Skip to main content

A great king named Hai

Long time ago, a boy was born in village name Hoa-vien which now was under Ha tinh province. The boy’ name was Hai his father died when he was a child so he grew up without rules and course his mother couldn’t prevent him. He used to group with his friends in farm to jump and wrestle. His mother had a rampant male buffalo which used to have ill behaviors and break plow.
vietnamese fairy tales
vietnamesefairytales.blogspot.com
One day, Hai came home after few days out.
“You only know to do useless things, waste your time in outside. Can you do some useful things?”, said his mother.
“I will plow tomorrow.”, he said.
The next morning he shouldered the plow and rode the buffalo toward field. He just plowed two lines the buffalo had accustomed to running away with plow. Hai ran after the buffalo and get over. He prevented, grabbed its horns but the buffalo raged and gored him. Hai punched the buffalo few hits then it fell down and died.
Saw the buffalo died Hai didn’t showed any worry he slaughtered the buffalo into four part. Then he asked someone to take two parts to his house gave his mother and he tied two parts to tops of a yoke then shouldered away. When his mother knew how he plowed she was very angry and asked a person to chase and teach him. Hai was on his way saw a person chasing and the person look very rampant as if he wanted to beat him. Hai put down his yoke and broke off a tree then he turned back and said with the person.
“If you want annoyed me, come on and get your gift with this tree.”, said Hai.
The person was frightened so he turned back and went away. Hai followed the north to go and as he felt hungry he cut meat and roasted to eat. as the last piece of meat had gone he had been in Nghe an. He wandered and at last he came to a mandarin’s mansion to pray for a job. Mandarin’s wife noticed he had strength and so she agreed. She gave him a barrel of steamed rice but it took no longer time to be eaten cleanly. Mandarin’s wife tremendously exclaimed:
“You eat too violently. Will you be useful for things you are served.”
Hai didn’t explain he asked:
“What do I have to do now?”
“Take water from river.”, replied the mandarin’s wife.
“Do you have something to contain.”, said Hai.
Mandarin’s wife led him to backyard which set many pitchers, she pointed at them and said.
“These are all things you need, chose two and take water come here.”, said mandarin’s wife.
“Too small, it will waste my strength.”, said Hai.
“I have two pitchers which were bigger than them but I am afraid you can not carry them.”, said mandarin’s wife then she led him go.
“Too small.”, said Hai as he saw the pitchers.
Mandarin’s wife had a little surprise and let him see two bigger pitchers.
“How about them?”, said mandarin’s wife.
“Small”, said Hai, “Could you go to market and buy two pitchers, the largest size, and a biggest size-yoke? Those maybe fit.”
One day, the region had a fair. Hai carried water pass the fair and saw a wrestling match. He stopped to see. A wrestler had won from morning to noon he had fallen down dozen of others and became arrogant. He gave all people a challenge but nobody dared. People noticed Hai had extraordinary power when carry two large pitchers of water so they insisted him to take the challenge. He refused but people insisted him so violently for he could continued refusing. But he made the wrestler sign his name on a paper that showed that they were exempted from crime as of them died in fighting.
The fighting just started few seconds the wrestler had been fallen down then he was hold on his ankles, thrown round and at last was thrown away. When people sprinted to in which he dropped down he had died. About Hai, he clapped on his thighs and had jumped up to a roof to celebrate.
Meanwhile, Lam river was abode of a python. Whenever boats crossed the river it always waved that made boats wreck all people, dropping into water, didn’t escape from its mouth. Therefore, the part of river became wild. Soldiers also couldn’t hurt it. At last, thing king notified anyone who could kill the python would be given award. Hai showed up and required to forge nine knifes. As things he need had made. He and some people came to the riverside. Asked some stay on the riverside and boiled a larg pot of water. He and some rowed to middle river then he used a rope tied around his body, the other side he gave others on the boat to take.
“If you felt the rope was pulled at other side, pulled me up immediately.”, said Hai.
Then he dived into the water. He wasted long time finding the python. At last, he found out it was lying coiling in a cave. Very fast the python felt his appearance. It opened it mouth and planed to swallow him down but he dodged and pricked a knife on his body. The python was angry because it had never been hurt before by someone so it waved his body so madly to make Hai injured but Hai climbed at its back and never let off his hand. People on the boat could see violent waves which made the part of rive be white by foams but they didn’t feel the other side of rope was pulled.
Until noon as Hai had pricked six knifes on python’s body. He pulled the rope then people pulled him up. His body, his clothes, now, was covered by python’s viscous liquid and blood. It smelled very horrible but he asked them to take more knifes. Then he dived one more time. That time the python was so weak because it was injured and he only needed pricked few knifes on it stomach to end its life. The python waved is body weakly then died.
 Hai cut off its head then take it up from water. People cheered. He immediately bathed. The pot of water had been boiled he asked people to clean all blood and viscous liquid from his body. But the viscous liquid, a deadly poison, had entered his nostrils and damaged his brain. Short time later, he died.
People who regret for his fate had built a temple to respect him and called him great king Hai.  
THE END
"Translated by Hung Nguyen"

Book Introductions

1. Complete Collection of Vietnamese Fairy Tales - A Treasury of Legends and Folklore

Discover over 240 enchanting Vietnamese fairy tales, translated into English and beautifully illustrated. This collection is a treasure trove of legends and folklore that reflect Vietnam's rich cultural heritage. Available as an ebook on: Kobo, Apple Books

2. Vietnamese Fairy Tales - Stories in English and Vietnamese

This bilingual collection features 162 Vietnamese fairy tales in both English and Vietnamese, with stunning illustrations. Ideal for language learners and cultural enthusiasts. Available as an ebook on: Kobo, Apple Books

3. The Treasury of Fables

An enchanting collection of timeless fables, written in English and beautifully illustrated. Perfect for all ages, these stories offer valuable moral lessons. Available as an ebook on: Kobo, Apple Books

Ebook Banner

Essential Reads: Engaging Books You Can't Miss!

See more:
Tale 67. Trong grandpa, the saints are worshiped in Chem village
Tale 68. Yet Kieu
Tale 69. Bay Giao, Chin Quy
Tale 64. Five-brother-in-born
Tale 65. Four talent men
List of Vietnamesefairy tales
-----
Truyện cổ tích Việt nam (For people who can read Vietnamese)
Vietnamese historical stories (For people who love history)
Nhãn:

BÀI ĐĂNG ĐƯỢC XEM NHIỀU

List of Vietnamese fairy tales

Vietnamese  fairy tales includes many stories as Tam and Cam; So Dua; Hundred – knot- bamboo tree... which were spread in folk. Each stories has  its own meaning. I think I can not translate exactly each word into english but I will try my best to convey its meaning to you. Hope you like them!
1 comment
Read more

Bài 1.5: Cách sử dụng at, on, in cho thời gian, ngày, tháng, năm, mùa.

Chào các bạn! Bởi vì mình có hay dich truyện và một vài thứ linh tinh khác nên thường bắt gặp ngày, tháng năm. Thật ra khôngkhó để sử dụng đúng nhưng mỗi lần cần đến mình lại phải tra lại tra cứu. Điều đó rất mất thời gian nên hôm nay mình viết một bài liên quan đến at, on, in + thời gian để giúp bạn nào chưa biết và giúp chính mình nhớ được cách sử dụng của các giới từ at, on, in và dạng thời gian được theo sau giới từ đó.
Post a Comment
Read more

Thanh Giong

Once  upon a time, a woman was old but she had not given birth a child. One day, when she went to her field, she saw a stranger footsore on the ground. The big footsore made her surprise and said: “omg, this footsore is so big” the she put her foot into the footsore. More 9 months later, she gave birth to a little boy named Giong. The boy was extraordinary that he was over three years old but had not spoken. He only knew lying and smiling. vietnamesefairytales.blogspot.com That year, the enemies they were known An planed to attack the country of the boy. They were merciless. Wherever they had gone, houses were ruined, fields were fired, people were killed. The sight behind them is mess of corpse and blood and ashes.The King was worry he forced his servants to look for person who could fight against the enemies.  One day, a servent went to Giong’s village while the woman was holding the boy in her arms, she said sadly that: “Giong, I wonder that when you hav...
Read more

The tale of Da Hoa village hall

Once upon a time, Da Hoa village was where a mage named Dong lived. He had powerful magics and was kindness. People in the village all respected him they had voted him to be head of village. There years, farmers had a poor crop because it had not rained for long time. Therefore, they had very little rice to eat. Besides, price of rice increased highly which made them sell their farm farms to get money for food. At last, it seemed almost farms fell into rich mans in area. Dong wanted to help farms and had a plan. Dong called rich mans to his home. “God is kindness helping you all have much wealth. That is a gift god gives you. And now is the time you must show god your gratefulness”, said Dong. Rich mans knew Dong was a mage who could connect gods so they asked him seriously: “What do we need to do?” vietnamesefairytales.blogspot.com “We don’t have any village hall that gods can not stay in our village as they come on ground. Therefore”, he said firmly, “we have to ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Wishing pearl

De was a young boy. His parent was servants of a landlord. Every morning, De led landlord’s cattle to meadow and brought them back at nightfall. De used to be excited in playing with his fellows and when he was in his game he didn’t care anything. Many times the cattle he herded ate rice on field and the owners used to beat him pained but he still left cattle and joined in his fellows. One normal day, he and his fellows had a swimming competition. An award was given to the winner that he couldn’t refuse. Therefore, he participated in the competition and left his cattle on a wild hill. They swam and dived in water until noon and when they walked on ground, a cow had disappeared. The cow belonged to no one but his master. Children separated to find the cow but the cow seemed to vanish they couldn’t find it. Sun was going to down, children made their ways to home they left De staying at there. Day stayed at there alone crying. After that, he fell in sleep. Latter, he was woken up b...
Post a Comment
Read more

My Chau and Trong Thuy

Once upon a time, there had a king, named An Duong Vuong. After many years fighting, he get a large area. The king planed to build a castle but whenever it had been built as tall as a men’s height then it was ruined. The king was unhappy. Therefore, the king had made an altar to pray God for few days until an early morning, a old man from seaside went to talk him God Turtle was going come to help him. The king was very happy and forced soldiers to wait on the seaside. The next day, in the water appeared a big gold turles toward seaside. The soldiers invited God Turtle to set sat on a big gold platter and brought to the king. The God Turtle told the king that the castle couldn’t have finished because of demons. God Turtle helped the king to kill the demons so all demons was killed. Besides, the God Turtle help the king design a castle look like a seashell with many gate levels. Half a month later, the castle had been finished. The king was very pleased but a little worry. He a...
Read more

Bài 14: Danh từ đếm được số ít và số nhiều và quy tắc thêm chuyển từ danh từ đếm được số ít sang số nhiều.

      Như chúng ta đã biết danh từ thường phân thành nhiều loại nhưng về mặt ngữ pháp bạn chỉ cần biết danh từ gồm hai loại: danh từ đếm được và danh từ không đếm được. Về cơ bản mình sẽ nói qua một chút về danh từ đếm được và danh từ không đếm được vì bài này chủ yếu xoay quanh danh từ đếm được. Về bản chất danh từ đếm được là những từ bạn có thể kiểm soát nó bằng mặt số lượng tức là bạn có thể đếm 1, 2, 3 cái gì đó và nó có sự phân biệt giữa số ít (một) và số nhiều (hơn một) của loại từ này trong ngữ pháp của câu. Ví dụ: I have  bananas và  I have  a banana  có sự khác biệt rõ ràng, bạn có nhận thất mạo từ  “a”  ở trước banana không? Thêm nữa Bananas  are  yellow và a banana  is  yellow bạn có nhận thấy động từ đi kèm có sự khác biệt không; danh từ số nhiều sẽ tương đương vói ư chỉ ngữ they và danh từ số ít sẽ tương đương vói it. Cơ bản là thế. Còn về danh không đếm được thì bạn phải cân, đo, đong như những...
3 comments
Read more

Tam and Cam

Once upon a time, there had a little girl named Tam. Her mother died early so her father decided to remarry on purpose the stepmother would take care of his little daughter. The stepmother gave birth to a girl, named Cam after that. Then, her father died after few years. Tam had to live with her stepmother and her sister, Cam. Since the time, she was forced to work hard, all housework, while Cam had to do nothing. One day, the stepmother gave Tam and Cam each one a corf to caught fish. She promised that who caught full her corf would receive a piece of red silk. Tam and Cam went to field together. She was hard to catch fish while Cam only wondered around till afternoon and had nothing in her coft. Cam pointed at Tam’s coft and realised it is full, thinking seconds, she said gently: “sister Tam, your head is mud, you should wash it or mother will punish you” Belive Cam, Tam went to river nearly. She left her corf on the shore,  waded into water to wash. Cam, meanwhile, stayed on t...
Read more

Yet Kieu

Once  upon a time, in Ha-bi village lived a man named Yet Kieu who worked as a fisher. One night, while he was strolling along the seaside he saw two large buffaloes fighting on the beach. He sprinted to poke them apart. Buffalos were beaten painful they ran toward to the sea then disappeared. “Those creatures aren’t normal”, he thought then he turned back where buffaloes had been fighting and picked up some fur they had left. He gazed them then suddenly swallowed them down. From that he had the strength that nobody could fight against. Especially, he could stay in the water longer than any people in the world. He spent six or seven days fishing whenever he dived in water. vietnamesefairytales.blogspot.com That moment, their enemies had an invasion. A hundred ships approached and covered seaside of Van  ninh. They caught all fishing boats and fired them. They robbed assets and took lives from people living around the beach. Warships following king of the countr...
Read more