时空变迁脉络下华人社团认同形态的建构与演化——新加坡广惠肇碧山亭研究

Social Change and the Construction and Evolution of Identity Formation in Chinese Clan Associations—A Study of Kwong Wai Siew Peck San Theng in Singapore

广惠肇碧山亭(以下简称碧山亭)由来自中国广东省的广州、惠州、肇庆三府移民于1871年创立于新加坡。在殖民地时代,碧山亭的基本功能是作为广、惠、肇三属坟山管理机构,处理三属先人的营葬、祭祀以及有关的事务。从创立至1973年新加坡政府发出封山令。

Kwong Wai Siew Peck San Theng was founded in 1871 by immigrants from Guangfu(Kwong),Huizhou(Wai),and Zhaoqing(Siew)in the immigrant era of Singapore.For nearly a century and a half since its founding,Peck San Theng has been a cemetery organization,handling funerals,ancestor offerings,and related matters for the Kwong Wai Siew.It is also the main organization of the Kwong Wai Siew community,and has an important function of integrating and cohering the three groups.This paper utilizes various Chinese clan association source materials to investigate the historical process of the construction and evolution of identity formation for the Kwong Wai Siew community and Peck San Theng cemetery,which was established based on“Cemetery Hill Worship”in Singapore from the colonial era to independence.It provides a valuable case study of how immigrant pioneers from the southern part of China,in the context of social change in Singapore over time,used traditional Chinese cultural practices inherited from their ancestral homeland to restructure their community and rebuild their home.