The Teochew Store Blog 潮舖博文

Pre-Christmas Sale! Till 31st December 2024

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The 5th "Teochew Language Challenge" (来拚潮州话啦!)

The 5th "Teochew Language Challenge" (来拚潮州话啦!), jointly organised by Chui Huay Lim Club (醉花林俱乐部) and Singapore Teochew Heritage Society (潮州文史学会) is here!

The preliminary round will take place through Zoom on 16 November 2024. The final will be on 23 November 2024.

Attractive prizes to be won. Closing date for registration is on 10 November 2024 😼
Details in the poster below:
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The Fairy Serpent - a Teochew folklore given new life

Folklores have always been important in helping to preserve and transmit the identity and values of cultures.

The Fairy Serpent is a Teochew variant of “Beauty and the Beast”. It tells about the life of a girl whose virtues not only saved her father from evil but also transformed the serpent she was forced to marry into a kind-hearted man.

Originally collected in Adele Fielde’s Chinese Nights’ Entertainment (download for free here), this ageless story has been beautifully retold in a book by Huang Lei, a Teochew illustrator from Singapore.

You may read The Fairy Serpent in English from this link.

Or watch it in Teochew (with English or Chinese subtitles):

English subtitles

带有中文字幕

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Mid-Autumn Festival Celebrations at the Singapore Teo Ann Huay Kuan 潮安會館

Mid-Autumn Festival Celebrations at the Singapore Teo Ann Huay Kuan 潮安會館. A night when families and traditions came alive for the young and the not-so-old ❤️❤️

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Memories of Old Swatow: Images from Catholic Mission (c.1910-1940s)

From the Terence Tan postcard collection.

More old postcards of early 20th century Teochew are available in Memories of Old Swatow 汕頭舊影.

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