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According to legend, King {{ill|Duttabaung|my|ဒွတ္တဘောင်မင်းကြီး}} of [[Sri Ksetra]] attacked and conquered [[Beikthano]] and took the ruler Queen [[Panhtwar]] as his queen. She wanted her kingdom back. So every day, she makes the King lose power in some way as much as she can. The king had a powerful magic mole in the middle of his forehead, and it was recorded by the late people as "Three-Eyed Duttabaung".<ref name="legend ">{{cite news |title=ဆေးဖက်ဝင်အပင်များနှင့် အဓိကပျောက်ကင်းနိုင်သောရောဂါများ |url=https://myawady.net.mm/node/3291 |work=Mmyawady News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=တရော်ကင်းပွန်းဖြစ်လာပုံ |url=https://www.ayeyarmyay.com/2021/01/blog-post_549.html?m=1 |work=Ayeyar Myay |date=12 July 2020}}</ref>
According to legend, King {{ill|Duttabaung|my|ဒွတ္တဘောင်မင်းကြီး}} of [[Sri Ksetra]] attacked and conquered [[Beikthano]] and took the ruler Queen [[Panhtwar]] as his queen. She wanted her kingdom back. So every day, she makes the King lose power in some way as much as she can. The king had a powerful magic mole in the middle of his forehead, and it was recorded by the late people as "Three-Eyed Duttabaung".<ref name="legend ">{{cite news |title=ဆေးဖက်ဝင်အပင်များနှင့် အဓိကပျောက်ကင်းနိုင်သောရောဂါများ |url=https://myawady.net.mm/node/3291 |work=Mmyawady News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=တရော်ကင်းပွန်းဖြစ်လာပုံ |url=https://www.ayeyarmyay.com/2021/01/blog-post_549.html?m=1 |work=Ayeyar Myay |date=12 July 2020}}</ref>


Therefore, one day, she offered a face-cloth to Duttabaung. Really it was the lower end of her [[htamein]]. His spears and blades are no longer blight. The King used it and lost his magic mole and glory. Many subordinate kings rebelled against Duttabaung when they realized that Duttabaung was low in power. The king himself suppressed the rebellions, but couldn't fight back the enemy as he had lost his glory and had to flee. While he was​ fleeing, it started raining, and he hid under the shape of a large ''tayaw'' tree that was surrounded by branches of ''kin-pun''. The tayaw kin-pub sap fell on the king's hair, the spear in his hand immediately became bright and his magic mole reappeared. The king strongly believed that the tayaw and kin-pun trees had the power to increase his glory. Since then successive Burmese kings used to wash their heads with tayaw-kinpun. <ref name="legend "/>
Therefore, one day, she offered a face-cloth to Duttabaung. Really it was the lower end of her [[htamein]]. His spears and blades are no longer blight. The King used it and lost his magic mole and glory. Many subordinate kings rebelled against Duttabaung when they realized that Duttabaung was low in power. The king himself suppressed the rebellions, but couldn't fight back the enemy as he had lost his glory and had to flee. While he was​ fleeing, it started raining, and he hid under the shape of a large ''tayaw'' tree that was surrounded by branches of ''kin-pun''. The tayaw kin-pub sap fell on the king's hair, the spear in his hand immediately became bright and his magic mole reappeared. The king strongly believed that the tayaw and kin-pun trees had the power to increase his glory. Since then successive Burmese kings used to wash their heads with tayaw-kinpun.<ref name="legend "/>


==In popular culture==
==In popular culture==

Revision as of 20:57, 3 August 2022

Tayaw kin-pun (Burmese: တရော်ကင်ပွန်း) is a traditional shampooing culture in Myanmar. The main ingredients of this shampoo consist of the bark of a shrub, known as "tayaw"[1] and soapy fruit of the senegalia rugata, known as "kin-pun". Sometimes, lime is added.

It has been used traditionally for hair care in Myanmar since ancient times, as it was believed that shampooing hair with tayaw kin-pun would make bad luck go away and bring good luck.[2] Both tayaw and kin-pun grow throughout the country in the wild and thrive without tending. This shampoo is not bought in a store, but only in the open air markets of Myanmar. Nowadays, this shampoo is sold ready made in plastic bag.[3][4]

Legend

According to legend, King Duttabaung [my] of Sri Ksetra attacked and conquered Beikthano and took the ruler Queen Panhtwar as his queen. She wanted her kingdom back. So every day, she makes the King lose power in some way as much as she can. The king had a powerful magic mole in the middle of his forehead, and it was recorded by the late people as "Three-Eyed Duttabaung".[5][6]

Therefore, one day, she offered a face-cloth to Duttabaung. Really it was the lower end of her htamein. His spears and blades are no longer blight. The King used it and lost his magic mole and glory. Many subordinate kings rebelled against Duttabaung when they realized that Duttabaung was low in power. The king himself suppressed the rebellions, but couldn't fight back the enemy as he had lost his glory and had to flee. While he was​ fleeing, it started raining, and he hid under the shape of a large tayaw tree that was surrounded by branches of kin-pun. The tayaw kin-pub sap fell on the king's hair, the spear in his hand immediately became bright and his magic mole reappeared. The king strongly believed that the tayaw and kin-pun trees had the power to increase his glory. Since then successive Burmese kings used to wash their heads with tayaw-kinpun.[5]

In popular culture

  • On the last day of the Burmese new year, Burmese washing the head with the tayaw kin-pun. They wash their heads to mark the new year so that the impurities from the old year will not come.[7][8]
  • On 13 April 2021, in the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, female activists from the Mya Taung strike column, against the military dictatorship with the "Tayaw kin-pun strike movement".[9]

References

  1. ^ "မှေးမှိန်လာနေတဲ့ တရော်ကင်ပွန်းသုံးစွဲခြင်း အလေ့အထ". The Myanmar Times. 31 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Soap Nut (ကင်ပွန်းသီး)". Hello Sayarwon (in Burmese). 25 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Myanmar Shampoo". www.myanmars.net. 13 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Yan Win (Taung Da Gar) – Myanmar Shampoo". THIT HTOO LWIN (Daily News). 16 April 2011.
  5. ^ a b "ဆေးဖက်ဝင်အပင်များနှင့် အဓိကပျောက်ကင်းနိုင်သောရောဂါများ". Mmyawady News.
  6. ^ "တရော်ကင်းပွန်းဖြစ်လာပုံ". Ayeyar Myay. 12 July 2020.
  7. ^ "နှစ်ဆန်းတစ်ရက်နေ့". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 17 April 2019.
  8. ^ "မြန်မာရိုးရာ အတာနှစ်ကူး ခေါင်းဆေးမင်္ဂလာ". DVB. 14 April 2021.
  9. ^ "စစ်အာဏာရှင်ကို တရော်ကင်ပွန်းနှင့် တော်လှန်သည့် မန္တလေး". Mizzima. 14 April 2021.