Ma Win Myint - The blue water of the lake and the river

Author's note

Dear valued readers...

The author writes further about the stories of the Blue Lake.

Since June 1974, the magazine has been featured in the magazine "Deng Dawk" (The Saint from the Blue Lake), "Mwe Naing Thu" (The Snake Warrior from the Blue Lake), "Zedi O" (The Old Temple from the Blue Lake), "Shwe Kyat Taw" (The Golden Bird Forest from the Blue Lake), "Tishun Pin" (The Witch Tree from the Blue Lake), "Hmao Aung Ao" (The Magical Doll from the Blue Lake), "Sat Ru" (The Fool from the Blue Lake), "Khay Lone Shin" (The Master of the Blue Lake), The story "The Great Iron Ring from the Blue Lake" (11 stories) was written for exactly 11 months until April 1975, and then it was discontinued because it was not relevant. However, readers who love the author have urged him to continue writing the stories from the Blue Lake. The author does not write these stories purely as fiction. He rewrites the ancient real events told by elders, the author's own experiences, and the strange experiences he experienced, remembered, and heard during his more than twenty years from 1944 to 1965 in various parts of Burma, including Rakhine State for more than three years, southern Shan State for almost six years, northern Shan State for more than two years, and Hpa-an, Karen State for three years, and Kawkareik, Kawkareik, for more than two years.

In writing this, it is known with strong evidence that some events are clearly related to the spiritual world. However, in this era of scientific advancement, people do not believe in the spiritual world seriously, and they do not want to believe in it because it will lead to mental weakness. Since this is a backward idea and the ideas about the spiritual world are being revolutionaryly eliminated, the writer carefully edited what he heard, remembered, and knew to suit the times and wrote it as short stories.

The author still has many tragic, strange, moving, and compassionate stories about the spiritual world that cannot be written.

In addition to the stories that had been written for eleven months in the Blood Drinking Magazine, nine brand new stories that had never been published were also collected at the urging of readers and published in a twelve-kyat book titled Stories from the Blue Lake by Kansana Publishing in December 1975.

However, readers who are not satisfied with the stories of Ye Pyay Ai have repeatedly urged the author to continue writing Ye Pyay Ai stories by meeting with him, writing letters, and calling him. In the final story of the novel titled Ye Pyay Ai Stories, Ma Khin Shwe, a schoolteacher, is still writing about the strange, tragic, nostalgic, and patriotic events of Ye Pyay Ai village. She is a native of Ye Pyay Ai village, but her native Maung Sein Maung, who is about to lose his native land due to financial reasons, tells her that she will not let the tradition of Ye Pyay Ai village, which has been guarded by her great sense of patriotism, be destroyed. (Maung Sein Maung regained consciousness and restored the tradition of Ye Pyay Ai village. Ma Khin Shwe (d) helped Maung Sein Maung with money and effort. Then Maung Sein Maung fell in love with Ma Khin Shwe, the school teacher, out of gratitude.

In Ye Pyay Ai village, Kyung Kyung, a young village girl with a big family and wealth, is in love with Maung Sein Maung. Kyung Kyung's parents and relatives agree with Maung Sein Maung and Kyung Kyung.

Ma Khin Shwe, who came from another village and worked as a school teacher for the education of the village children, was admired by some villagers because of her skills, her dedication to the community, and her sacrifice for the education of the children. Some villagers wanted Ma Khin Shwe to marry Maung Sein Maung and live in Ye Pyay Ai village forever.

Here, Kyung Kyung's parents and relatives, who were in favor of Maung Sein Maung and Kyung Kyung, and the villagers who wanted Maung Sein Maung to marry Ma Khin Shwe, were about to be divided. Some of Kyung Kyung's relatives used clever words to try to dissuade Ma Khin Shwe.

Ma Khin Shwe knew that Maung Sein Maung loved her, but she was just a simple friend. Now that Maung Sein Maung, Kyung Kyung, and Ma Khin Shwe were going to have a rift in the village, and when Kyung Kyung's relatives started to say things that they didn't like Ma Khin Shwe and wanted her to leave Ye Pyay Ai village, Ma Khin Shwe sadly left the children of Ye Pyay Ai village, whom she had a great affection for, and left Ye Pyay Ai to take up a job in another area.

When Ma Khin Shwe left the village of Ye Pyae Ai, Maung Sein Maung was left heartbroken and longing for Ma Khin Shwe. The story ends with the story of the one who left Ye Pyae Ai behind.

This is why readers are no longer satisfied with the ending of the story of Ye Pyae Ai.

Many readers have asked whether the village of Ye Pyay Ai really exists, and if so, where it is located. They have been curious about the events in the story of Ye Pyay Ai.

The story of the Blue Lake is not stopped with Maung Sein Maung, who has lost his love, but with the intention of satisfying the desires of the readers who are encouraged to continue writing, Maung Sein Maung and Kyung Kyung, and the strange and surprising events that Ma Khin Shwe will encounter, and not just by writing with the intention of continuing to write, but by appropriately modifying the content that is stored in the author's mind so that it can be accepted by modern people.

"The blue water of the lake is like a spring."

The whole book must continue to be written.

I sincerely wish the readers who are addicted to the stories of Yepyai Ai, who love the author, and who love and respect the author, to be happy in both body and mind.