Inscriptions List

“Gold in hand” couplet board
“Kwun Yam Den” altar censer
“Southern sky” couplet board
“Yeung Fook Tong” entrance adornment
Altar table dated 1866
Candlesticks
Carved scene with three sheep
Cymbal
Donation plaque dated 1866
Fortune-paper printing blocks
Incense crate
Interior photograph of the last Rocky River temple
Mannequin stand
Multicolour-printed incense stick packaging
Names plaque dated 1866
Old newspaper articles that concern the Emmaville temple
Photographs of the Emmaville temple’s façade and interior
Prescription printing block
Processional placards
Processional staff 1
Processional staff 2
Red-printed incense stick packaging
Right long couplet board
Sudhana Kumāra plaque
Temple bell – St Andrew’s Church, Tingha
Temple bell dated 1883–4
Temple drum stand
Tingha Yee Hing Society stamp
Yee Hing Society name plaque

About Us

Our Chinese Past Inc was formed in 2020 by a group of historians and genealogists – Juanita Kwok, Paul Macgregor, Gill Oxley, Malcolm Oakes and Kira Brown. We are a not-for-profit organisation which aims to conduct projects to support local museums in preserving, researching and promoting Chinese Australian heritage artefacts in their collections

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We acknowledge and respect the traditional custodians of the lands where the temples once stood. We acknowledge the deep feelings of attachment and relationship of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to country. We acknowledge the Anaiwan, Bigambul, Gamilaraay, Jukambal, Kwiagambal, Ngoorabul, Nucoorilma and Wirrayaraay peoples. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.