霞陽楊氏人物小记

Xiayang Pioneer Note

楊昭固 / 楊奠安 / 楊子贞

Yeo Cheng Hai / Yeo Teow Seng / Yeo Seng Ngip

(1878 - 1926 )

本网站之主题人物

The Main Character of this website

晚清官衔：
花翎道衔加二级
民国官衔：
闽省实业司长
闽省总督府高等顾问

霞陽楊德卿宗第17世
楊本铭之次男
楊昭算、楊昭標等之兄
楊章周、楊章煌、楊章景等之父
元配：邱水娘

17th Generation from Xiayang YEO Teck Khin
Son of Yeo Poon Miah
Brother of Yeo Cheow Swan, Yeo Cheow Hpiow et al
Father of Yeo Kheamp Joo, Yeo Chiang Keng, Yeo Chiang Kee et al
Wife: Khoo Swee Neo

楊昭固十四岁隨父下洋经商，来往于梹城，新加坡，仰光等地。1898年在新加坡成立楊集茂公司，在厦门，缅甸及其他地方也有公司。1904年独资在家乡创办霞阳中西小学堂，学生除了学习中西文之外还受巡警训练。对学习好的学生还出资送出囯深造，为国家造就了一批人才。

1907年楊昭固在仰光接办中华学校，并投入巨资建设新楼。同年在仰光与楊逢年等发起成立缅甸中华商务总会。1909年任仰光建德总社二大董。1911年任华商务总会副会长，并于隔年出任会长。他也在1911年创建缅甸公报，该报在1913年攺组为觉民日报。楊昭固在1911年倡设缅甸华侨学务总会，并出任会长，期间领导缅甸华侨学校积极配合国内教育改革，除了校政管理，教材与设备改良，还积极开展运动会，展览会，鼓励校际互相观摩，良性竞争；培养当地师资，奖挹人才，推进承传做了大量工作。

1912年楊昭固在仰光发动组织成立国民捐总局，为赞助国家建设筹款。同年组织㔫岩路矿公司，擬集资八百万元，领办㔫岩至漳州的铁路。1912年11月奉诏入闽任职实业司，又获聘为都督府高等顾问。

楊昭固从事大米生意，兼做丝绸，日用品等，商务十分发达，同世界许多国家和地区均有往来，有称“大米大王”。1919年华侨学务总会改名侨教育总会。楊昭固以缅甸华侨教育总会的名义发起筹建缅甸华侨中学。并于两年后加入校董会。

1922年楊昭固出任仰光“楊府植德堂公司”正大董，1925年独资建成植德堂公司四层大楼，矗立于仰光海滨街四四八号，沿用至今。

1926年4月6日楊昭固病故仰光，享年48岁。

At the young age of 14, Yeo Cheow Kaw took to the sea with his father to run businesses at the ports of Singapore, Penang, Rangoon and other places. In 1898, he started his own company Yeo Chip Moh & Co. in Singapore. Other companies were also formed in Xiamen and Rangoon subsequently. In 1904, he founded in XiaYang an Anglo-Chinese school to teach English classes and conduct vocational training in police patrolling. He also sponsored good students for overseas studies.

In 1907, he took over a school, Teong Hwa Elementary school, in Rangoon， and invested his own money in the school building. In the same year, he founded the predecessor of the Burma Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and became its President in 1912. In 1911, he started a Chinese Educational Syndicate and served as President. The Syndicate ran activities for teachers and pupils to promote the modern school culture in parallel with what was developing in mainland China. In 1919, he called to build the Chinese High School and joined the school board in 1921. Over the years, he also established several Chinese Newspapers in Rangoon.

In 1912, he launched a donation campaign in Burma to raise funds to help the construction of China, at that time a new Republic. In December, he was invited to join the Board of Industrial Business in the Hokkien (Fujian) Government, and later also appointed as a Senior Consultant to the Office of Governor Sun Daoren.

Yeo Cheow Kaw was engaged in businesses of rice, silk and other daily necessities. He was once known as the Rice King. In 1922, he invested in the building of the Sit Teik Tong, for the XiaYang Yeo clan association in Rangoon. The 4-storey building opened on Strand Road in 1925, and remains in use today.

In 1926, the new Teong Hwa school buliding was completed. Even though all Burmese Chinese schools were closed in the 1960’s, the Teong Hwa school building still stays on 183 Lanmadaw and is listed in the Yangong City Heritage List even today.

Yeo Cheow Kaw died on April 6, 1926 at the age of 48 after a short illness.