凝聚嘉应社群与维系广客帮群:新加坡嘉应五属义山研究
曾玲
摘要:在包括新加坡在内的东南亚,华人坟山遍布各华人社区。这些坟山及其管理机构在处理先人营葬事务的同时,也具有整合与凝聚华人社群的重要功能。新加坡嘉应五属义山是一座由嘉应五属社群总机构应和会馆设立与管理的华人坟山。嘉应五属在新加坡华人社会属客家方言群,同时与“广惠肇”“丰永大”两社群组成“广客帮”。本文运用金石碑铭、会议记录、章程、社团账本、纪念特刊等各类华人社会文献,在新加坡社会变迁的时空脉络下,考察与讨论应和会馆如何透过处理先人营葬祭祀的五属义山凝聚嘉应社群,并维系与广、客三社群所组成的“广客帮”之关系。
关键词:新加坡 应和会馆 嘉应五属义山
Uniting the Jiaying Community and Maintaining the Guang Hakka Bang: A Study of Jiaying WuShu Cemetery in Singapore
Zeng Ling
Abstract: In Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Chinese cemeteries are found throughout Chinese communities. These cemeteries and their administrators not only manage burials and ancestor worship, but also play an important role in integrating and uniting the Chinese community. Jiaying Wushu cemetery in Singapore is a Chinese cemetery established and managed by the Ying Fo Fui Kun, the healquarter of the Jiaying Wushu community. In the Chinese community in Singapore, Jiaying Wushu belongs to the Hakka dialect community, and together with two communities the "Guang Hui Zhao" and the "Feng Yong Da", they form the"Guang Hakka Bang". This paper utilizes stone inscriptions, meeting records, constitutions, account books, anniversary issues, and various other materials related to the Chinese community, in the context of social changes in Singapore over time, to investigate and discuss how the Ying Fo Fui Kun, through the handling of burials and ancestor worship at the Jiaying Wushu cemetery, functions to unite the Jiaying community and maintain relationships between the Jiaying community and the wider "Guang Hakka Bang
Keywords: Singapore; Ying Fo Fui Kun; Jiaying Wushu Cemetery