Can someone quote me the Merlion's tale? I heard it somewhere but don't really remember it. Basically is it about the 2 kids saw a merlion rise from the ocean?
If you guys read Doraemon comic, there's pretty logical story line about how a legend born. Normally there was nothing extraordinary, maybe just someone was short-sighted and thought what they saw is real, but it's not. For example a Merlion may be just a sea lion with some seaweeds (make it bigger and cooler), looked like mermaid (??!!!) with the lion head, so the kids were so scared then run away, thus the legend was born, and everyone sticked to it.
Merlion is a nice symbol for Singapore though.
Answer :
The merlion (Simplified Chinese: 鱼尾狮) is a statue with the head of a lion and the body of a fish. Its name comes from a portmanteau of mermaid and lion. The merlion was designed by Fraser Brunner for the Singapore Tourism Board in 1964 and was used as its logo up to 1997. The Merlion continues to be its trademark symbol. It also appears frequently in STB-approved souvenirs. The original Merlion statue stands at the opening of the Singapore River while a taller replica can be found on Sentosa Island.
According to the Singapore Tourism Board's publicity, the lion head and fish body of the creature recalls the story of the legendary Sang Nila Utama, who saw a lion while hunting on an island, en route to Malacca. The island eventually became the sea port of Temasek, a precursor to Singapore.
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