星洲三都霞陽楊氏植德堂

Sit Teik Tong (Gongsi) in Singapore

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植德堂是霞陽楊氏的宗亲组织，在海外，槟城植德堂和仰光植德堂分别创建于1834年和1854年，至今仍然活跃。据说菲律宾也曾有一个海外植德堂，但一直不得任何字迹可循。不过，廿世纪三十年代开始大约二十年间，新加坡的确出现过植德堂。

父亲说他1935年单身来新加坡，最初棲宿之所就是星洲（新加坡）植德堂，有相片留念，但相片无文字辨识。

从报章、文史刊物和私人收藏的中英文资料，可以略知当时一些职责人物、相关活动和活动地点。

  1. 1931年11月： 社团注册通知，社团全名为“星洲三都霞陽楊氏植德堂”
  2. 1931年12月： 征集会员，聚会地点 188 直落亚逸街 （华人俗称源顺街）
  3. 1932年 1月12日： 接待槟城植德堂楊章安，留念照片里有楊明德(1888-1959) 、楊添壽(1904 – 2000)、和楊昭標(1901-1980)
  4. 1933年 8月 8日： 会员大会，聚会地点 188 直落亚逸街
  5. 1934年 7月29日： 会员大会，聚会地点 178 直落亚逸街
  6. 1935年 7月18日： 会员大会，聚会地点 178 直落亚逸街
  7. 1940年 1月： 参加爱国捐捐献
  8. 1949年 6/7月： 通知召开周年大会聚餐，大会主席楊明德、记录楊昭標； 报名地点三处：（1）63 Arab Street，（2）295 Jalan Besar, （3）12 China Street 南兴号。其中 （1） 为楊明德公司所在，（2）为楊明德住家。
  9. 1956年 10月： 豁免注册
  10. 1932年出版的《新加坡指南》： 第五编198页里，星洲三都霞陽楊氏植德堂记载着的地址是一百八十八号直落亚逸街。
  11. 《南洋名人集传》： 楊昭標简史里提起他除了是漳州十属会馆（漳州总会前称）董事外，亦为楊氏植德堂司理。
  12. 楊添壽在他1988年为槟城霞陽楊氏植德堂写的族谱书里，透露他在1931年和一小群宗亲创办星洲植德堂，到了战后1945年因为霞陽楊氏人数太少而无法重立。1

如上所述，霞陽楊氏植德堂存在于新加坡至多仅有十几年，一直似乎也无固定的会所。其实上世纪三十至五十年代，战争、政乱、社变导致的本就数寡的霞陽楊氏人心涣散，有心的宗亲最终扭转不了星洲植德堂的宿命。

然而，在他初处异地的孤独时日，有机会在星洲植德堂短促生命里蒙受霞陽祖先的庇蔭，父亲是有福的。

Sit Teik Tong is the name given to the Gongsi, or the clan association of Xiayang Yeo’s. Penang Yeoh K(G)ongsi and Yangon Yeo Gongsi were separately founded in 1834 and 1854. Both of them have beautiful Gongsi buildings and both are still in these two places serving and caring for Yeo descendants from Xiyang in Fujian, China. Was there a Yeo Gongsi in Singapore too?

Old newspapers, archived official documents, some organisation publications and a few personal memorabilia outline together a very brief presence of Yeo Gongsi in Singapore.

In 1931, a Singapore Yeo Gongsi was registered as Sam Tor Har Yang (Yeo See) Sit Teck Tong. In January 1932, Yeo Cheang Ann from Penang Kongsi visited Singapore Gongsi and took a photo together. Identified from the photo were Yeo Beng Teck(1888-1959) 、Yeo Tiam Siew(1904 – 2000)、and Yeo Cheow Hpyeow (1901-1980).  Annual General Meetings were held from 1933-1935. After that no reports were made for many years except about a humble donation given to a Patriotic Fund in 1940. Then in June and July, 1949, there were public calls, over different days on several newspaper advertisements, inviting clan members from Har Yang (Xiayang) for an anniversary meeting . Names of Yeo Beng Teck and Yeo Cheow Hypyeow appeared in these calls.

Separately, Yeo Tiam Siew in his personal memoir, , published in 1993, wrote that the Singapore Gongsi was started with a handful of members in Singapore in August 1931. He also lamented that the Gongsi “could not be resuscitated after World War II in September 1945”, principally because of the small number of ‘YEOs’ of the Har-Yang Village in Singapore at that time.

Thus, the Yeo Gongsi, or, Sam Tor Har Yang (Yeo See) Sit Teck Tong, survived not more than 20 years. A newspaper report in 1956 on society registration actually announced that, Sam Tor Har Yang (Yeo See) Sit Teck Tong, had been ‘exempted from registration’.

A few addresses were revealed: 178, 188 Telok Ayer Street, 12 China Street, 63 Arab Street and 295 Jalan Besar, the last two being office and residence addresses of Yeo Beng Teck.

However, no definite, more permanent official addresses could be ascertained for the short-lived Singapore Yeo Gongsi.

1935年的某段日子，父亲楊章煌曾在星洲植德堂屋内，曲膝角隅刮胡髭。

父亲爱帅，陋室中也不忘保持清爽光鲜。

Our father, Yeo Cheang Hong, on his own at his first arrival, in 1935 in Singapore from Xiayang, had to take his shared accommodation in this Yeo Gongsi. He was seen in the last photo here, apparently in a tight corner, and not exactly in a comfortable position, shaving. It was lucky for him to register his short but memorable presence in this community hall endowed with ancestral blessings.