Daily Photo #81 - Haw Par Villa: Viewer discretion advised
Sunday, March 25, 2012
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Went to Haw Par Villa (虎豹別墅) with J today. She needed it for a project, I just wanted to go and take a look because it's interesting and as it turns out, I've never been there before.
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| YOU SHALL PASS! |
Haw Par Villa, formerly called Tiger Balm Gardens, was originally constructed in 1937 by "Tiger Balm King" Aw Boon Haw as a grand residence for his younger brother, Aw Boon Par, who helped create their fortune with the anagesic balm. In English, Haw Par Villa translates as Villa of the Tiger and Leopard.
Aw Boon Haw then created an entertainment park to teach and preserve Chinese values. The park's colorful collection of over 1,000 statues and 150 giant tableaux centered around Chinese folklore, legends, history, and Confucian ideology. Morality tales included classic battles between good and evil and tributes to Chinese cultural heroes such as the famous pugilist Wu Song, who tamed a ferocious tiger with his bare hands.
A little fun fact, I actually like these kinda things! I took 234 pictures today, and I uploaded 67. So you're going to have a really fun time viewing all of these. If you're interested that is. Which I'm pretty sure you would be because I saw a few really interesting statues and stuff.
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| WHAT YOU LOOKING AT?! |
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| Listen to me, don't eat shit. Look at me, I'm serious. |
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| He's so lazy he has to rest his hands on bricks. |
STOP
From this point on wards, I would like to advise viewer discretion. Because we're going to venture into the depths of Chinese hell. Some pictures are pretty graphical, so you know, don't say I didn't warn you.
By the way, there are a bunch of pictures that I took because I thought it was just funny/interesting. Those will be obvious because I dosed them with instagram effects. Like the pig up there. There's 2 reasons for doing that,
1. I'm going to make a joke about it.
2. I got lazy editing.
LET'S GO!
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