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SINGAPORE – The National Heritage Board (NHB) has apologised for an error made in a recent Facebook post about xinyao – the home-grown Mandarin music movement which was popular in the 1980s and 1990s.
The post introduced xinyao singers such as Billy Koh and Eric Moo and directed readers to heritage portal roots.sg to learn more about the movement.
But it was accompanied by pictures of 1960s records from before the xinyao movement and also featured inaccurate lyrics from xinyao pioneer and local musician Liang Wern Fook’s beloved creation Xi Shui Chang Liu (Friendship Forever) – which literally means “Small Stream That Flows Forever”.
The board was criticised by netizens for the blunder and the post has since been deleted.
In response to queries from The Straits Times, an NHB spokesman said: “The National Heritage Board apologises to Dr Liang Wern Fook and fans of xinyao for errors made earlier on our Facebook post featuring xinyao as an important part of Singapore’s intangible cultural heritage. We should have been more careful about this and have amended the post to correct the errors.”
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