their curiosity without saying
a word.
After that Cuoi saw a blind man passed by. He then asked the
man to untight the cage if he wanted to have his eyes cured. At last
Cuoi was free and hid himself in a bamboo grave and luckily found a jar
of gold. He came back and gave it to his uncle and his aunt to atone
for faults while the poor blind man was waiting for his eyes treated.
Later
Cuoi got married with a girl in the village and went on pulling
people's leg. Once morning he came into the forest and saw a tiger
mother picking leaves from a kind of tree to cure her son's wound.
Immediately the wound was recovered and the tiger baby could follow his
mother to continue their trip. Cuoi grasped the opportunity to uproot
the tree and rose it in the garden behind his house. He called the tree
Banyan and took good care to it. He always reminded his wife that the
tree was magic one so it was impossible to pour dirty water or dump the
garbage at its root otherwise it would fly to the heaven. His poor wife
sometimes envied with the tree so she dumped garbage at the tree root
once day.
When Cuoi came home he found the tree was shaking and
flying higher and higher in the sky. He tried to hold its root to pull
it back but he couldn't. The tree actually pulled him farther and
farther from the earth until it reached the moon.
It is said that
there is still image of Cuoi sitting at the root of Banyan tree and
looking down to see the world and there is also a Vietnamese saying "
lie as Cuoi". |
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