Tomb Culture | Bukit Brown

Tombs and tombstones have their own codes. Decipher them, and what you are looking comes alive with information… if not, they are just stones with funny squiggles on them…

Layout of tombs in Bukit Brown

The various parts of a tomb

The various types of tombs

Reading a Hokkien Tomb

Reading a Teochew tomb

Peranakan Tombs

Tombs and their guardian animals

Tomb Embellishments Felicitous Motifs

Tombs Guardians

Tomb embellishments - The Four Appointments

Tomb embellishments - The Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Tomb embellishments - The Four Loves

Tomb construction materials

Tomb constructions materials - bricks

There is burial, and then exhumation