棺木展 Coffin Exhibition

从印尼回来后，我就决定要去参观国家博物馆所举办的棺木展。于是我约了亮璇,把日期定在27日5月。

Since I came back from Indonesia, I targerted to visit the coffin exhibition at National Museum. I invited Liang Sien to join me and fixed the date on the 27 May 2010.

入门处。 里头播着奇怪的音乐加上灯光效应和冷气，感觉阴森森的。当天不是假日所以很少游客。加上我俩大概只有5-6 人。断断续续的还有一些人，但也不多。当天我还被一位突然出现在我身边的马来女生吓到，心跳加速了不少！

The entrance. With the weird music, lighting effect and air-cond, the situation is a bit scary. The day is weekday so not much visitors. Including 2 of us, there were about 5-6 people at that time. Of course, there were still others visitor walk in and out from the exhibition. One incident happened to me. I was shocked by the sudden existence of a Malay female (in tudung) next to me when I taking photo. She made my heartbeat increase rapidly!

不同姿势的葬法。据历史记载，弯曲法常见于霹雳州和东马，这姿势比较容易让死去的灵魂到达天堂。图1：直躺。图2和3：弯曲

Different burial position. According to the info stated, the bend position would help the soul to reach Nirvana in a faster way. Pic 1: normal. Pic 2 and 3: bend.

不同的葬法。 图1：属土著Temiar的葬法。葬礼后会把死者的物品和住家焚烧。图2：Kuala Selinsing, Perak的船葬始于1500年前。图3和4：瓮葬多见于东马和Langkawi。图5和6：这葬法是把石片一个叠一个的直到形成一个坟墓。图7：Pahang's Bateq族的树葬，目的是远离动物袭击和减低尸臭味。 图8：土族Semai和Temiar的一种只用batik布或白布尸，草席和泥土的葬法。

Different burial traditions. Pic 1: Temiar Tribe burial. The belonging and house of the dead person will be burned after bury. Pic 2: Perak's Kuala Selinsing boat burial originated from 1500 years ago. Pic 3&4: Jar Burial most likely found in East Malaysia and langkawi. Pic 5&6: Stone slab burial. Placed stone slab one by one to form a grave. Pic 7: Pahang's Bateq Tribe burial. Built on the tree branches to avoid disturb by animal and prevent from the odour of decomposing body. Pic 8: Burial of Semai and Temiar tribe. Only use batik or white cloth to shrounded the body and wrapped into woven mat and interred in burial crevice at the bottom of the grave.

富有创意和文化色彩的棺木，不只是来自大马，还包括其他东南亚国家的展览品。图3 是 刻有四脚蜥蜴的小孩棺木。最后一张图所展示的棺木是个用了5位大师和其他工匠，共花了5年的时间和精神所完成的。 据说是受命于当时一位德高望重的领袖为他早逝的爱女所打造的。

Rich with the creative art and cultural sense. These coffins are not only from Malaysia but also from the other countries of South East Aisa. Pic 3 is a child coffin engraved with a lizard on top of the cover. The coffin showed in the last picture is a product from five skilled craftsmen with assistants. They used 5 years to complete this. The coffin is used for the daughter of a powerful Kayan chief as a commemoration for her death.

祭品。Sacrificial offering

富贵集团赞助。Sponsored by Nirvana company.

Other interesting display~~

Pic 1: A chair coffin to place the corpse of VIP in a respective way to decompose and dry until skeleton remain.The bones were then placed into a jar as a final resting place. Pic 2: coffin from Thailand