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| Makam Hang Tuah in Tanjung Kling, Melaka. |
"Hang Tuah existed in flesh and blood.
Hang Tuah was a legendary Malay warrior as proven in the research.
-- said State Museums Department director Khamis Abas .
The NST report:
Khamis said the state government recognises Hang Tuah as a Malay warrior and he is not mythical.
"We recognise Hang Tuah as a living person and, upon his death, Hang Tuah was laid to rest at makam Hang Tuah in Tanjung Kling here," he told the New Straits Times yesterday.
Historian Professor Emeritus Tan Sri Khoo Kay Kim had said that Hang Tuah and his companions -- Hang Jebat, Hang Kasturi, Hang Lekir and Hang Lekiu -- never existed.
The NST visited the Hang Tuah mausoleum and noted that the inscription near Hang Tuah's tomb described him as a legendary Malay hero during the Malacca sultanate and he had served under three sultans. Baca seterusnya kat sini
I'm no historian but Hang Tuah as a Malay warrior had always been a historical fact to me....
Is there proof that he never existed?
2 comments:
hang tuah adalah kisah dongeng .. atau hang tuah melarikan diri semasa melaka diserang... berpijaklah dibumi nyata... hang tuah adalah dongeng...
Menurut Andaya (2002), Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat dan Hang Kasturi adalah pemimpin ulung kaum Orang Asli. Kekuasaan Orang Asli dalam pemerintahan Melaka serta kerajaan-kerajaan melayu yang lain mengalami kemerosotan dengan kematian ketiga-tiga tokoh ini. Pendapat ini dipetik dari Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, Macmillan, London 1906 karangan Skeat, W.William and C.O. Blagden.
Andaya juga memetik pendapat Juli Edo, seorang ahli antropologi dari etnik Semai yang mengatakan bahawa Hang Tuah dan Hang Jebat adalah Orang Asli. Hang Tuah ialah Orang Jakun (Winsdtedt, 1935). Hang Tuah dan keluarganya berpindah ke Hulu Perak selepas kematian Hang Jebat.
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