218. Nhân Sâm

Ngày xưa, có hai vợ chồng người tiều phu nghèo khổ, làm lụng vất vả quanh năm. Tờ mờ sáng đã ra đi làm, đến tối mịt mới về nhà mà cũng không kiếm đủ gạo ăn. Hai vợ chồng có một đứa con trai còn nhỏ, mỗi ngày để ở nhà cho một phần cơm chỉ ăn vừa lưng dạ. Trong cảnh thiếu ăn đó, hai vợ chồng lấy làm ngạc nhiên nhận thấy con mình ngày một béo tốt, hồng hào khỏe mạnh như đã được chăm nuôi tẩm bổ khác thường. Đứa con còn bé chưa nói năng gì được nên cha mẹ nó muốn hỏi han về sức khỏe lạ lùng của con cũng đành chịu. Được vài năm đứa bé lớn lên như thổi, bắt đầu biết trò chuyện, cha mẹ nó mới hỏi xem phần cơm mỗi ngày để dành cho con ăn có đủ không. Thằng bé trả lời chẳng biết mùi cơm ra sao vì cứ mỗi khi cha mẹ nó vừa đi khỏi nhà là bầy khỉ ở rừng kéo đến ăn sạch cơm.

Hai vợ chồng người tiều phu quá nỗi kinh ngạc, hỏi con trong mấy năm trời không cơm ăn mà sao lại được khỏe mạnh như vậy. Đứa con ngây thơ mới kể cho hay rằng trong lúc cha mẹ nó vắng nhà, có một thằng bé láng giềng cũng trần truồng như nó, vẫn đến chơi đùa, và chính đứa bé đáng yêu kia đã truyền sức khỏe sang cho nó. Nghe con nói như thế, cha mẹ nó lại càng lấy làm lạ, nghi hoặc thêm, vì chung quanh ấy lối mươi dặm chẳng có nhà cửa của ai cả. Người tiều phu nghĩ ngợi, đoán chừng đứa bé đến chơi với con mình là Người Sâm (nhân sâm), hồn của cây sâm mọc quanh quẩn gần đâu đây.

Đến sáng hôm sau, người tiều phu đi ra chợ mua một cuộn chỉ tơ mang về dặn dò con là hễ thằng bé kia đến chơi thì lấy chỉ buộc vào chân hoặc tay nó. Đứa con hứa sẽ làm theo lời cha bảo. Qua ngày sua, vợ chồng người tiều phu đi khỏi nhà như lệ thường, song không vào rừng lấy củi mà rình nấp gần đấy. Nhân sâm lại đến túp lều coh*i với thằng bé con người tiều phu, cũng như mọi ngày, và đứa bé theo lời cha dặn, lấy chỉ buộc vào cổ tay bạn.

Vào lúc giữa trưa, hai vợ chồng người tiều phu ra khỏi chỗ nấp, đột ngột trở về nhà, bắt chợt cả hai đứa bé đang nô đùa. Thằng bé sâm vội vàng bỏ chạy rồi biến mất vào cây. Người tiều phu lần theo dấu chỉ đã buộc vào cổ tay Nhân Sâm mà tìm ra được cây sâm. Tham và ngốc, gã hấp tấp đào xới quá mạnh tay làm chết mất thằng bé Sâm và chỉ lấy được từng miếng rễ cây sâm. Cũng vì thế mà ngày nay người ta chỉ có được các nhánh rễ sâm mường tượng hình dáng người. Người Sâm chết vì sự vụng về của gã tiều phu, từ đó Sâm không còn công hiệu giúp cho người ta được trường sinh bất tử nữa, mà uống sâm chỉ được bồi dưỡng sức khỏe thôi.

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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!

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...

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...

God of blacksmiths and blacksmith

Khong Lo, the god of blacksmiths, was the god who had taught people casting and also the go who governed blacksmiths. Khong Lo early realized that not all blacksmiths were good guy so he used to appear on ground and challenge blacksmiths. A street blacksmith who used to shoulder tools wander on street and helped people remold metal things. “Mold pots, mold jars, mold tray, remold metal things”, he cried to let others know he was a blacksmith. The blacksmith was great so he could mold and remold all things people needed in short time. In the time he worked he stayed in house of people who needed him to mold things. When things were molded, he got his money and set off. That was his work. One day, the blacksmith made his way to a fair. He went cross a forest and met a boy who was shouldering tools as he was. As he saw the blacksmith, the stood and bowed his head politely. “Do you see anybody go cross the direction you have passed, sir?”, said the boy. “Who do you find?”...

The Tale of the Hundred - knot Bamboo tree

Once upon a time, there had a boy who was poor, had no field. Therefore, he found the way to work for a landlord. He was healthy, worked hard and great in working so the landlord wanted him to work for him long time without any pay. One day, he called the boy to come. "You are honest and healthy. If you agree to work for me in three years without pay, I will let you marry with my only daughter after that." The boy agreed. He believed completely. He worked very hard, help the landlord turn richer that he could build more houses, buy more fields and cattles. Then, time passed. Three years nearly crossed, the boy always remembered his master's promise while his master, the landlord didn't want to do his promise. He in secret had found another boy for his daughter, a son of another landlord in that area. Therefore, what he need was a reason to refuse the boy. One day, he called the boy to come. "You have worked very hard for three years, waken early, slept late....

So dua - Coconut boy

Once upon a time, there in a village had a couple who worked as servants for a landlord. Although they were over fifty years old, they had ever not had a child. They were sad about that, but they had never given up to dream about a child. One day, it's a very hot day, when the wife was working in the field and felt very thirsty. She seeked for water, but she didn't see any but a little water in a skull which was in a hole beside an ancient tree. She had no choice but to drink it. Right the moment she drank, the feeling of cold water running from her throat to her stomach made her felt very comfortable. As a magic, she was pregnant after that short time. Then, the husband died before he got the happiness looking his child be born. After nine months and ten days, the wife gave birth a son but he didn't look like any child on the world. He had no feet, no leg, and even no body. He just had a head with full of eyes, nose, ear, hair and mouth on it. He didn't ugly but was ...

Fairy Lieu Hanh

Ngoc Hoang, the king of gods in heaven, had a daughter, named Lieu Hanh. Lieu Hanh was fairy who was headstrong and usually didn’t obey rules in heaven. Ngoc Hoang had advised her many times but he still did what she wanted. Therefore, Ngoc Hoang decided to punish his daughter to teach her a lesson. One time, Lieu Hanh made a mistake, his father forced her to get down and lived on ground three years. Lieu Hanh transformed into a beautiful girl and built a hut, sold tea under Ngang pass after she landed on ground. The place was wild trees that grew up luxuriantly but the road leading from north to south crossed there so many travelers crossed there everyday. Besides, there had only a tea shop because others feared robbers and beasts around the place. Consequently, her tea shop was always crowded. Though Lieu Hanh was punishing, she was still arrogant and didn’t respect any rules. Therefore, people went in her hut, drank tea then went away without trouble, would have no harm...

Tale of sandcrab

Once upon a time, a farm couple had a garden having a cave in where a snake couple lived. The man’s name was Da Trang (name of a kind of crabs) he used to work next to the cave and had known a snake couples were living in. Vietnamesefairytales.blogspot.com One day, he saw male snake swept out of the cave alone while the female was curling inside the cave, it had just shed. A short time later, the male came back to cave, brought a fog and gave it to female. Weeks later, he saw the female went out alone. That time, the male shed it was lying silently in the cave. Long time later, the female came back with another male. They had stood front of cave for few minutes then the other male swept alone to cave. The man realized what that male wants to do and he felt sorry to the male was lying in cave so he grabbed his archery and shot to the other male but the arrow lost its way and shot into the female head. The female was died. He came home and had never gone back ...

Danh sách truyện cổ tích việt nam

Dưới đây là những câu truyện cổ tích chắc có lẽ chỉ quen thuộc với mọi người. Bởi lẽ, ngày nay chúng ta đã quá quen với các phương tiện giải trí khác như smart phone, internet có thể dễ dàng cập nhật những bộ phim hay, trò chơi điện tử hấp dẫn. Những câu truyện cổ tích vì vậy không còn quá nhiều sức hấp dẫn đối với chúng ta. Tuy nhiên, mỗi câu chuyện ở đây đều mang trong mình một ý nghĩa riêng. Nếu bạn là người yêu thích những thứ liên quan tới văn hóa dân gian Việt nam; từng một lần ghé qua đây, hãy đọc những câu chuyện dưới đây và nhận lấy cho mình một ý nghĩa trong mỗi câu chuyện dưới đây.

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