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International Tourist Guide Day 2010 *

 
Living Traditions @ Chinatown, Singapore
 
Join the Free Walking Tours organized by Society of Tourist Guides (Singapore). Let professional tourist guides show you the living traditions that are being practiced in Chinatown on three new one-hour trails.
 
Date:   Saturday, 13 March 2010 Venue:  Kreta Ayer Square
Registration starts:  9.30 am Last tour starts: 3.30 pm
   
 For enquiries, please contact:  Society of Tourist Guides (Singapore)
   
Tel: (65)6338 8659  Email: soctg@singnet.com.sg
 
* Event supported by: Singapore Tourism Board & Chinatown Business Association
 

Secret of the Clans

Happiness, Success & Longevity

Call of the Faithful

 

Venture with us as we go behind-the-scenes of traditions purer than pure, kept alive in this age-old institution – the clan association.

The first dating back to as early as 1819, these institutions made our forefathers a home again when they arrived in this foreign land.

Did you know that Bukit Pasoh was once known as the ‘Street of Clans’, so-named after the many clans that were situated on the street? More so, did you know that Chinatown is the birth place of kung fu and the art of lion dance, as they are practiced in Singapore?

Join us on a story that features the likes of Wong Fei Hong. Learn how to greet your opponent in a polite way…and in a not-so-polite way! And for the adventurous, reclaim your heritage by wielding a lion head today.

 

Ah, the many dreams of our forefathers. Best encapsulated in the words, ‘Fu, Lu and Shou’ – Happiness, success and longevity.

Who succeeded, and who did not? In 1950s, success would have been defined by a night at The Great Southern Hotel. This was Chinatown in its heyday when cabarets, opera houses, night markets earned it its name, ‘Bu Ye Tian’ – where night never comes.

Yet theirs was the road of the hard and narrow. The journey of the migrant’s struggle lives on today in age-old businesses still operating in Chinatown. Relive their story of rags to riches. Take a literal pinch of yin and yang at a traditional medicinal shop. Indulge in the scent of pastries, bak kwa, and tea, prepared the way they have always been prepared, decades ago.

 

Bells are rung, hymns are sung, gongs are struck and verses ring in chant.

In a place where the roads go by the names of Temple, Mosque and Pagoda Streets, it is hard not to hear the call of the faithful.

Join us on a story that began with Sir Stamford Raffles. Who knew that a purely administrative plan would bring to birth two communities living side by side?

Marvel at religious harmony in play and take a peek into the mysteries of the universe, all along the short stretch of South Bridge Road alongside Chinatown.

When entering the places of worship: 

Please wear appropriate attire to show respect; no bare backs, off-shoulders, shorts, mini-skirts, etc

 
 
Society of Tourist Guides (Singapore)
420 North Bridge Road, #03-10 North Bridge Centre. Singapore 188727
Phone: (65) 63388659, Fax: (65) 63388237, E-mail: soctg@singnet.com.sg