Khaw Soo Cheang was my great great great grandfather. I did not know his history or how great and influential he was until I paid a visit to Ranong myself with my family members in year 2004. It was the event where we send his 'san zu pai' back to Ranong as part of his will.The statue behind us is him. In fact, I saw people offering flowers at his statue which I found it weird. This sight usually happen when offering to deity or god (as far as I am concern-lah). Anyway, it is something to be proud off.
Next photo is his tomb. It is located on a higher land. I will not call it a hill because it looks more like a high land than hill but a very big piece of land for a tomb. Along the way to the tomb, there are animals sculptures (not that 2 tiny little animals on my left). Those sculptures are stone carving (maybe served as some kind of protection in Chinese cultures). Whenever the locals pass by the tomb, they will honk. My dad said that is the locals way of showing their respect to him. That was new to me at that time.
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ReplyDeleteseems like your great great grand pa is really someone!!! :-)
it's nice to find out our own family histories
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ReplyDeleteIt was definitely interesting to find out about the contribution your great, great, great grandpa ( my great, great grandpa ) had made to Thailand. I first read about him from the book that was released in the early 1990s.
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