[Moving House Reflection] Tse Pui Yi

Not only do we want a good house when we alive, but we also want to stay in a good place after we die. Although government need the piece of land where buried their ancestor before, they still pay huge effort to dig out their ancestor to provide them a new stable and peaceful place to live. This impress me a lot that a pleasant living place after died also improtant. 3036231253 Tse Pui Yi

[Moving House Reflection] Lai Wing Tung

To be honest, it is a very shocking action for me when they just dig out the bones from the soil and break the tombstone, It is actually not a good act in my impression. However, not only we need to have a good place for living when we are alive, in our tradition, we also care a lot about our life after we dead, it may be a good action when including this. 3036231370 Lai Wing Tung

“moving house” reflection

the reaction to the timing of the thunderstorm coinciding with the relocation of the ancestral burial being uncertainty in whether it was a good or bad omen, in my opinion was metaphorical for the housing market of Singapore. Relocation meant that the housing market was increasing in demand, which meant that some would profit and some would despair. Hau Tsuen Adrian Yung-3036002066

In-class exercise-Moving house

Rapid development in modern city where is destiny populated like Singapore requires some traditional heritages make way for it, even for the grave culture, which is widely respected among Chinese people, is affected. Generations in different age groups cannot fully understand the meaning of those traditions while among traditional Chinese culture, grave moving is very rare and has special meaning.

Moving House Reflection

Chan Long Hei 3036220137 The contrasting attitudes of the family catches my attention. Sometimes they pay serious respect to the dead, eg following the Daoist traditions, getting a priest, shielding the dead from the sun, but sometimes they do actions that may be deemed disrespectful, such as making fun of the bones and smashing the tombstone and the coffin. Another interesting point is that eventually the dead gets an “apartment” too, just like the living would receive from public housing using the land freed from the tomb.

“Moving House” reflection

The development of small cities like Singapore brings prosperity, meanwhile forcing residences, even dead people who have been buried, to keeping moving from one place to another, which is quite lamentable but helpless. I am quite shocked that they deconstruct their ancestral tombs, which is considered to be very offensive in Chinese tradition, but concepts might evolve with development…

Moving House Reflection

For the Chinese, both the residence of the living ones and the burial of departed relatives and friends are extraordinarily important and have the requirement and hope for long-lasting stability. But when the compulsory expansion of living and the preservation of the grave conflict with each other, the helplessness of the living and the dead is so similar. The guardianship of loved ones and and the effort to protect estates from demolitions have the same willingness and powerlessness to protect their privacy and feelings.

Moving House Reflection

Increasing prosperity makes Singaporean search for bigger houses, not only for alive people, but also for dead people. The film shows some burial customs and a family moved the graves to a new place, to join the new modern architecture style, which makes me feel sad and unable to think about better solutions.

Wang Zhiyu – Moving House reflection

Wang Zhiyu’s film titled ‘Moving House’ illuminates the price of rapid urbanization and modernization in Singapore. It also talks about previous traditions that are still kept in place like tomb sweeping. Being a non-chinese student, I find it very interesting and a bit unsettling regarding this tradition but nonetheless an insightful view into Asian culture.