Title - Colourful Burma
Author - Khin Myo Chit
Enlarged Edition – 3000 copies
First Published - May 1978
By Khin Myo Chit, Theikdi Sarzin
(Reg: 01352) 505/8 Prome Road Ave.
Kamayut P.O Rangoon
Copyright - Khin Myo Chit
Illustrations by; U Ba Kyi, Tin Win
and SanToe
Cover – San Toe
Others – Anawrahta of Burma, Burmese
Scene and Sketches, Flowers and Festivals Round the Burmese Year, A Wonder Land
of Burmese Legend
More Publications - 1983, 1988, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006,
2007, 2008, 2010, 2012
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‘Colourful Burma (Enlarge
Edition) is a combined volume of Colourful Burma, published in 1976 and Burmese
Scenes and Sketches, published in 1977. Cover design- San Toe.
the first (1983) and the second
series (1984) of ‘Colourful Burma’ by the cover design Tin Win ….'
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| and 1988, With
the cover illustration of U Ba Kyi, the two volumes of ‘Colourful Burma’
1995, from Parami book shop,
‘Colourful Myanmar’ (the same book of ‘Colourful Burma’) was published.
Illustrations inside were U Ba Kyi, San Toe, Shwe Soe Han, Kyaw Phyu San.
About Book
This collection of articles and stories which originally
written for newspapers and magazines, might be of some help to the non-Burmese
in getting to know Burma and the Burmese
way of life.’ ‘The articles on Burmese women which were written for the
newspaper during the International Women’s Year, 1976, had to be executed from
this edition owing to limitations of space.’ (Preface from ‘Colourful Burma’ by
U Khin Maung Latt, my grandpa who always be her loving partner for the rest of
life.)
There were many parts divided with
associated chapters. In ‘Life and customs’, we can see our nonsense songs and
Burmese style, etc. Some custom as ‘the art of chewing betel’ or some Burmese
idiom as ‘A Quid of Betel & A Cup of Water’ were now our young people would
rarely heard of it.
Burmese New Year falls in the second
week of April (not January as foreign countries believed), the author gave
information about the thingyan festival of the month. On this ‘Festivals’, the
reader can have enjoyed reading about the custom of Buddhist families and their
way of Buddhists life.
Many elements within some chapters
especially on ‘Short Stories’ and ‘Life in War Time Burma’ follow events in the
author’s own life, are probably the most autographical of all of her writings.
In the former lines on the ‘The Golden Princess’, my grandma wrote,
“…..disappointment to her father because she was not a boy, to her mother she
was ugly.” Some short stories told her lonely childhood although it was happy
ending.
Epilogue
However her writings focus on
Burmese customs or Burmese festivals or Buddhist Way of Life, etc, her personal
history, her adventures or her experiences are clearly marked on all her
stories and sketches. The reader can easily grasp the author’s childhood or
literary life or the risk in wartime life that she shows up on all her writing.
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