Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Culture in Egypt/ Greek in Malaysia Part 2

Today, majority of our surrouding are influenced by other culture. Malaysia, is a place where it consist of multi-culture which it emerged with other culture.

For example,


A simple paper that we currently used in office, actually it derived from the papyrus, is a kind of plant that exist since the Egypt era and Mediterranean Sea. It work as a tool to document an amount of information and it also work as a media in drawing. Actually, it also show some similarity when we relate to our Malaysia Chinese Culture. For example,  in our Chinese Culture, there is a festival called Qingming Festival  or known as Tomb Swapping Festival which it a Chinese ritual which they burn the folded paper or known as 金纸 (Jing Zi) to their ancestor. There is several type of paper that is commonly used in the ritual. It is used as “money" for the ancestor. One of the particular characteristic of the paper is the colour. For example, the paper coated with gold colour is representing”Gold" and Silver coated Paper is represent a silver.
The figure show a Gold coated Paper and Silver coated Paper.

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