Memories – Myths
0Memories – Myths
Zaobao, March 25, 2012
Extract:
Art Festival General Manager Low Kee Hong : The pace of our development is getting quicker, every generation needs to preserve their memories, from the Railway Station, Methodist Girl School old school site to Bukit Brown Cemetery. But finally we are not unable to keep these environment, only preserve these memories in digital photographs or in our memories. But will these memories of ours became myths, lost poems or finally lost? He asked.
Memories, are what we seek for our individual spiritual existence, what is ironic is that when we want to build our future, we have to give up our own individual existence and become wandering souls.
That day, I stood by the cemetery of Shuang Long Shan, reminiscing of the distant legends of Lanfang Republic, and the thoughts flowed back of what Tan Chuan Jin said in Parliament using the words of Lim Kim San :”Do you want me to look after your dead ancestors, or do you want me to look after your grandchildren?” My heart could not but felt spasms of nerve pain…
by Chew Boon Long – Zaobao reporter
周文龙:记忆迷思
(2012-03-25)
漂流记
多亏徐家辉即将在新加坡艺术节演出的新戏《兰芳记》,否则我大概
已听说这坟场的风景奇特,但真正走进去,我还是觉得震撼莫名
双龙山坟场位于应和会馆的嘉应五属义祠后。虽说是山,但它并
这坟场所处位置也非常有意思。它的前方是联邦路的旧车场,后
一个象征死亡的坟场,却位于一个民生力量蓬勃的邻里,使到双
参观坟场那天,徐家辉解释着这坟地的历史背景时,组屋区就忽
严格来说,徐家辉这位青年艺术奖得主的新戏《兰芳记》,与双
根据了解,兰芳国全称“兰芳大统制共和国”,是1770年到18
罗芳伯具有政治才能,而且胸怀大志,领导当时南来的矿工们,
值得一提的是,兰芳共和国像新加坡,有着相似的地理面积、政
兰芳共和国历经10名领导人,建立107年后,终因国小力弱
这传奇也为徐家辉开启创作灵感。他大胆地奇想,兰芳国子民会
历史可以重建?记忆情感可以创造?这想法乍听有点不可思议,
今年新加坡艺术节主题为“迷思”,所谓迷思,指的是一些十分
艺术节总经理刘祺丰说,现在城市发展越来越快,每一代人都强烈
“可是我们这些记忆,最后会成为迷思、迷诗,还是迷失呢?”
记忆,原来是我们所要寻找的个人存在的精神灵魂,令人感到反
那天,我站在这双龙山坟场,遥想着兰芳国传说,然后又想起前阵子
(作者是本报记者)
Notes:
Lanfang Republic was the first Republic in Asia, set up in West Kalimantan in Indonesia, and was established by a Hakka Chinese.
Shuang Long Shan is a Hakka Cemetery situated near Holland Road Singapore, founded in 1887 to meet the burial needs of Ying Fo Fui Kuan, a Hakka clan association. Shuang Long Shan means Twin Dragon hill, in reference to the two hills in the vicinity of the 100 hectare land, thought to resemble reclining dragons.
Researchers are trying to find the links of our cemeteries including that of Bukit Brown to that of Lanfang Republic.
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