It tells the story of a poor farmer who is paid handsomely by a magical bird after letting it feed on his starfruit tree, and his rich older brother who perishes from his own greediness.

The first variant of the story was collected by scholar Nguyễn Như Ngọc in the first volume of his Truyện cổ nước Nam (lit.

[3] Vietnamese folklorist Nguyễn Đổng Chi in his Kho tàng truyện cổ tích Việt Nam (lit.

[4] The Golden Starfruit Tree is one of Vietnamese fairy tales adapted by Cổ tích Việt Nam (lit.

[5] The episode was released in 1993, featuring Hồng Tơ, Tô Kiều Lan, Hoàng Thơi and Kim Anh.