How do southaest asin artist helpus understand character traits of their country
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Most traditional plays and dramatic dances are derived from mythological and legendary sources. The tribal epics that relate the origin of the Ifugao and the Bicolano peoples in the Philippines and a number of animistic stories in Indonesian shadow theatre are indigenous myths of great age, while the widely used, romantic Pandji cycle from Java and the Thai King Abhai Mani and Khun Chang Khun Phan are more recent local legends. The most important dramatic sources, however, are borrowed from the Indian Ramayana and Mahabharata epics, from the Jataka Buddhist birth stories, from Chinese novels (such as The Romance of the Three Kingdoms) and Chinese operas, and from a host of Islamic stories, including the Thousand and One Nights and the Amīr Ḥamzah tales. These foreign stories are turned into local legends. For example, the Indian Prince Rama becomes a Thai, a Balinese, or a Javanese prince, embodying the heroic traits admired in each of these countries.
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