3 Beautiful Love Legends from Asia that Will Touch Your Heart
Though most love legends and stories are beautiful fairy tails, they teach the strength of love that can overcome all hardships including death. Today, experts from a popular Asian dating site are sharing famous Asian love legends that can touch any heart. Read on, to fill yourself with the beauty of these stories.
Daragang Magayon and Panganoron, the Philippines
The characters of this love story were immortalized even in the name of a local active volcano that threatens people even today. A beautiful maiden Daragang Magayon was the only daughter of Makusog. Many men came to Makusog to ask to marry his daughter. But beautiful Daragang Magayon didn’t like anyone, even the powerful hunter Pagtuga. She would always refuse any courtship.
One day an accident happened, and Daragang Magayon was drowning in a river. A young man, Panganoron, saw her and came to her rescue. These two fell in love at once. Panganoron proposed, and the father of the girl willingly agreed.
However, not everyone was happy about the engagement. Pagtuga lost his mind of envy and took the girl’s father, Makusog, hostage. He demanded that the man would cancel the marriage and order his daughter to become the wife of Pagtuga instead.
Panganoron was a mighty fighter as well. He led his close warriors to fight for his wife and her father. The battle was fierce, yet, Panganoron won. Two lovers hugged in relief. However, one of the enemy soldiers was still alive and shot Panganoron in the back. The young man died immediately. Daragang Magayon was so devastated by his death that didn’t think a minute to take his knife and take her own life as well.
The two lovers united in Heaven, while a beautiful mountain appeared on the top of their grave.
Orihime and Hikoboshi, Japan
This legend is popular in Japan and China. The two lovers and gods, Orihime and Hikoboshi, were separated by the Milky Way, and since then they can meet only once a year.
Orihime was the daughter of the Heaven King. Every day Orihime was weaving clothes for her father. The Heaven King invited Hikoboshi, the Cowherd Star, to meet his daughter. And they fell in love at once and got married.
The two lovers were so obsessed with their feelings that Hikoboshi started to walk his cows around Heaven, and Orihime stopped weaving clothes for her father. The King of Heaven got so angry that he prevent the lovers to meet.
Since then they can meet only once a year, and if this day is rainy, it is believed that Orihime and Hikoboshi have to wait for one more year.
Jayaprana and Layonsari, Bali
This is a Bali version of Romeo and Juliet. According to the story several hundred years ago a boy Jayaprana from Kalinget became an orphan during the times of the plague. The King saw the boy, felt tremendous pity for him, and adopted Jayaprana. The boy was trained as a soldier and became a strong fighter.
One day, he met a beautiful maiden on the market. Jayaprana didn’t hesitate and married her. The king was happy to celebrate the wedding of his son and organized a big wedding ceremony for him. However, when the king saw the beautiful wife, he got envious and dark feelings started to grow in his soul.
The king got so obsessed with the idea to get the beauty that he created an awful plan how to get rid of Jayaprana and take his wife. He ordered his general to go away from the palace with Jayaprana and kill him. The general attacked Jayaprana but he was a too-good fighter and managed to fight back. The general had to confess that he got this awful order from the king.
Jayaprana was astonished by the king’s order but had to obey. He removed the amulets and let the general stub him. As Jayaprana died, a wild tiger jumped out of the forest and killed the general.
When everyone found out about the death of Jayaprana, the king ordered his widow to marry him. However, Layonsari took her own life so as not to betray Jayaprana even after death. The two lovers were buried together in the forest, and people built a temple on their grave, which still symbolizes the deep feelings of Jayaprana and Layonsari.