A moment of thoughts;
In 2 weeks time, an hundred year old temple in Central Singapore will closed down due to the land was being planned to built new Commercial Buildings.
From this incident, it's not difficult to discover that, in our Country, Old & Rich Heritage Buildings are not secured by its Value, instead, Newly built Buildings are constructed telling the others that our Homeland "Respected" our History. Don't it sounds contradicting?
Secondly, assistance among the Chinese Community and Taoist Society is really weak. When such incidents happened years ago, the Chinese Authorities shall had step
out to provide their very best assistance for preserving the Heritage & Culture. To our disappointment, they didn't do it.
Lastly, some people had been spending lots of money on preserving our very own Chinese Culture, are these people really doing it? Are they just putting on a show to let those who are not in this Community or Society to see? Do these people really understand what is the Real Value of our Heritage & Culture? Sad to say, I have yet to see it and many people out there have yet to sense it.
So in Summary, for the past 10 years, what are those campaigns/events on Protecting Chinese Heritage & Culture for? Just to meet quota? Let's ponder all the above points again to reflect on this serious issue.
The government spent so much money in creating pseudo heritages such as the over-worked Chinatown which is so fake, and blatantly Chinese. When it comes to this, they just keep a closed eye, for they are only interested in economic development and touristic gains. They are simply ignorant and just don't care that the religious distinctiveness is deeply rooted and intertwined with the people, giving us Chinese an identity of our own.
ReplyDeleteWell said William. This is the sad thing that disappointed alot of people.
ReplyDeletehaiz... wondering what will happen in 10-20 years time...
ReplyDeleteBy then, Chinese and Taoist culture n heritage will
ReplyDeleteBe gone.
which temple that is closing down?
ReplyDeleteSifu Jave This is So Sad!! I am Most sorry for the loss!
ReplyDeleteYup, it's sad. After this, another 100 over years Temple will also be affected, as their lease for the land is expiring soon.
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