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The park's has a collection of over 1,000 statues and 150 giant tableaux centered around Chinese folklore, legends, history, and Confucian ideology.
On the pillars is a poem couplet written by Yu Da Fu, aptly describing Haw Par Villa then.
In the quietness of the hills amidst the rolling white clouds
There stand a bright glorious house like blossoming flower petals
You can see the vast and clear blue ocean
And grazes into the and ripples of the sea waves in the far horizon
The Tiger Balm Gardens, or Haw Par Villa, is a unique theme park in Singapore filled with vivid and often surreal statues depicting Chinese mythology, folklore, and moral stories. Created by the Aw family of Tiger Balm fame, it offers visitors a fascinating journey through traditional tales and cultural heritage in an eye-catching, colorful setting.
One of the numerous sculptures at Haw Par Villa in Singapore. They all reflect Chinese mythology in some way.
One of the sculptures inside Haw Par Villa, a theme park in Singapore devoted to traditional Chinese mythology. Not really sure what it's about, but given the amount of terror and torture present in the park, I'm guessing this isn't a friendly hug.
Haw Par Villa is a theme park located along Pasir Panjang Road, Singapore. The park contains over 1,000 statues and 150 giant dioramas depicting scenes from Chinese mythology, folklore, legends, history, and illustrations of various aspects of Confucianism.
The best known attraction in Haw Par Villa is the Ten Courts of Hell, which features gruesome depictions of Hell in Chinese mythology and Buddhism.
The park, originally called Tiger Balm Gardens, was built in 1937 by the Burmese-Chinese brothers Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par, the developers of Tiger Balm, as a venue for teaching traditional Chinese values. They moved their business from Burma to Singapore in 1926 and purchased the site in 1935. (wiki)
Haw Par Villa is a theme park located along Pasir Panjang Road, Singapore. The park contains over 1,000 statues and 150 giant dioramas depicting scenes from Chinese mythology, folklore, legends, history, and illustrations of various aspects of Confucianism. In March 2001, the Singapore Tourism Board renamed it "Tiger Balm Gardens".
source: wikipedia
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According to ancient myth, Venus was born blown ashore on a seashell. I'm guessing this is something entirely different... hehe. Actually, this is a sculpture from Haw Par Villa, a sculpture park in Singapore.
The dioramas display is a Chinese legend in the Tang Dynasty on the romance between a snake fairy, Bai Shu Zhen, and a mortal scholar.
This Humber motor car built in 1932 with a tiger head on the radiator and stripes painted on the body. The number plate, 8989, was a lucky number display at Haw Par Villa.
One of Ten Courts of Hell -
What is the weirdest thing to see in Singapore? For fans of Tim Burton or Salvador DalĂ, the macabre sculptures with tiny details at Haw Par Villa might fit their bill of a masterpiece. Originally built before the Second World War by Aw Boon Haw for his younger brother, the private domed shaped villas were demolished and the gardens at the lower tier developed over time into a theme park for the public. There are a collection of over a thousand statutes from Chinese mythological tales and legends around the terraced hill, dedicated to the teaching of morality. The main draw lies in a dimly lit cave that houses the “ten courts of hell”. Come take a stare at the galore of retributions for evil doers after death. In the chamber of mountain of knives, murderers are thrown on cliffs with sharp blades. An adulterer screams when he is fried in the cauldron of oil and it doesn’t stop there. To add plenty of drama, abusers of power are stacked on a stone mill and pulverized into powder. In the next scene, the show goes on a tomb raider with decapitated head and limbs. Who says kids are too young for this kind of taste? My parents brought me here when I was nine! To be fair, the gory life-sized dioramas are no worse than Western horror movies. Welcome, come on, my guests from abroad. The stuff you don’t even see in your dreams, we show it here. Admission to the netherworld is free, as long as you continue to live a life doing bad deeds. :)
P.S. From the point of artistic merit, I find the hand-painted faces rather skillful. After all, the dated but colorful sculpts (from cement plasters) are the handiworks of a small team of artisans. And the last in his eighties, is still keeping up with the restorative works on the cultural artifacts.
Yolanta, you can find Halloween toys and decors in Singapore shops, but generally it is not in our “communal consciousness” to celebrate the night of 31st October. Nevertheless, the zombie photos you shared from Montreal are an eye-opener. :)
One of the first places I visited during my 2 months stay in Singapore was Haw Par Villa. It's a theme park devoted to Chinese mythology, and it sports a lot of curious sculptures, some of them quite horrific. Here's Garuda, a bird mount of Lord Vishnu.