The Legend of Betel and Areca

Quite a long time ago, a mandarin named Cao had two children who were one year more established than one another and looked such a lot of the same that pariahs couldn't see who was the more established sibling and who was the more youthful. At the point when the two siblings were seventeen or eighteen years of age, their folks both kicked the bucket. The two siblings, who previously cherished one another, presently experience depression, and love each other significantly more than previously.

Done being shown by their dad, the two siblings went to request to study with a Taoist named Liu. The two siblings really hit the books and told the truth, so the educator adored them like children. Educator Luu has a girl around sixteen or seventeen years of age, with a brilliant wonder, no other little girl in the space can contrast with her.

Seeing the two Cao siblings, both wonderful and delicate, the young lady fell head over heels and needed to pick which sibling would be her significant other, however didn't know which one was the sibling and which one was the sister.

At some point, while cooking porridge at home, the young lady took a bowl of porridge and a couple of chopsticks and welcomed them to eat. Seeing the more youthful sibling let the more established sibling eat, the young lady acknowledged who was the more established sibling and who was the more youthful sister. From that point onward, the girl advised her folks to permit her to wed her sibling.

Since the more established sibling got hitched, the affection between the two siblings is as of now not serious. The more youthful sibling was exceptionally miserable, yet the more established sibling didn't focus.

At some point, the two siblings went to the fields together, and when it was dull, the more youthful sibling went into the house first; When he ventured across the limit, his sister by marriage ran out from the room, confusing him with her better half, and immediately embraced him. The more youthful sibling quickly shouted out, the two of them were humiliated. At that point, his sibling likewise went into the house. From that point on, the sibling thought that the more youthful sibling cared deeply about his better half, and was significantly more unconcerned towards her than previously.

One evening, the two kin were away, the more youthful sibling sat alone watching out at the far off woodland. Feeling forlorn and, surprisingly, more miserable, he stood up and left.

He strolled, strolled until he arrived at the woods before him, then, at that point, followed the way straight into the dull woodland. It was beginning to get dim, the moon was up, however he actually continued onward. Coming to a wide stream with profound, blue water, he was unable to swim across, so he needed to sit and lay on the bank. He wailed, the stream rang and continued ringing, overwhelming his cries. The night developed further and more profound, the dew fell to an ever increasing extent, the chilly dew bit by bit saturated his skin, he passed on while as yet sitting latent, transforming into a stone.

The sibling and his significant other got back, yet didn't see his sister. He unobtrusively went searching for her, without telling his better half. Following the path into the woodland, he continued strolling, strolling, lastly came to a blue stream streaming under the twilight and unfit to swim across, so he needed to sit on the bank of the stream, resting up against a stone. Much to his dismay that the stone was his sibling! The dew actually falls consistently, cool dew falling gradually from the branches and leaves. He grieved and sobbed for quite a while, blacked out and passed on, transforming into a tree without branches, developing straight close to the stone.

At home, the spouse couldn't see her significant other, so she immediately went searching for himself and furthermore followed the path into the profound timberland. She continued strolling, making low strides and high advances, lastly went over a profound, blue stream. She can never again walk. She sat resting up against the branchless tree becoming close to the stone, crying. She didn't expect that she was sitting resting up against her significant other and nearby was her brother by marriage. She howled, however the stream was stronger than her moaning. The night bit by bit went to morning, the dew fell to an ever increasing extent, blinding the mountains and timberlands, she battled and cried. Not as much as 12 PM, she was at that point thin, her body long and lean, transforming into a plant firmly folded over a branchless tree developing on the stone.

Afterward, this story arrived at everybody's ears, and everybody felt frustrated about him. At some point, Ruler Hung passed by that spot. Individuals recounted the narrative of the three men to the lord and came to see. The ruler advised him to have a go at crushing the leaves of the climbing tree and the organic product from the branchless tree together. The taste was zesty. Bitten it, thought that it is delightful and spit water on the stone to see the water step by step become red. Individuals call that upstanding tree the areca tree, that plant the betel tree, and take the close by rock and prepare it to make it springy to eat with betel and areca nuts, giving the mouth a fragrant taste and red lips.

Albeit the adoration for three individuals is dead, it is as areas of strength for yet enthusiastic, so in each gathering of Vietnamese individuals, a piece of betel is consistently the start of the story, to begin the relationship, and when there is a little service. , huge functions, weddings, celebrations, and the custom of biting betel has turned into an intrinsic custom of the Vietnamese public.