Krom Nguy Lbeuk Thmei

Khmer literary scholar Kram Ngoy, who is recognized by all Khmers as the creator of the law, instructs and advises Khmer children and creates Khmer idioms. He was born in 1865, Kampoul commune, Phnom Penh district, now called Ang Snoul district in Kandal province, with the original name Ouk Ou, but his parents called him Ngoy. The name has since passed away in 1939 at the age of 71.

Nam Ouk's father was the commune chief in Kambol commune, with the title Chao Ponhea Thammatheara, and his mother was Ponhea Muk's son. Spean Thmor commune, district, province together, where parents have to share a cousin.

As a child, Khmer literary scholar Kram Ngoy went to study with the chief abbot of Ang Boeng Chak pagoda in his hometown. As a diligent child, he was ordained as a monk, and he became proficient in Dhamma. At the age of 21, he became a monk. Study the Dhamma and seek to learn the first translation of the Trinity in the presence of Acha Tith Kong, Boeung Chak Pagoda, Bek Skor Village, Bek Chan Commune Phnom Penh District, Kandal Province. After converting to the Three Noble Truths, Bhikkhu Ngoy sought to study meditation in many other places.

After conducting the seminar, he got married in Bek Chan commune, Phnom Penh district and became a farmer. Normal in that district. He had six children, Achar Chong, a well-known poet and orator, who was inducted into a political prison in the 1955 general election. Competitive democracy and the Sangkum Reastr Niyum Party.

In his life as a farmer, Ta Ngoy was very popular in rhetoric and tricks, immediately recited poems, sang up and sang beautifully. He has a high level of spiritual knowledge that makes other farmers love him as a scholar in the village, and the locals call him Phirum Ngoy. The authorities then appointed Chea (Kram) as the liaison between the administration and the people in the commune.

During the dry season, after the harvest work, Khmer writers Kram Ngoy always recited and taught to recite poems with the melody of Sadieu. A village crying with pity for each other from poverty, poverty, ignorance, quarreling, division. Etc. Contrary to the tax weight of the French government, agility, cleverness, deception of foreigners, Chinese, Vietnamese and so on. A famous question from this artist poet came to the city and Samdech Chakrei called to sing to King Sisowath Penh Preah He was rewarded with money and the title of Phirumya language.

This famous question from Ta Ngoy was known to Mr. Cédes, a member of the French School in the Far East, who took her to see Ms. Susan. Capelé, Director of the Buddhist Academy, published four books of Ta Ngoy poetry. Srika Peles was paid 1 riel at that time. 1 riel is really small, but this gift is almost considered as history, showing that not all French colonists came to oppress Khmer are some scholars who love Khmer culture and want to keep it as a humanitarian work. When the Khmer literary scholar Kram Ngoy passed away, he left his last work as a Kram Ngoy word, showing ignorance and laziness. The drag of our people in the face of the agility, intelligence, exploitation of foreigners, Chinese, Vietnamese and so on.

Excerpted from 20th Century Khmer Literature