28 March 2009

Few Hours Before Year 2060

Vihara Widhi Sakti (Klenteng Bie Hian Kong) is the oldest and greatest in Sukabumi built in 1912.

We came there, on Saturday 24th January 2009, few hours before celebration. As Imlek will be celebrated on night time, with Gie Say brotherhood (founded on 23rd day; 5th month in Chinese Lunar calendar, year 1952) with Beng Say perforemd on the street

(Gie can be translated as hero, honest, faith and Say is noble creature) Gie Say - Beng Say creature refers to relief Kang Co Han Tan Kong.

Beng Say had been 50 years old and legend said, it came from Chung Kuo

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pak Igor, salam kenal.
Sy dari Gie Say Sukabumi. kebetulan sy menjabat di seksi dokumentasi dan sejarah gie say sukabumi.
Ketika sehari sebelum imlek siang dan malamnya saya yg pegang handycam mendokumentasikan kegiatan imlek beserta permainan barong Gie Say malam nya.
Sy bisa menghubungi pak Igor di email mana yah? Email sy di Giesay@telkom.net. Thx