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Toum Teiv is the story that every Khmer knows, remembers and tells to each other from one generation to another till today. According the literature researchers, this story is the true story happening during Long Vek era in the 16th century. Although this story was forbidden to be recalled in Tbong Khmom in that period, in 1915 during the Sisowat reign, Guru Bothom Thesom, the senior monk of Kompril Pagoda of Srey Sithor Kandal district of Prey Veng province was compiling and recording documents. Toum Teiv is the perfect work of literature written in 7 word poem. In 1942 of Sihanouk Reign, Nukorn poet re-wrote this story, but he changed the name to “Teiv Ek” written in 8-word poem of Oknha. Vibol Sena Nukorn is also well-known, because it has some new light. According to Ly Theam Teng, poet Sonthor Mok wrote this story as well, but the original file was not found except some scattered draft which was not enough. Phd. King Hok Dy in Meary Literature in the 19th Literature book, page 200 he just pointed out that a group of professors published “Toum Teiv” which concluded that the achievement of Sonthor Mok. However, the stories are not different from each other and the explanations and the meaning of the stories are similar, though they are not deep explanations till today. This story is known by everybody, I just explain some issues in the story. And the article that I am going to use as the source is from Botom Thesom. Generally, people think that “Toum Teav” is the story about the pure love between Toum and Teiv. When Toum had been arrested by Orchum/ Meoun Ngoun’s people and taken to be executed, Teiv also committed suicide as well. We could see that the faithfulness of Teiv for Toum is the thing that we cannot deny. And the question that we can ask is "Does a woman who has such a great love for a man can keep her consciousness to satisfy her mother and abandon her dearest lover?" Regularly, love always influences everything, but in Cambodian civilization, though love is great, he/she cannot or doesn’t dare to do something against parents. It’s true that Teav’s love to Toum is such a great love, because Teav dared to make love with Toum without a bit knowledge from her mother. And at that time Toum just leaved from monkhood. In fact, the important point that they didn’t notice is at that time, especially when Teav saw Toum at the first time, love of both persons was really really strong, meaning that not caring about anything, but after that when both lovers were presented as husband and wife by the king, the power of love decreased gradually. In a scientific analyzing and referring to the article, they could see that when meeting Teav again at the Royal Palace, there was a little change of Teav’s mind, and Toum seemed to sing in order to insult her as well, and the king, he couldn't lower himself as the Toum’s rival. However, eventually Teav agreed with her mother to marry with Meoun Ngoun—abandoning Toum, though she still loved Toum, because he was the first man whom she knew and chose, but what we have to understand as well in order to avoid confusion about this problem is Teav’s love to Toum developed to the other new point when Teav met Toum in the Royal Palace. Another question that we could ask is "Why did Teav agree to isolate herself from both Toum and the King when Teav had ability to ask for help from the King?" As for Toum, when he met Teav marrying with Meoun Ngoun, he also had ability to recover the situation, but we observed that even though he had the Royal Seal (the king order), Toum didn’t use it. What did Toum observe about the character of Teav at Or chum/Meoun Ngoun’s house that made Toum not care about anything till they brought him to kill? This is the question that should be taken into consideration more in order to keep as a light in searching for science. The situation of Khmer women in Toum Teav Story By Vandy Caon Today I would like to describe for the audience about the situation of Khmer women in Toum Teav Strory. As what you have known, from the beginning, Khmer society is the matriach society, meaning that women had significant roles in the society, but then because of the influence from other culture like Hinduism Culture and Chinese Culture, the situation of women had changed a lot. Hinduism Culture or Brahmanism culture was extracted from Vedd law book which had been brought from Iran to north-eastern India by Arayan in the 4th century before Christ. It’s true that Hinduism was developed from Vedd law book, meaning that Vedd law book was illustrated according to the feeling or mind of each person, so the meaning is far from the original book. However, Hinduism culture still practices classes of the society. When this influence came into Cambodia by God-king belief—the King was regarded as the God could not be below the Women. Since then, the struggling between Mother Society which is completly Khmer custom and Father Society which is the culture of Hinduism has happened. However, these two cultures didn’t lose or win each other. The main political institutions depended on Hinduism, but for the daily lives women still had influences to men whatever context. This controversy has existed since the past like what we have learnt from Ka Kei story and other tales in which there was a lot of struggling of women against the power or some authorities which was occupied by men, especially the king who represent all gods in the universe. In Toum Teav story, in Long Vek era women almost lost all primary authorities, but we also see that Teav still tried to keep her rights very strictly, she decided not to choose the king, but Toum. When Teav was cut off from Toum to marry Meaun Ngoun by her mother, she decided by herself to do what her mother ordered as Toum had no power over her. It’s true that Teav was under pressure of her mother, but other decisions are also hers as well. When she was marrying Meoun Ngoun while Toum was arriving, Toum had no right to decide anything even though Toum had the Royal Seal. Having no idea, nothing Toum could did except drank wine to drown his sorrow. So we can see that Teav who decided her fortune by her own did what her mother asked for. However, she had implemented the self-decided character since she met Toum at the first time, she decided to have Toum and Pich lecturing and chanting loudly and harmoniously at her house. Teav’s mother didn’t care about the king’s order as well. The king who agreed to marry Toum to Teav. This act showed that Teav’s mother used all her right as a mother, despite the king’s order she was still not afraid of anything, but the king had struggled to get his authority done as the king by publicly punishing whoever dared to look down on his authority. Not only in Toum Teav story can they see this struggling, but they can also see such a controversy in the Khmer custom and Khmer language.