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Hang Tuah and his companions are Ming imperial eunuchs cum body guards with excellent martial art skills who accomplished Hang Li Poh to Melaka.
There are local scholars saying the name ‘Hang’ exists in Padang Lawas Sumatra, Indonesia.
But why Hang Li Poh is believed was a princess from the Ming emperor, not a princess from Sumatra.
Hang Li Poh is not a real Ming princess should not come as a big surprise. In Chinese history, sometimes the emperor adopted a palace waitress or concubine as her foster princess before she was sent off to a foreign land for diplomacy marriage with a king or an emperor.
Chinese dominant race is Han, it could written as Hang in ancient Malay language. Hang Ling Poh and her royal body guards like Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, etc. were given a common surname or title “Hang” for representing Han emperor.
This also explain Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, Hang Kasturi, Hang Lekir and Hang Lekiu were not siblings, but merely close friends.
Why no descendants found for Hang Tuah and his comrades in Melaka? Because they were eunuchs from the Ming imperial palace.
Only DNA or carbon tests on Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, etc. remains and compare with the population with Hang name in Sumatra, local Malay and Mainland Nanjing Chinese can approve or disapprove my hypothesis on Hang Tuah is a Chinese.
UMNO will use religion sensitivity to prevent DNA tests because my hypothesis is more rational than the myths in our history text book.
It’s a huge blow to Malay supremacy ego if Hang Tuah and his companions are proven as Han Chinese.
Gapena chairman Professor Abdul Latiff Bakar, meanwhile, disagreed over the notion that Hang Tuah did not exist
“It does not mean that Hang Tuah did not exist.”
“He existed in the Malay historical source, not the Arab or Chinese historical source,” Latiff said, adding that Hang Tuah’s village existed in Duyung.
I am not a historian, but I know a professional and objective evidence on a historical personality and dynasty is based on
- Related artifacts and tomb for the person or king.
- Cross reference on written records from several sources. By quoting a written record or source only is never a reliable historical record.
“Sejarah Melayu” was not written during the Melaka Sultanare period is another question mark on its accuracy unlike Chinese imperial records. The Ming dynasty has more than 10 million pages of royal family journal which are still well preserved in the museum.
For instance, China documented history is 5000 year, but its verified history is only tracked back to 3500 year ago after the discovery of Yin dynasty’s artifacts and a tomb of Yin queen.
Melaka Sultanate verified history is ZERO after it lost all imperial records in the war with Portuguese. The sultans and its court official tombs have to be digged out to see any artifacts buried with them or not to prove the existence of Melaka sultanate.
Melaka sultanate history is based on a single Malay historical source, Malay Annals. This is a myth like those China history earlier than 3500 year.
To claim Hang Tuah’s village is in Duyung is another myth. An undated ancient well is used as proof for Hang Tuah’s birth place is another Bolehland joke.
No kiddling, my grandma’s old house used to have a well constructed with similar type of red stones used in the Hang Tuah’s well.
Why not a single Hang Tuah’s offspring found in Duyung Melaka? This is the hard evidence we need to prove Hang Tuah is a real Malay warrior existed in Malaysia history.
I have doubt the existence of Princess Hang Li Poh since I was in primary school.
The reason is simple, the princess of Ming emperor should be with surname, Chu or Choo. Hang Li Poh could be a royal title to a princess or any concubine in the palace. Unfortunately, no such Ming empirical record mentions any princess or concubine with the name or royal title, Hang Li Poh.
“Hikayat Hang Tuah” was written after two or three hundred years later is fulled with stories, folktales and legends. No historians except Bolehland historians take such accounts as true and authentic historical facts.
Another funny thing is there are royal families claim they are Melaka sultan descendants, but no one come forward to claim he/she is a Hang Tuah descendant.
Since there is so-called Hang Tuah tomb is Tanjung Keling, DNA testing on his remain should confirm Hang Tuah existence and his bloodline.
The only proof to say the existence of Hang Tuah is “Sejarah Melayu” [another problem is there are more than 20 versions of Malay Annals available] where Hang Tuah got no supernatural power and Hang Kasturi, not Hang Jebat was killed by Hang Tuah unlike those legend in the “Hikayat Hang Tuah”.
Ibrahim Ali got chance to be elevated as a new Malay hero to replace Hang Tuah.
‘Hang Li Po, Hang Tuah did not exist’
K Pragalath
Historian Prof Khoo Kay Kim says that the Ming dynasty’s records do not mention the princess or the famous warrior. He also points out that early Malaysian history is based on stories.
PETALING JAYA: According to history, Chinese Princess Hang Li Po was the fifth wife of Malaccan Sultan Mansur Shah who reigned from 1456-1477.
During this period, there was also the legend of the Sultan’s five famous warriors, Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, Hang Kasturi, Hang Lekir and Hang Lekiu. It is a tale of friendship and loyalty, which every Malaysian had heard.
However, renowned historian Prof Khoo Kay Kim told radio station BFM this morning that Hang Li Po and the five warriors never existed.
Speaking to FMT later, he explained: “The Chinese Ming dynasty of the 16th century does not have records on them. These are very well preserved records.”
The KDU college chancellor also said he had read the writings of two Western historians and another prominent historian Wang Gung Wu on the Ming records which did not mention the characters either.
“History must be based on empirical records. Historians must only accept written records,” he said, adding that empirical records available here were at best “skanky”.
“There is no evidence in the Malaysian records,” he said. “These are stories. Early Malaysian history is based on stories.”
“We have had many stories. Only recently historians have taken the trouble to research the early Malaysian history period. A lot of stories accepted in the past cannot be proven,” he added.
Khoo also told FMT that there are rumours that the Malacca kingdom was founded in 1292 even though there were records to prove that it was formed in the 15th century.
He added that the government had instructed the syllabus committee to go through the school history syllabus to rectify the errors.
The syllabus, said Khoo, would be introduced in the year 2014.
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2012/01/16/hang-li-po-hang-tuah-did-not-exist/
UMNO scholars twisted again to say Malaya was British protected states, not colonized states.
I advise those professors (not sure from which third-class universities) to open a good dictionary to understand what is sovereignty.
Malay sultans lost control for everything except for Islam and Malay customs matters to British, yet these professors shamelessly to claim Malaya was a sovereign nation.
Who pay the salary of policemen in the Bukit Kepong police station? The Johor sultan or British administration?
Can Prof. Khoo Kay Kim and Tun Hanif answer this basis historical question?
If the salary was paid by Johor Sultan, then Mat Sabu is wrong to say Mat Indera is a freedom fighter.
If the salary was paid by British, then Mat Sabu is right.
This is objective historical evidence beyond doubt.
If the communists won and controlled Malaya, they are the heroes, not terrorists as you read in the history textbooks and newspapers.
For the Bukit Kepong incident, UMNO-led BN government was trying hard to hide a fact that the communist leader led the attack is a Malay, named Muhammad Indera.
Those left-wing Malay, Chinese, Indian and others who fighted for Malaya independence from the British and Japan colonial powers should be recognized as freedom fighters. While those elements who refused to lay down their weapon after independence from British can be defined as rebels.
The whole story is the winner defined and wrote the history book, many unsung heroes will never be recognized by BN government for the political reason.
Probably this Mat Sabu controversy created by Utusan will expedite BN government to build a proper museum in Bukit Kepong, Muar. The project was delayed for years.
The “museum” is still an empty shell when I visited Kepong old police station two years ago during my balik kampung trip.
This is signage photo I took, broken English is used as usual by Tourism Malaysia. Please click the link for full size image.
Many see red over Mat Sabu’s statement
2011/08/28
By Rizalman Hammim and Masami Mustaza
KUALA LUMPUR: Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the alleged remarks by Pas deputy president Mohamad Sabu that the communist terrorists who attacked the Bukit Kepong police station in the 1950s were the true heroes of the country, was an insult to those who had fought for the country’s freedom.
The deputy prime minister was quoted by Bernama as saying that he was extremely disappointed that Mohamad, better known as Mat Sabu, had allegedly made such remarks at a political talk in Tasek Gelugor, Penang on Aug 21, as reported by a local daily.
He said the Pas leader was also reported to have claimed that Malaysia’s former prime ministers, the late Tunku Abdul Rahman and the late Datuk Onn Jaafar, did not qualify to be called freedom fighters.
“He has arrogantly hailed the CTs as heroes. Such remarks are a manifestation of Mat Sabu’s ignorance of the contributions of past Malay leaders in the fight to gain independence for Malaysia,” he said in a statement here yesterday.
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