{"id":3109,"date":"2022-06-08T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2022-06-08T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T10:19:00","slug":"small-village-with-a-big-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/small-village-with-a-big-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Small village with a big story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Compassion : Mazu also known as Chinese Sea Goddess<\/strong><\/div>\n
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By Foong Pek Yee<\/div>\n
foongpekyee@gmail.com<\/a><\/div>\n
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The tallest Mazu statue in Malaysia is in Sungai Lembing Village.<\/div>\n
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Measuring 3.65 meter\u00d7 3.65 meter and 8.07 meter in height, it is housed in the\u00a0 Sungai Lembing Hainan Association’s Thean Hou Temple<\/div>\n
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” Mazu is an integral part of Hainan culture,” says the association chairman Datuk Dr Sunny Chan of the towering statue which went into the Malaysia Book of Record in 2019.<\/div>\n
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The village is about 45 minutes drive from Kuantan, Pahang.<\/div>\n
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Always together: Thean Hou Temple and Hainanese community.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Flagship: Sungai Lembing Hainan Association also housed HillVille Inn which is a guesthouse with a Hainanese restaurant on the ground floor.<\/strong><\/div>\n
The association was set up in 1910<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Loyal and strong: Sungai Lembing Hainan Association chairman Datuk Dr Sunny Chan (in coat) with members at the entrance to the Thean Hou Temple.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Mazu, also known as the Chinese Sea Goddess, is believed to provide divine<\/div>\n
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intervention for seafarers especially fishermen.<\/div>\n
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The Goddess is widely worshipped by Chinese in Asia, especially those living in coastal areas.<\/div>\n
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Dr Chan harbours hope the towering Mazu statue will\u00a0 attract more tourists and help revive the economy.<\/div>\n
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About 3,000 tourists thronged Sungai Lembing over\u00a0 weekends prior to the covid-19 pandemic.<\/div>\n
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Another beautiful day : Watching sunrise in Sungai Lembing known for its natural beauty<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Old world charm: the little commercial square next to Sungai Lembing Village<\/strong><\/div>\n
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One for the album: Tourists flocked to Sungai Lembing over weekends.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Dr Chan who grew up in Sungai Lembing\u00a0 says the little mining town was home to his forefathers from China who set foot in then Malaya.<\/div>\n
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The 60-year-old businessman says he witnessed the heyday of Sungai Lembing which last till the world tin market crash in the mid 1980s.<\/div>\n
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According to him, Sungai Lembing, a thriving mining town since the 18th century, had turned into a ghost town after the crash.<\/div>\n
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After almost two decades it staged a comeback with\u00a0 eco tourism and\u00a0 its rich historical background as selling\u00a0 points.<\/div>\n
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According to Dr Chan, Sungai Lembing was once the longest and deepest underground mining point in the world.<\/div>\n
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Topping the list of must visit places in Sungai Lembing are the \u00a0Rainbow Waterfall,Thean Hou Temple and Sungai Lembing Museum.<\/div>\n
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International wonder : The Rainbow Waterfall in Sungai Lembing drawing tourists from all over the world<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Unfortunately, Sungai Lembing is prone to big floods at least once a year.<\/div>\n
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Under the coordination of the association, villagers will come out in full force to clean up the area.<\/div>\n
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Dr Chan who is chairman of the association since 2017 , also heads the post -disaster reconstruction committee after a big fire in the village end of 2021, says he has his hands full in rebuilding the village.<\/div>\n
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He is confident the 112-year-old\u00a0 association together with the villagers will be able to overcome any challenges life throws at them, and they have proven it time and again.<\/div>\n
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Compassion : Mazu also known as Chinese Sea Goddess By Foong Pek Yee foongpekyee@gmail.com The tallest Mazu statue in Malaysia is in Sungai Lembing Village. Measuring 3.65 meter\u00d7 3.65 meter and 8.07 meter in height, it is housed in the\u00a0 Sungai Lembing Hainan Association’s Thean Hou Temple ” Mazu is an integral part of Hainan … Continue reading “Small village with a big story”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[258,257,256,162,255,259,171],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places","tag-chinese-sea-goddess","tag-hainan","tag-mazu","tag-rainbow-waterfall","tag-sungai-lembing-village","tag-thean-hou-temple","tag-tourism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3131,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}