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In the morning light of Singapore’s National Day, the red and white silk of the national flag spreads in the wind, just like the young country’s never-ending striving posture. And an orchid-shaped ceramic ashtray placed in the City Hall is telling the deeper national spirit in a unique language. This ashtray, designed by students from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, is made of broken porcelain pieces and reassembled into a dendrobium orchid, the national flower of Singapore. Each crack in the glaze solidifies the pain of the moment of breaking, but melts into a new vitality in the high-temperature kiln. Just like the five stars and moons on the national flag, it symbolizes ideals and implies cracks: the trauma of forced independence in 1965 eventually tempered the brilliant light of “Singapore”. The sunken ash slot design of the ashtray cleverly echoes the wisdom of national governance. As the municipal staff said when cleaning cigarette butts every day: “The container that extinguishes the spark is the fortress that protects purity.” This reminds people of the pure white background of the national flag. The properly placed embers are like the consciousness of the people to restrain their personal desires within the framework of public interests. When the morning light penetrates the glass of the City Hall, the projection of the national flag just covers the surface of the ashtray, and the broken pieces of porcelain reflect a rainbow-like spectrum. This is a metaphor for a truth: true integrity is never a flawless specimen, but a melting of countless incomplete individuals into a transcendent community. Every citizen is a spark of light, finding their own coordinates under the red and white flag, and then gathering into a star that never falls on the equator.

在新加坡國慶月的晨曦中，國旗紅白相間的綢緞隨風舒展，恰如這個年輕國家永不停歇的奮進姿態。而擺放在市政廳的一尊蘭花造型陶瓷煙灰缸，正以獨特的語言訴說著更深層的國民精神。這款由南洋藝術學院學生設計的煙灰缸，主體是破碎瓷片重組的石斛蘭－新加坡國花。每片瓷釉裂痕都凝固著摔碎瞬間的陣痛，卻在高溫窯爐中熔煉出嶄新的生命力。正如國旗上的五顆星月，既像徵理想，也暗含裂痕：1965年被迫獨立的創傷，最終淬煉出”星洲”的璀璨光芒。煙灰缸凹陷的容灰槽設計，巧妙呼應了國家治理智慧。正如市政人員每日清理煙蒂時所言：”熄滅星火的容器，恰是守護純淨的堡壘。”這讓人想起國旗的純白底色，那些被妥帖安置的餘燼，恰似國民將個人慾念收斂於公共利益框架內的自覺。當晨光穿透市政廳玻璃，國旗投影恰好籠罩在煙灰缸表面，破碎瓷片折射出彩虹般的光譜。這暗喻一個真理：真正的完整，從不是完美無瑕的標本，而是將無數殘缺個體熔鑄成超越性的共同體。每個公民都是星火微光，在紅白旗幟下找到自己的座標，便匯聚成赤道線上永不墜落的星辰。