Phnom Bros Phnom Srey

One upon a time, there was a queen named "Srey Ayuthyea", reigning in Khmer territory. During her reign, no man dared to propose a woman to marry her. By following her track, her female subordinates also asked the man to marry them. During that era, it was pitiful the unatactive woman who proposed the men to marry, but the men generally refused to accept their proposals.They only pecked girls to be their wives. This customer was carried out in the reign of Queen Srey Ayuthyea. In the later reign of other king, the woman assembled together and said " It is not appropriate for us to propose the men to marry. We will make a competition to make a hill. If the men lose the match, they must ask us to marry them. " After the discussion, they went to challenge the men to compete by piling up the hills with strict promise and conditions. Then the women selected group leader to collect the many member. As for the men, they did the same way by mobilizing a lot of members. After the discussion, they went to challenge the men to compete by piling up the hills with strict promise and the conditions. Then the women selected group leader to collect the many members. As for the, the men, they did the same way by mobilizing a lot of members. After meeting together, the women group leader said to the men group leader, "We all have to pile up a hill for each group from the falling of the dusk until the morning stars rise up." After the agreement the two women sides began to carry the soil, some carried it on their heads, some carried it with a bar across the shoulders, and some carries with baskets. when the night came in and after the women carries the soil for many hours, they came up with an idea. They played trick to put up a small lantern on a high post at the northeast. When seeing the lantern and supposing at as a morning star, the men asked all of their members to stop working and went to sleep. As for the women, they continued to carry the soil to pile up their hill until the morning star shone. Once cocks crowed at dawn, the men got up and saw the morning stars shining and exclaimed, "We are all wrong. The morning stars have just shone." And then the men saw the women's hill was higher than theirs, they felt great ashamed because they were cheated by the women. Since then men request women to marry.
If we travel from Phnom Penh city to Kampong Cham Province along national road 6A, arriving sign-post number 116, and have a look at the northeast of the left side of the national road, about one Kilometer from the road, we will see two hills standing side by side. The higher one is Phnom Bros(man hill).

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