LIM Nang Seng @ Lim Nam Seng 林南生@林浪新
Chinese Dialect Groups,
Accession Number 000308
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 18
Total Reels
- Pitt Kuan Wah
Interviewer
- 08:26:44
Total Running Time
- Cantonese
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 18
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- 5 Jul 1984
Recording Date
- 00:28:13
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Family background. Born in Sarawak, moved to Guangzhou at age of three after mother's death. Family's upbringing. Bandits robbed his village frequently. Mealtimes; type of food he ate then. Table etiquette. General behaviour and attire. Different types of shoes worn then.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 18
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- 5 Jul 1984
Recording Date
- 00:28:18
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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How often he changed clothes. No bathrooms in village house, bathe in public baths. Number of times he bathe in summer and winter. Village sanitation. Night-soil used as crop fertilisers. Western doctor in his village. What he took when he had measles. Food he abstained from while having measles.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 18
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- 18 Jul 1984
Recording Date
- 00:29:17
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Popular among children in village to wear silver jewellery. Deities worshipped; shop-owners mostly worshipped God of Fortune. Employers provided feast for employees on first and fifteenth day of lunar month. Dieties worshipped at home. Operas staged during deity's birthday. Catholic Church in village. Common for villagers to abandon daughters. Facilities in Secondary School set up by Protestant Church better than Chinese school. Village ancestral hall. Offerings made for sending Kitchen God to Heaven.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 18
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- 18 Jul 1984
Recording Date
- 00:29:07
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Other festivals celebrated by family: weddings celebrations, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations. Special food for Chinese New Year. New Year's eve celebrations. Taboos on first day of Chinese New Year; custom of eating vegetarian food. Most villagers start work on fourth day; procession on fifteenth day of New Year. Raw fish taken at home during New Year.
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Reel/Disc 5 of 18
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- 2 Aug 1984
Recording Date
- 00:25:25
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Grandfather's love of painting and calligraphy. How grandfather passed away. Preparation of grandfather's funeral even before he died. Men at that time began to cut pig-tails and women stopped binding feet. Most rice merchants in village also sold wine. Custom of the aged to order coffins for themselves. Choice of wood for making coffin. Funeral custom - ritual of washing the deceased.
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Reel/Disc 6 of 18
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- 2 Aug 1984
Recording Date
- 00:24:11
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Things used during ritual of washing the deceased. Time when ritual should be performed. Custom of putting coin in deceased's mouth. Rice wine served during funeral wakes held by rich families. Taoist priests engaged to conduct funeral rites. Things used for conducting funeral rites. Deceased's family members not allowed to go visiting during Chinese New Year. Those who acted as pall-bearer's during funeral procession.
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Reel/Disc 7 of 18
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- 2 Aug 1984
Recording Date
- 00:30:11
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Funeral procession. Those joining funeral procession not allowed to wear gold jewellery. Females not supposed to join in procession. Those who joined procession must wash hands and face before entering own house. Mourning period of one hundred days. Installation of grandfather's ancestral tablet. Qing Ming festival. Cremation of the dead unpopular in village then.
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Reel/Disc 8 of 18
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- 23 Aug 1984
Recording Date
- 00:28:05
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Father passed away in Kluang. Step-mother's son in charge of father's funeral. Longevity clothings worn by deceased. Father's body put in casket before cremation. Buddhist monks engaged to conduct funeral rites. Differences between grandfather's and father's funeral wakes. Relatives and friends gave cash contributions to family and in return given red packets. Funeral procession.
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Reel/Disc 9 of 18
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- 23 Aug 1984
Recording Date
- 00:25:31
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Father's funeral expenses. He and wife taught in Segamat then. Children of his mother and step-mother not in good terms. Father remarried in Nanyang when he was five. His dissatisfaction with his younger brother. Inherited nothing from father. Shouldered heavy financial responsibilities when father passed away.
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Reel/Disc 10 of 18
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- 30 Aug 1984
Recording Date
- 00:28:15
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- MP3
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His marriage in 1941. How he got to know wife in Hong Kong. How they escaped Japanese air-raid in Hong Kong. Married in China. Taught at school in Guangzhou. His first child, a boy born in 1943; died in 1945 in Vietnam due to chicken-pox. Food his wife abstained and special food taken during confinement period.
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