Legend on Mount Girls Sleeping on your back

Tapaktuan City Tapaktuan can not be separated from the legend of the dragon princess and a magic ascetic. This story has been a history of oral coastal community of South Aceh for generations.

It is said that according to the story, live a powerful ascetic. He meditated on a mountain now known as Mount Tuan. When viewed carefully, the mountain is like a girl who sleeps on her back with long hair decomposes.

"When viewed from the Mountain Lights, Mt Tuan looks like a sleeping princess, if it does not cover the top of its fog, its shape can look like this picture," Chaidir said while showing a picture in the legendary book of Tapa and the Dragon Princess he wrote.

According to the story, many people want to come to the top of Mount Tuan but nothing works. Only a lost or accidental person can reach its peak. At the top of the mountain there are fruits that if eaten by the person can return home. But if the fruit is about to be brought home, then he will return lost.

Dragon legend tells of a pair of male and female dragons that inhabit the Tapaktuan bay. Both were expelled from China for not having offspring. Once these two dragons found a baby girl floating in the ocean and then kept lovingly to become a beautiful girl.

Once a ship came from the Asralanoka Kingdom in South India where some 17 years earlier the king lost a baby who was swept into the sea. The king recognizes the girl who treated the dragon as his son who is missing from the birthmark on the soles of his feet.

King Asralanoka intends to reclaim the girl who is believed to be his son. But the pair of dragons refused because it was considered as his own son. The king then attempted to take the girl to her ship. This made the dragons angry and there was a great fight to disturb the peace of an ascetic on Mount Tuan.

Tapa Tapa sees a great battle between a ship's passenger and a pair of dragons. He then tried to intervene and jumped into a mountain - now called the Lamp Mountain - with its stick and stick. He persuaded the dragon to return the girl to her parents. But the dragon would challenge Mr. Tapa. Fierce battle was inevitable.

In the fight, the male dragon was defeated. The male dragon was killed by the blow of Tuan Tapa's baton. His body was destroyed and scattered blood spreading disperse land, rocks, hills, and also sea water. The heart and body of the dragon are shattered to pieces that have now become rocks and can be found in the coastal villages of Batu Itam and Batu Merah about 3 kilometers from the center of Tapaktuan City.

Similarly, the remaining footrest of Mr. Tapa is still visible in Tapak Tuan Tapa's tour. The sticks and the now stone become about 1 kilometer from the site.

Meanwhile, the female dragon who saw her mate killed immediately fled back to the land of China. While fleeing, he went berserk and split an island into 2 which is now called Pulau Dua. He also ravaged the big island to 99 small islands. Now the island group is called the community as Pulau Banyak in Aceh Singkil district.

About a week after the incident Mr Tapa disappeared around the Lamp Mountain. Most people believe Mr. Tapa is sick and is buried near the Lamp Lights precisely in front of Tuo Mosque, Gampong Padang, Padang Village, Tapaktuan Subdistrict, South Aceh. Grave with the size of about 14 x 4 meters that until now still often visited by pilgrims both local and foreign.

"Actually it was not a tomb but the last place Mr Tapa disappeared, but many people think of it as Tuan Tapa's grave," Chaidir said.

Tuan Tapa's cemetery has experienced several restorations during the Dutch East Indies Government. In 2003 and then former President Soesilo Bambang Yudhoyono alias SBY ever made a pilgrimage to the tomb of the sacred.

After the battle, the girl who is now known as the Youngest Princess or Dragon Princess is returned to her parents, King Asranaloka. But they did not return to the kingdom, but chose to live on the coast. Their existence is believed to be the forerunner of the Tapaktuan community. While the king's ship has now become a stone located in the Village Damar Tutung about 20 kilometers from the center of Tapaktuan City.