A Nostalgic Visit(Part-2)
လြမ္းေမာဖြယ္ ခရီးတစ္ေခါက္
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Unlike other villages, my village has only main gate. There is no regular or permanent sentry. One of the villagers had to volunteer for the duty of a watchman. The duty rotates. There is a small bamboo, about ten inches long cut away at the nods on one end and the other end is open. It contains a scroll which nobody ever bothered to read. It is held by the volunteer watchman for the night. The next day, he hangs it on to the next volunteer's door. When I was seven, my brother told me that the tradition of handing down that bamboo containing scroll was as old as he could remember or anyone in the village could remember. It was called 'kin-boo'. (Kin=watch; boo=scroll). So, roughly it is the baton of authority of the watchman.
တျခားရြာေတြနဲ႔မတူ ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ေမြးဖြားရာ ရြာကေလးမွာ ရြာတံခါးတစ္ေပါက္တည္းသာ႐ွိၿပီး ပံုမွန္ကင္းသမားလည္းမ႐ွိပါ။ ရြာသားေတြထဲက တစ္ညတစ္ေယာက္ အလွည့္က်ေစာင့္ၾကရတယ္။ ေတာင္ဆုပ္ေလာက္ တစ္ဖက္ပိတ္ ဝါးဘူးကေလးတစ္ဘူးကို ကင္းတာဝန္က်သူက ေဆာင္ထားရၿပီး မိုးလင္းတာနဲ႔ ေနာက္ညကင္းလွည့္က်သူရဲ႕ အိမ္တံခါးဝမွာ ထိုကင္းဘူးေလးကို သြားၿပီး ခ်ိတ္ထားရတယ္။ ကင္းဘူးထဲမွာ စာပါတယ္လို႔ ဆိုေပမဲ့လည္း အဲဒီစာမွာ ဘာေရးထားတယ္ကို ဘယ္သူမွမသိပါ။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္(၇)ႏွစ္သားေလာက္မွာ အစ္ကိုက အဲဒီကင္းဘူးေလးဟာ သူနဲ႔ ဒီရြာမွာ ႐ွိသမ်ွအားလံုး မူလကို မသိၾက၊ အစဥ္အလာအရ ဒီအတိုင္းပင္ အလွည့္က် လက္ေျပာင္းခဲ့ၾကတယ္ဟူ၏။ ဒီအထဲမွာ စာက ကင္းသမားရဲ႕ လုပ္ပိုင္ခြင့္အာဏာျဖစ္မယ္လို႔ ထင္ရပါတယ္။
Seventy years later, when I visited the village, most of the houses were tin-roofed. In place of rickety village gateway, here was a strong and sturdy wooden gate reinforced with razorwire.
ႏွစ္ေပါင္း(၇၀)ခန္႔ၾကာၿပီး ေနာက္တစ္ေခါက္ရြာကို ေရာက္ေတာ့ ရြာမွာ႐ွိတဲ့ အိမ္ေတြအားလံုး သြပ္မိုးနဲ႔ ျဖစ္ေနၾကၿပီ။ ခေနာ္ခနဲ႔ ရြာဝင္တံခါးေနရာမွာ သစ္သားတံခါး ခိုင္ခိုင္ခံ့ခံကို သံဆူးႀကိဳးေျပာင္ေျပာင္လက္လက္နဲ႔ ထပ္ပိုးထားတယ္။
To be continued...
ဆက္ရန္...
(Special thanks to U Than Pe - Tour Guide)
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