Saturday, June 13, 2020

DERIVATION OF RINPI VILLAGE NAME



Introduction

Rinpi village is one the village in Hakha township, Hakha district, Chin state, Myanmar and is situated at 22 degree, 46 minutes latitude and 93 degree, 46minute and its altitude is 1056. (http://1worldmap.com/Burma/Chin-State/Rinpi/1298739#read_wikipedia)

Rinpi village was founded by the five sons of Pu Ral Thang from Simpi. After being hatred by their step mother, their father Pu Ral Thang abandoned them three times. The first two times they came back, singing “Father is father, mother is mother”. But the third times, he threw them into the roaring river called Phau river after putting them inside the box. The current threw them toward the other side of the river. And they could not came back. Then, they made their living there. After monsoon season, Pu Ral Thang went there in order to know whether they died or alive. Fortunately, father and sons reunion at the other side of Phau river. So they named that very place as “Hmunhlipi”. Hmun stand for “the place where father and sons met”. Hli stand for “we are former wife descendants”. Pi means “We are from Simpi”. 

DERIVATION OF RINPI VILLAGE NAME