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Built in 1937 by the entrepreneurial and charismatic Aw Boon Haw, Haw Par Villa is the quintessential house of Chinese folklore. Described by various visitors as "fascinating, delightful, bizarre and entertaining", Haw Par Villa is like no other place in the world in the old days.
Statues and figurines replicate Chinese mythology characters like the Laughing Buddha and the Fu Lu Shou (Taoist deities). A must-see exhibit is the Ten Courts of Hell, featuring the ten steps of judgement before reincarnation. Literal and leaving nothing to the imagination, the statues and sets immortalise moral values and Chinese cultural heritage for generations to come.
Unfortunately, today there seems to be lack of interest as a tourist destination.
序：虎豹别墅之旧地重游
对于虎豹别墅我并不陌生，而最早的记忆被封锁在40年前的留影里，对于一个还不到两岁大的孩子的眼里，虎豹别墅该是个神秘的小天地吧？借由老照片中记忆，儿时的我至少到过别墅三次，但接下来的岁月中，在没有留影之下就不可考了。 年少的我对虎豹别墅并没有兴趣，也不曾有过重游的想法因此也错过它那辉煌时刻。
传说中的龙出现了也很快的消失了，当我因摄影的缘故而重游时那龙已不复存在，曾经辉煌的别墅迎接我的只有无尽的沧桑与落寞。干枯的小河已水声不再，所有的零售业也人去楼空，剩下只有零零落落的访客与清洁人员。
丰富的中国神话与民间故事造型，是它吸引人之处，色彩斑斓的彩绘和那与现代颇有差距的人物雕像，更是此地非常独特之处。虽然经过无数次的整修后，77岁高龄的它像一个时间胶囊，以不变应着万变，在岁月的变迁中求存。
这次的重游是为了找寻儿时的记忆，但此行并不能唤起我任何的记忆。望着熟悉但又陌生的雕像，只剩下感叹，感叹着无情的岁月摧残着雕像，仿佛也在摧残着自己一般。
在接下来的日子里我将再度的重游别墅，试图唤回遗失的记忆，若不能的话那序有可能也是终。
Taken in Haw Par Villa, Singapore
Haw Par Villa (Chinese: 虎豹別墅; pinyin: Hǔ Bào Biéshù) 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.
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Blood and Gore. A walk through the mouth into the belly of a dragon in the Tiger Balm Gardens brings you to a rather grisly and bizzare exhibition called ten stages to hell. This gory spectacle is one of the final stages where sinners are dismembered or torn to death. (Aug. 2002)(Loss of colour and quality due to scan from print: photo was taken on 35mm film).
From Wikipedia: "Laughing Buddha" is the common English name for the Buddhist figure variously known as Budai or Hotei (布袋). He is the interpretation of the Bodhisattva Maitreya (translated as Mílè Fó (彌勒佛) in Chinese), the predicted Buddha to succeed Gautama Buddha in the future.
One of the more pleasant depictions in the Tiger Balm Gardens is this Laughing Buddha. The park otherwise looked rather run down and decreipt. Believe it or not, I once had a paunch almost as large as that! (Aug. 2002)(Loss of colour and quality due to scan from print: photo was taken on 35mm film).
a visit to tiger balm garden with Arkira and gang. I thought it was a place long dead but apparently the Japanese guide book still writes about it. I'm pretty sure they havent update in awhile :(
I was about 10 the last time I went and had night-mares the following night after viewing all the strange sculptures with strange stories - Chinese version of hell. Rabbit and goat in human clothes going to have sex? naked mermaids with strange faces? White bear (polar bear???) in the mountains that looks like wolf? and the strangest of all has got to be crab with human head and there are plentiful around. strange.. strange...
heard they are tearing down the place for good next year, so do drop by the 10 levels of hell and see your punishment for the bad deeds you have committed this lifetime. I merely cheated during exam when i was a kid and my internal organs has got to be dug out when I die. wtf?
hence for the above you know what to expect - heavy content with violent nature. and to think this was "the place" the hang out during the 70s. yes, packed like orchard road like today!
Built in 1937 by the entrepreneurial and charismatic Aw Boon Haw, Haw Par Villa is the quintessential house of Chinese folklore. Described by various visitors as "fascinating, delightful, bizarre and entertaining", Haw Par Villa is like no other place in the world in the old days.
Statues and figurines replicate Chinese mythology characters like the Laughing Buddha and the Fu Lu Shou (Taoist deities). A must-see exhibit is the Ten Courts of Hell, featuring the ten steps of judgement before reincarnation. Literal and leaving nothing to the imagination, the statues and sets immortalise moral values and Chinese cultural heritage for generations to come.
Unfortunately, today there seems to be lack of interest as a tourist destination.
Built in 1937 by the entrepreneurial and charismatic Aw Boon Haw, Haw Par Villa is the quintessential house of Chinese folklore. Described by various visitors as "fascinating, delightful, bizarre and entertaining", Haw Par Villa is like no other place in the world in the old days.
Statues and figurines replicate Chinese mythology characters like the Laughing Buddha and the Fu Lu Shou (Taoist deities). A must-see exhibit is the Ten Courts of Hell, featuring the ten steps of judgement before reincarnation. Literal and leaving nothing to the imagination, the statues and sets immortalise moral values and Chinese cultural heritage for generations to come.
Unfortunately, today there seems to be lack of interest as a tourist destination.