The Story of Putri Tangguk A Folklore From Jambi, Indonesia [PDF]

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The Story of Putri Tangguk A Folklore from Jambi, Indonesia There was a village in Jambi, Indonesia. The people were farmers. One of them was Putri Tangguk. She lived with her husband and her children. Putri Tangguk and her husband had a very small rice field. Amazingly, the rice field was able to harvest a lot of rice. Their harvest was always abundant. They put their harvest in their big barn. They were very happy with their life. Putri Tangguk always helped her husband in the rice field. One day, she said that she wanted to quit helping her husband. She wanted to take care of the children and mingle with the neighbours. In the morning, Putri Tangguk wanted to cook some rice. However she could not find any rice in the kitchen. She was surprised and she felt that she just took some rice from the barn and put it in the kitchen. Then, she went to the barn. Surprisingly, there was no rice in the barn. She immediately told her husband about the missing rice. "Look! The rice is gone. Our rice is stolen!" said Putri Tangguk. Putri Tangguk and her husband immediately went to the rice field. And after they finished, they brought the rice. On the way home, rain fell down heavily. The rain made the road slippery. Putri Tangguk fell down several times. She was really upset. Later, she asked her husband to put the rice on the road. "What for?" asked the husband. "The road is slippery. If we throw the rice on the field, we can step on it. Therefore the road is not going to be slippery. Don't worry, we have an amazing rice field right?" asked Putri Tangguk. Although he did not completely agree with her idea, the husband still threw the rice in front of them. The idea worked. Every time they stepped on the rice, they did not fall down. When they arrived home, their rice was only left a little. It was only enough for their dinner. However they were not worried. Tomorrow morning, they planned to go to their rice field and took a lot of rice. They planned to fill their barn. Surprisingly when they arrived, their rice field was full of grass. There was no rice at all. They were really confused. At night Putri Tangguk had a dream. An old man came to her and said, "You were really ungrateful. You treated us badly." "I am one of the rice you threw away on the road. You stepped on us! The god of the rice was really angry. He decided not to give you a lot of rice anymore. You can only get a little rice," said the old man. Putri Tangguk then woke up. She really regretted what she did. She knew it was wrong to throw away the rice but it was too late. She could only feel sorry.



The legend of jambi One upon a time,there lived in sumatra island a very beutiful girl,putri pinang masak.the girl was also a very kind-hearted person.this made everyone liked here so much.many youths and princess from other countries desired her to be his wife.nevertheless,she refused their proposals because she had not wanted to get married yet. One day,there was a very wealthy king,the king of the east kingdom,coming to here village.he proposed to marry her.putri pinang masak was afaird to refuse the king’s proposal altought she actually did not love the king,the ugly-faced man, at all.she knew that the king would be very angry and there would be a battel if she refused his desire. Exactly in the midnight,half of the castel was completely done.nevertheless,it look very beutiful.and when it was nearly dawn,all the work was almost ompletery done.putri pinang masak who had been spying on them all night became desperate.she realized that the condition she proposed to the king wats onlie hare way risfus mary him. And the castle was only decoracting and tidying the wall and the garden, putri pinang masak wan the rooster house. Light to might the rooster crow. Hearing the crowing of the roosters,the king stopped the workers doing their work.he remembered the agreement that the whole works should be finished before the rooosters crowed.then putri pinang masak ame to meet the king. And the king admitted that he had failed to fulfill the condition,building a castle in one night.then he gave up on his desire to marry putri pinang masak. Even he handed over his kingdom and all of his wealth to her. Since then,putri pinang masak became the princess of the east kingdom. And people changed the name of the kingdom into putri pinang masak kingdom. Meanwhile the kings rom java island called it with “jambi kingdom”. The word “Jambi” ame from “jambe” that had equivalent as “pinang”,a kind of small palm fruit.



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Legend of Jambi Long time ago, there was a good looking girl. She had white and reddish skin like ripe areca nut color. The people there called it ripe areca nut princess. His beauty spread everywhere. So many boys came to suit her, but the ripe areca nut princess did not intend to get married with anyone. The beauty of ripe areca nut princess was also heard by bad-faced King in Java Island. The King was well-known as strong, rich and respected King. The bad-faced King had a very wide territory under his authority, but she was still single. He came to suit ripe areca nut princess after hearing that she was very pretty.



The ripe areca nut princess was very confused, if she refused him, he would be very angry and the war would be happened. In the other hand, she did not want to be bad-faced king’s wife. Afterwards, the princess sought a way to defeat his marriage proposal. Finally, she answered, “I am agree to be your wife if you build me a big palace completed with household furnishing, swimming pool, and beautiful garden in one night. She gave him time from the sunset until the sunrise the day after. If you fall, you will not get married with me, and you have to give me all of your wealth.”



The bad-faced king agreed to fill her requirement. His asked his troops to gather immediately. When sun had set, they started to build the palace. At midnight, their job to build the palace almost finished. Now, the job left was to build the beautiful garden. Ripe areca nut princess was very afraid. All night long, she could not sleep tightly. She looked for away to defeat the king’s effort. After that, she went to the chicken coop and brought several bright lamps. Those chickens assumed that the sun had risen. They crowd and called back and forth. Because of the crowd, the king asked his troops to stop their jobs shortly.



“Why we must stop this job, Your Majesty? Our job is almost finished and the sun has not risen yet,” the troops said. “But the crowds of chicken have heard. That’s my promise to the princess. As a knight, I must be consistent with my promise!” the kings said. All of the troops stopped their job at that moment. Therefore, he gave all of his wealth to the ripe areca nut princess. The king was very sad and his heart had broken because he had failed to suit the beautiful princess. He even became impoverished. However, by realizing the king’s sincerity and honesty, ripe areca nut princess changed her words. She finally accepted the king’s married proposal to her.



“Sincerity, honesty, and consistency of Your Majesty make me accept Your Majesty’s married proposal,” ripe areca nut princess said. The bad-faced king was very aghast; he did not believe with the princess statement. Because of his happiness, the bad-faced king jumped down to the swimming pool he had made. His face changed to be handsome at the time. In the end, ripe areca nut princess had lived then called areca nut country. Areca nut in javanese was jambe. The Kings in Java Island called it Jambe city and now it becomes Jambi Province.



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