Ⅰ.IntroductionAnother celebrated oicotype or folk culture of the Malay culture is the pantun which is another form of oral literature that has been transmitted from one generation to another in the Malay Archipelago merely via the oral tradition.Literary scholars are also of the view that we are completely in the dark as to the origins and original meaning of the word “pantun”[1]57.Orientalists like Hans Overbeek ( 1922)[2],Richard James Wilkinson and Richard Olaf Winstedt ( 1923)[3] had attempted to link the origins of pantun to the influence of Indian and Chinese traditional poetry because of the Indian seloka and some verses in the Chinese Shi-Qing (Ⅺ - Ⅵ B.C.) which has the same twofold structure in a four-line stanza[4]120.Below is an example of the Chinese traditional poetry translated by L.Cranmer Byng in The Book of Odes that has a form similar to the Malay pantun.