战前新加坡同济医院旧体诗人群像考

On the Classical Chinese Poets in the Pre-War Singapore Thong Chai Medical Institution

战前新加坡同济医院的医师皆为医术精湛、工诗能文的儒医,是早期新加坡士人群体的重要组成部分。其中,黎伯概、胡幼汀、梁如山和颜怡园四位医师还是邱菽园创办之星洲檀社的成员,除雅集酬唱之作外,也创作其他类型的诗作;颜凤岐与梁少山两位的诗作关注祖国时政,以诗纪史。这些儒医在与其他行业诗人的交流中拓展了新加坡早期华人族群的文化空间,其诗作也为新加坡旧体文学的发展增添了浓墨重彩的一笔。

Most of traditional Chinese medicine （TCM） practitioners in the Singapore Thong Chai Medical Institution before 1941 were both well-skilled in therapy and proficient at poetry writing, who were an important part of literati group in early Singapore. A- mong them, Li Bogai, Hu Youting, Liang Rushan and Yan Yiyuan, who were four members of Singapore Tan Club founded by Qiu Shuyuan, were good at different style of writing, apart from the responsorial and presenting poems. Yan Fengqi and Liang Shaoshan were concerned about the current affairs of the motherland, and used their poems to record history. These Confucian TCM practitioners expanded the cultural space of the early Chinese ethnic groups in Singapore during the period of communications with other professional poets. Therefore, their poems played an indispensable role in the history of classical Chinese poetry in Singapore.