Tapaktuan City Tapaktuan can not be separated from the legend of the dragon princess and a magic ascetic. This story has become the history of oral coastal community of South Aceh from generation to generation. 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 loose. "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 go 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 the person can return home. But if the fruit is about to be brought home, then he will return lost. Dragon legend tells the story of a pair of male and female dragons that inhabit the Tapaktuan bay. Both were expelled from China for having no children. 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 drifting 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 they had regarded as their own. 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 a hermit on Mount Tuan. Tapa Tapa saw a great battle between the ship's passengers and a pair of dragons. He then tried to intervene and jumped to a mountain - now called Mount Lamp - with his stick and stick. He persuaded the dragon to return the girl to her parents. But the dragon challenged 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 dispersed 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 stone now are 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 a size of about 14 x 4 meters is still often visited by pilgrims both local and foreign. "Actually it was not a tomb but Mr Tapa's last location disappeared, but many people think of it as Tuan Tapa's grave," Chaidir said. Tuan Tapa's mausoleum has undergone several refurbishments during the Reign of Hin. 
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