rubber estate
1.We must confess that for many years, we were not able to see the hidden meaning of the poem. Two years ago, we were rather intrigued by the line “茂林斧过尽为薪” (line 14) . Literally, it means: Lush forests, swept by the axe, completely transformed into firewood. We thought this was a very clever pun because firstly it means that a person without education is transformed through learning into someone useful, as befitting a university. Secondly, Nantah stood on land that was once covered by a rubber estate which had now been cleared to build the university. 
