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Translation (Gun Mai)
Once upon a time in a village, there was a couple, husband and wife, who did not have a child. The husband was quite lazy but he was good at fishing. The wife was also very lazy and just used to stay at home. She just cooked the fish that her husband brought. She sold some fish to buy rice while she cooked some fish for the curry. They also did not build a house and just lived under the trees happily. They felt very happy so. The husband just went fishing and backed home. The wife also just stayed at home without doing anything. She only had a duty to cook fish curry when her husband backed. They lived happily so for a while. They lived like that so getting poor and poor. One day, a guardian nat tested the couple. The guardian nat thought to himself that "This couple is just fishing the whole life. I think maybe they will just go like this for the rest of their lives as well. I need to take care of them." So, one day, when the husband went fishing, he got nothing even though he was fishing the whole day. He only got a very beautiful fish in the evening after sunset. It was a golden fish as it was very beautiful. The husband said to himself that "Ah.....when just it is almost dark, I just got such a tiny fish. But, I should take it." When he was about to take the fish, the fish spoke. "Hi human fisherman, even if you take me and cook for the curry, you will not full. So, pity me and leave me back to the water. Ask me whatever you want," said the fish. The fish continued that "Come again and again to ask me whatever you want, I will give you." The man said that "There is nothing to eat tonight so my wife will get angry with me." The fish asked, "Then, what do you want?" The man said, "I want food for tonight." So, the fish said the man to return home so the man returned home. When he got home, "You bring nothing? What we gonna eat tonight?" asked the wife. The husband said that "When I was fishing the whole day, I only got a very small fish. I was about to bring the fish but the fish apologized to pity him as it is also not enough to cook and eat. Then, the fish told me to ask whatever I want. So, when I told the fish about I want the food for tonight, he told me to return home." The wife asked, "So, where is the food?" Then, the husband recited that "Today's fish, we two have to eat food tonight. Give us the food as you told me today." At that time, they suddenly got the food that ready to eat. They both ate the food and fulled. On the next morning when they got up, the wife was more greedy and said to her husband that "Why don't you ask a house to live in? Why you just asked that food? Ask a very beautiful and magnificent house." The man also went again fishing the next day but he got nothing the whole day. So, he called the fish. "Little golden fish, come out to me" said the man. The fish came out and said "What do you want?" The man told the fish that "My wife said that she wants a very beautiful and magnificent house". Then, the fish told the man to return home. When the man got home, he saw a very beautiful and magnificent house there. After they had the house, the wife got angry again and again. The wife said that "You only asked about the house but you did not include to ask flowers and garden around the house. You also should ask the house with more windows." So, the man went again. He met with the golden fish and asked again as his wife said. The fish also told the man to return home again. When he got home, the house was now really beautiful with the flowers around the house. The wife was looking around the house again and again, and she was very happy with the beautiful house. But, they were hungry because there was nothing to eat. So, the wife got angry again and said that "If we only have the house and just looking the flowers, we don't full as there is no rice to eat. You also should ask about the food." So, the man went again. As usual, he met and asked the golden fish. The golden fish said, "Ok, ok, I understand what you said." When the man got home, they got food to eat and there was always the food whenever the time to eat. When they were living neatly in the house, they had to sweep broom. They had to polish the floor and also needed to watering the garden. There were many tasks to do so the couple never felt satisfied and got angry again and again. "There are many tasks now. I am very tired. I am troubled. I don't want to live anymore in this house. I just want to live under the tree as we lived in the past" said the wife. The wife continued, "You will fishing and we will just cook the fish." So, the man went again to the golden fish and said that "Because my wife is lazy, she doesn't want to live anymore in the house even though the house is very beautiful and magnificent. That's why my wife said she just wants to live under the tree and cook the fishes." The golden fish said OK and told the man to return home. When he got home, his wife was happily living under the tree that they lived before. Because they both lived happily in such situations since they were young, they just felt happy in such places. Therefore, the couple just lived happily under the trees and cooked the fish for the rest of their lives.
Thus, there is a Jinghpaw proverb that 'There is no boring thing but only exist is a habit." Therefore, they just lived happily under the tree because they felt happy when they lived under the tree in the past.
Transcription (Lu Awng)
Moi kalang mi da kahtawng langai mi kaw e madu jan hte madu wa sha re kasha mung nlu re yen la nga ai da. Dai yen la gaw dai la dai wa gaw lagawn gaw grai lagawn ai, retim nga grai chye hkoi ai da. Madu jan mung grai lagawn na nta sha, madu wa la wa ai nga ni la na sha shadu du rai, shat ni mung n kau mi e gaw, nga n kau mi dut na nkau mi e gaw sihtu shadu sha re na grai pyaw na nta n galaw ai da, hpun pawt hkan sha nga ai da. Hpun pawt hkan sha nga re na grai pyaw dum ai da, shan gaw shingrai madu wa mung nga sa hkoi la, bai du wa, madu jan shani ting ting hpa ngalaw ra, madu wa du wa jang e dai nga si htu shadu na lit dai sa lu na shingrai na nga part galu wa sai da. Dai wa she dai hku nga na matsan she matsan rai, lani mi na gaw sagya wa gaw shan hpe chyam yu ai le i, ndai yen gaw prat tup na sha hkoi sha na oh ran rai nga na gaw prat jahtum na nga sam ai, dai re majaw gaw ndai yen e gaw loi gaw yu gaw yu ra sai, ngu nna sagya wa gaw dai hku ngu myit ai da. Dai majaw gaw lani mi gaw madu wa nga sa hkoi nga, shani tup dawn tim nlu, shana de jan du si yang she nga grai tsawm ai 1 mi sha lu ai da. Dai gaw ja nga re na hku nga grai tsawm ai nga yang gaw 1 mi lu ai da. Shaloi she ga a ya ngai pyi jan du wa ai hte rai nga yang ndai te sha law sha lu ai gaw chye kaji tim la wa na re ngu na la na maw yang dai nga wa ga shaga wa ai da. E shinggyin masha nga hkoi sha ai wa e nang la wa tim shadu sha tim kan nhkru re majaw gaw ngai hpe matsan dum rit bai dat kau dat rit. Nang ra ai hpa retim mung hpyi u ngu ai da. Nang ra ai rai sa hpyi hpyi re u, ngai jaw na ngu shaloi ya dai na mung shat hpa n sha ai, nye madu jan gaw pawt na rai sai ngu yang, dai re yang nang hpa ra ai ngu yang dai na sha na malu masha ra ai, e e wa su wa nna she madu jan gaw du wa ai da. Du wa yang she hpa mung n la wa ai wa re gaw dai na gaw nhpa sha sa na ngu yang e dai ni ting nga dawn ai nga kachyi sha law lu ai majaw shadu sha mung n law, retim la wa na ngu, retim shi wa she ngai hpe grai tawngban ai, matsan dum la, shadu sha mung n law re majaw matsan dum la, nang ra ai hpyi u na majaw ngai dai na sha na malu masha ra ai ngu yang nta du wa yu u, nga dat ai ngu yang she hka rai ya gaw reng, dai ni na nga e an hpe gaw dai na malu masha sha ra ai, malu masha jaw sha u ngu yang, kaja wa sha sha na malu masha ni (asintin) re nga yaw na shan gaw dai sha na hkru mat sai da. Hpang jahpawt bai rawt ai shaloi gaw madu jan bai nga sai, grai lawhpa wa sai da, nga na nta mung hpyi u le, na dai sha mi hpyi ai gaw nta tsawm tsawm re ai grai tsawm grai hkyik grai hkam ai nta mung hpyi u le ngu dai hku madu e shing ngu. Kaja wa sha hpang shani bai sa na nga bai dawn yang gaw nga bai nlu hkraw re na dai nga e bai sa shaga ai da. Dai panglai na ja nga e pru wa yu rit ngu, nang hpa baw ra ai ngu she, nye madu jan tsun yang nta grai hkyik ai grai tsawm htap ai ra ai da nga, e wa yu ngu, wa yang she kaja wa sha grai tsawm hkyik hkam ai nta kaba ni nga nga la ai da. Nga nga la she madu jan bai pawt sai da. Pawt hkrai pawt da, ya gaw nta sha hpyi nna gaw makau hkan ni, ndaw yang hkan ni, nampu nampan ni tsawm ai gaw n tsun shalawm ai wa mi, nta (kadinpauk) ni mung grai law re ai hpyi u le nga dat ai da, dai hku nga dat na kaja wa bai sa ai da. Dai panglai kaw na nga kasha hpe sa tsun da, wa yu nga, wa yu yang kaja sha nta mung grai tsawm htap nna nampu nampan hte hprek re sai da, retim dai ni sha yu chyai na madu jan jan gaw pyaw she pyaw, pyaw she pyaw na kahkrang hkrai kahkrang hkawm ai da. Retim mung shat kaw si taw nga da, shat kaw si sha na gaw hpa n lu re majaw madu wa e bai pawt she pawt na, nang gaw nta sha lu ai dai nampan sun sha yu yang gaw hkru mung n hkru wa, kawsi nga le shat mung hpa n sha nga le malu masha mung hpyi shalawm mu le nga na she madu wa gaw dai de bai sa sai da. Sa yang mung dai bai sa tsun dan jang dai shawoi na hte maren *e e nang tsun ai ngai chye na sai * bai wa yu yang kaja wa sha sha na malu masha ni mung aten du jang e lu sha sha re na she dai nta kaw e tsawm tsawm htap htap rai nga yang gaw ga a dun ye ye ra ai wa ai hte, nta (chantike) ra ai hte, nampan sun hka gaw jaw ra wa hte, bungli grai law mat na she madu jan gaw myik dik ai ngu mung nnga pawt chyu pawt sa tsang na ya gaw bungli mung grai law sai, grai ba ai. Shatsawm jahtap rai hte grai ba ai, ndan re kaw n kam nga sai, goi kaning re bai nga mayu ai rai moi an nnan naw nga yang na hpun pawt dai de bai nga mayu sai nga da. Shingrai na nang gaw nga sha hkoi, nga shan sha shadu sha re sha nga mayu ai nga, e e mai ai nga na she dai nga kaw bai sa nna nga e bai sa shaga la na bai tsun ai da shaloi she nye madu jan gaw da hpa kade hkyik ai nta kaw nga timmung lagawn ai majaw n kam nga ai da. Dai majaw panglai na nga wa e nye madu jan tsun yang e moi na hpun pawt kaw nga si htu sha shadu sha rai nga mayu ai da. E e re jang gaw re sai ngu, wa sa nu nang mu na re ngu bai wa yu yang she madu jan wa she moi nga hpun pawt dai kaw wa she grai pyaw rai wa nga taw nga da. Dai kaw na gaw shan gaw kaji daw de mung dan re nga pyaw dum ai re majaw dai kaw sha pyaw dum ai da. Shingrai na prat tup dai hpun pawt kaw sha hpun pawt hkan sha yup re na nga na nga hkoi sha na sha nga mat ai da.
Dai majaw jinghpaw ga malai jin ngu gaw nnga ia da, man ngu sha nga ia da. Dai majaw shan gaw moi hpun pawt kaw nga yang grai pyaw dum ai majaw hpun pawt kaw sha nga na nga mat masai da.
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