Story 6 Blessing through Generations
Story 6 Blessing through Generations “The seeds of kind heart were sowed by ancestors, the prosper land is ploughed by the descendants.” This couplet has been ironed deeply in my brain since I read it on the A5 -size wooden plague at the Lui family altar in the Jalan Ma’mor terrace house. It’s my home from 1975 to 2012 in Singapore, but it’s the residence of my parents and siblings from 1963 to 1988. Throughout several decades of journeying with them and relatives in Hong Kong and Vancouver B.C,, I would like to proclaim there were lots of blessing through 6 generations counting from my grandparents to eldest brother Pao Chuen’s great grandchildren. More than a century ago my paternal grandfather Lui Yao Yun run a successful business in silk and textile, named Yue Tai Cheung, which had shops in Canton, Macau, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. When my parents and siblings migrated to Singapore in 1950, they were blessed with a dwelling place in Qi ...