The first Chinese miners were based on Malacca. They traveled as far as Sungai Ujong, Lukut and the mouth of Sungai Selangor. During the period of Yap Ah Loy, he built The Sz Yeh temple at Kuala Lumpur , on land behind the capitan house. This was named after the famous Capitan Shin
under whom Liu Ngim King and Himself had served in Sungai Ujong.
Capitan Shin was killed and beheaded, the blood that flowed out was white instead of red. Afterwars, Yap Ah Loy built the temple as to honor and worshiping him as a God. Till then, people that come to this temple were cured, worshiper were successful in business and there was a growing belief that the dead Capitan was now a powerful god.
to be continued..
prepared by Amir Fauzan
source: Journal Of The Malaysian Branch Royal Asiatic Society, Volume XXIV Part 2, July 1951, Yap Ah Loy by the late S.M. Middlebrook
photo taken at : National Library
This is an important research find. Well Done Amir! Important because the source is repectable and the date is pre Merdeka.. so it's British times. The continuation of this article or paper would be crucial for a critical understanding of the rational perception... rather than folklore... of the circumstances surrounding the temple. Already there's enough for a fictional narrative for your film. White Blood is definitely provocative.. no less because of its allusion to the death of Jesus of Nazareth when it was recorded that water gushed out from his body on being impaled by a Roman spear. And the miraculous claims following Shin's death - and the magnitude of its impact on people groups - is certainly the sort of socio historical data that makes interesting narrative. The building is the outcome of the architecture which is the outcome of the stakeholders'faith which is that narrative you've unearthed. So I think this post is pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteThis is an important research find. Well Done Amir! Important because the source is repectable and the date is pre Merdeka.. so it's British times. The continuation of this article or paper would be crucial for a critical understanding of the rational perception... rather than folklore... of the circumstances surrounding the temple. Already there's enough for a fictional narrative for your film. White Blood is definitely provocative.. no less because of its allusion to the death of Jesus of Nazareth when it was recorded that water gushed out from his body on being impaled by a Roman spear. And the miraculous claims following Shin's death - and the magnitude of its impact on people groups - is certainly the sort of socio historical data that makes interesting narrative. The building is the outcome of the architecture which is the outcome of the stakeholders'faith which is that narrative you've unearthed. So I think this post is pretty cool.
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