Interview Chanin Sakarin • City Pillar Shrine Songkhla • ศาลเจ้าพ่อหลักเมือง • THAILAND • สงขลา
Mr. Chanin Sakarin from the Songkhla Hokkien Association tells the history of Songkhla's City Pillar Shrine.
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“Yes, they were from Fuijan provence. They made Songkhla their new home and brought their traditions with them.”
“When you migrate to another land, you’ll have many adventures and things you have to deal with. I think the gods can support you and give you spirit to fight,” says Mr. Sakarin.
“He wanted to make Songkhla a stronghold for the government in the southern part of China.”
“In Thailand we have a tradition that when you built a new house, you put the first column in the ground.”
“Here is the Chinese and the next road over is Muslim, and another is Thai. We are in a very tolerant society that we can accept differences in beliefs,” says Mr. Sakarin.
How China Invaded Songkhla • City Pillar Shrine • สงขลา • THAILAND • ศาลเจ้าพ่อหลักเมือง
At first glance, you might think you’re in China. Walking through town, you see numerous Chinese signs in the streets, papers lanterns and even steamed bao buns. But this is Songkhla, one of the oldest cities in Thailand.
How did the Chinese get here in the first place and why didn’t the Thai King just kick them out?
200 years ago, the Chinese were starving because of war and famine. Many of them left and migrated to towns all around the world. A few came to southern Thailand and landed in Songkhla, then just a small port city on the Gulf of Siam. One of those first immigrants was the great-great grandfather of Mr. Chanin Sakarin. Today, he’s the Vice President of Songkhla’s Hokkien Society.
“Yes, they were from Fuijan provence. They made Songkhla their new home and brought their traditions with them.”
The Chinese who came to Songkhla didn’t get any kind of financial support from the Thai King. But they were hard workers and when they had saved their money – they built shrines to house their gods.
“When you migrate to another land, you’ll have many adventures and things you have to deal with. I think the gods can support you and give you spirit to fight,” says Mr. Sakarin.
As Songkhla grew, King Rama III back in Bangkok took notice of the Chinese who had crashed his kingdom. Of course he could have just sent his army kicked these immigrants out. Instead, however, the King did something very clever. He raised them up. He elevated Songkhla from a village to an official Thai city and built the residents a grand city wall.
“He wanted to make Songkhla a stronghold for the government in the southern part of China.”
To prove to the Chinese that they were now an official part of his Kingdom, Rama III sent a royal gift. It’s called a city pillar. Similar to cornerstones found in American architecture or city gates in Europe, a city pillar marks the symbolic foundation of towns in Thailand.
“In Thailand we have a tradition that when you built a new house, you put the first column in the ground.”
Throughout Thailand, city pillars were set up in Buddhist buildings, because the King and the Thais were Buddhists. In Songkhla, however, the King allowed the Chinese to put their city pillar in their shrine alongside to their Chinese gods. It was a symbolic statement. In doing this, the King was saying that although these Chinese had come to Thailand without permission and had a different religion – they were still a welcome part of his kingdom.
Since then, the city throws a big party once a year at the City Pillar Shrine, as it’s known today. Songkhla has also prospered. It’s one of the wealthiest cities in all of Thailand.
“Here is the Chinese and the next road over is Muslim, and another is Thai. We are in a very tolerant society that we can accept differences in beliefs,” says Mr. Sakarin.
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Songkhla Oldtown by Preeyada
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Missed Connections • Songkhla’s Historical Train Station • รถไฟ สงขลา
The last man (Viang Rodpon) to work on steam trains tells the story of Songkhla's historical train station in southern Thailand.
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The train was running before I was born. Songkhla’s station was built because all the goods arrived by sea not overland. Everything came by ship. Everything came by boat. At the harbor, the rails connected to the dock. There was an iron wharf, and the goods were loaded there onto the train. The rails connected the dock to the station.
I came here with my parents. They came here to work at the train station. I was 14 or 15. I knew steam trains. They were noisy, yes and blew lots of smoke. When the train was departing they blew the horn so everyone would know that the train had left. After the train departed I sold coffee. The train went ‘choo choo’.
When I turned 21 my dad retired So I took over my dad’s job. I fixed the rails from Songkhla to Hat Yai so the train wouldn’t fall over.
The government said they’d stop the train in 2521. On the 1st of June. On the last day people came. Some people cursed. Some cried. Old people they’d used the train all their lives.
Songkhla Historical Park (With Prof)
Welcome to songkhla.
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VTR SONGKHLA FIRST CHINA TOWN
วันศุกร์ที่ 26 พฤษภาคม 2560 หอการค้าจังหวัดสงขลา จัดงานสถาปนาคณะกรรมการหอการค้าจังหวัดสงขลา ปีบริหาร 2560 - 2561 สมัยที่ 17 โดย ดร.วิษณุ เครืองาม รองนายกรัฐมนตรี เป็นประธานในพิธีและกล่าวปาฐกถาพิเศษ หัวข้อ สงขลาเมืองเก่า มรดกไทยและมรดกโลก (Songkhla First China Town ชุมชนชาวจีนแห่งแรก) ณ ห้องแกรนด์บอลรูม โรงแรมลีการ์เดนส์ พลาซ่า อำหาดใหญ่ จังหวัดสงขลา
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Interview Muslim Poet Rossanee Nufarida • THAILAND • สงขลา โรสนี นูรฟารีดา
A Muslim poet from Thailand discusses her book of poetry, a finalist for the SEA Writers Award in 2016.
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My name is Rossanee Nufarida. This is my pen name. I live in Hat Yai, Songkhla, in southern Thailand. I love to call myself a storyteller, because I like to share what I see, what I feel, what I think.
Q: Why is your real name different than your pen name?
My real name is Rossanee Kaesaman. Kaesaman is my family name. Do you want to know the real story? The truth is that, when you say I’m from this family, they will know where your hometown is, who is your father, who is your mother. So I want to protect my family. My dad saw the cover and asked me, ‘why are you this name’?
Everyday when I go out from my home, I wear this scarf. We call it a hijab. I want to show that Muslims can do everything. When I wear hijab and I work, people are amazed when I interview them They say you are a journalist in hijab. In Thai society, Muslims are like second-grade people. Islam is not a bad thing for this land or this country.
I don’t know what the problem is between the religions or different way of thinking, but finally I found that they don’t understand why. Why we have to do this. Why we can’t do something.
(There were) three things in that poem on my mind. The world situation, the refugees like the Rohingya, or another group that has to move. The second is the Thai political situation. The third is, sometimes I feel lost in my own home town. I go somewhere I know. I stand together with others, but I still feel lonely.
Q: You were a finalist for the 2016 SEA Award. Congratulations!
The old Thai poem style, they have a rhythm. They have strict syllables. My style is free verse. There aren’t syllables or rhythms.
Renovation of Songkhla Old Town