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“Guan Ti Old Temple”This is our believe, our story,
our history, our culture.
Chua Jia Cheng0315160
FNBE 04/13Culture and Civilisation
Table of Content
Title Page
Introduction 1 – 2
Design of temple 3 – 16
Activities in temple 17 – 20
Introduction
4
This temple is located in a small town call Lahad Datu. The temple was build even from the beginning of the town existence which have more than 100years of history. This temple was once request to be destruct but a lot of people refuse because of this unique temple that have lots of histories and memories.
Old pictures of the temple
5
Design of Temple
6
The temple is located in the town area where lots of people visit it7
The walls are already old but is still in good condition
8
Lion statue that is located just behind the front gate9
The old tree
planted in
the temple since the
beginning of
the temple
10
The roof has a special and detail style which has a detail craft of a lion head
11
The cauldron make with bronze
painted in gold located in front
of the temple
12
The unique and beautiful ceiling with dragon drawings
13
The word written on the left window is “千秋” and the
meaning is everlasting.
The word written on the right window is “忠义” and the
meaning is loyal
14
The main door to the temple is also drawn with a “Door God” image15
One of the specialty in this temple is the old painting on the wall of the temple16
Grandfather Clock which is older than me 17
This gong is hit when someone offers a joss stick18
There are lots of different god statue in this temple
For example “God of the earth”, “the tiger god”, “GuanYin” , the “Jade
Emperor”, “Monkey King” and many more.
19
Activities in temple
20
There are lots of ways for
people to pay back after
receive the blessing from
god
The pictures shows offering
from people which include money, food, joss stick and
many more
21
People lighting up the joss stick by using the fire
prepared at the temple22
A lot people offer their joss stick to the god for blessing for
the new year
There are lots of
smoke from joss stick
My dad offering joss stick to god
23
After I visited this old temple, I realise that there are still lots of people that maintaining the culture and they do not forget about the last generation’s hard work, I myself realize there are many culture that I have lost from generation to generation. I hope that this kind of good culture can be keep forever.