What beverages do "Tak Giu" and "Diao Yu" refer to? Who were the Samsui Women? Why do Chinese Singaporean families gather to toss yusheng every Lunar New Year? How and why did their ancestors migrate to Singapore in the first place?
Discover all that and more through ten fun and educational storybooks, written and illustrated by Ngee Ann Polytechnic's Chinese Studies students with guidance from award-winning children's book illustrator Lee Kow Fong! Complete with activity guides and downloadable learning resources for educators, this series is a must-have for any child's cultural education.
Filled with insights from the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre's exhibition, this exciting bilingual series is the perfect introduction to local Chinese history, customs, values, and dishes!
Let's Lohei is the tenth book in the SINGAPO: Discovering Chinese Singaporean Culture series. It tells an interesting story about a well-off family that gathered to lohei during Chinese New Year. According to Singaporean Chinese New Year customs, relatives and friends would gather to toss yusheng on the seventh day of the first lunar month. The young boy did not understand the tradition. He mistook the shredded vegetables for noodles and almost finished eating all the raw fish before the elders could participate in tossing the yusheng. Fortunately, the elders in the family patiently explained the tradition to the young boy and answered his questions. He finally understood the lohei tradition.