The Hundred-knot Bamboo Tree (also The Bamboo of 100 Joints) ( vi, Cây tre trăm đốt) is a

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Vietnamese fairy tale Famous Vietnamese fairy tales include The Hundred-knot Bamboo Tree The Hundred-knot Bamboo Tree (also The Bamboo of 100 Joints) ( vi, Cây tre trăm đốt) is a Vietnamese fable and parable, Vietnamese fairy tale and part of Vietnamese oral tradi ...

and part of Vietnamese

oral tradition Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication wherein knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another. Vansina, Jan: ''Oral Tradition as History'' (1985 ...

. The story is included in anthologies of Vietnamese stories. The

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is about a laborer who is exploited by a wealthy landowner. In order to keep and motivate the laborer, the landowner promises to reward him with marriage to his daughter after three years of labor. When the time for marriage arrives, the landowner breaks his promise by offering his daughter to another man. When the laborer complains, the landowner tries to trick him again by sending him in search of a

bamboo Bamboos are a diverse group of evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family. The origin of the word "bamboo" is uncertain, bu ...

stalk with one hundred segments, again promising him his daughter if the laborer can find the bamboo stalk. After divine intervention, the laborer triumphs in the end.Vietnam bulletin - Volumes 5 à 8 United States. Embassy (Vietnam) 1971 "The young man then explained his inability to find a hundred-knotted bamboo tree. ... at that moment, he realized that the father had deceived him and was giving his daughter in marriage to the rich man's son."

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The story on Vietnam culture.com ''The Hundred Knot Bamboo''

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