{"id":2432,"date":"2012-03-14T11:28:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T03:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2012-08-26T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T10:28:00","slug":"khoo-soek-wan-poet-scholar-revolutionary-romantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/2012\/khoo-soek-wan-poet-scholar-revolutionary-romantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Khoo Seok Wan – Poet, Scholar, Revolutionary, Romantic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Khoo Seok Wan \u90b1\u83fd\u56ed 1874-1941\u00a0 ( photo: archives)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u51e0\u679a\u767d\u77f3\u4f34\u9752\u73c9,<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u5c0f\u7b51\u575f\u83b9\u9694\u5c81\u6625<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u5730\u4e0b\u6709\u7075\u76f8\u8c05\u89e3,<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u8fdf\u5de5\u539f\u662f\u4e3a\u5bb6\u8d2b.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A few pieces of white rock accompany the green stone,<\/strong><\/p>\n

A little grave built but alas late one year<\/strong><\/p>\n

My dear I hope you can understand the reason,<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am late to build because of my poverty.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Khoo Seok Wan (1874-1941) in memory of his wife, Lu Jie (\u9646\u7ed3)
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He was a Confucian scholar, a political activist in revolutionary China, a prominent community leader in Singapore and an early advocate for education for girls\u00a0 who helped set up the Singapore Chinese Girls School.<\/p>\n

Born into a wealthy merchant family, Khoo’s\u00a0 fortunes waxed and waned because of his extravagant life style ( he was known to be a generous host) and the over extension of his funding activities to revolutionary\u00a0 causes. But embedded in his life is a love story which captured the heart of Bukit Brown resident tomb whisperer Raymond Goh; he was determined to find his grave.<\/p>\n

When Khoo Seok Wan\u2019s wife died in 1936 at the age of 44, his fortunes were on the wane and he was bankrupted. He could not afford a tombstone for his wife whom he buried in Bukit Brown. So he buried his own tooth with her and when he could afford it the next year also constructed his own tombstone in preparation to be reunited her one day. The poem was penned to\u00a0 mark the occasion.<\/p>\n

Khoo was born in Fujian, China, and followed his mother to Macau before he joined his father in Singapore in 1881. His father, Khoo Cheng Tiong (\u90b1\u6b63\u5fe0), was a successful rice merchant and prominent community leader in Singapore. Khoo was schooled in traditional Confucian education, and when he was 15 years old, he went back to his hometown to prepare for the Chinese imperial examinations. He passed the district and provincial examinations to attain the level of a juren (\u4e3e\u4eba) that qualified him as a candidate for the central government imperial examinations in Beijing, but he failed in that attempt in 1895 and returned to Singapore.<\/p>\n

Khoo suffered from leprosy and lived his last years on the generosity of his friends. He died in Singapore at the age of 68 on 1 December 1941.<\/p>\n

He was buried in Bukit Brown cemetery beside his wife. \u00a0Earlier this year, Raymond Goh finally tracked down the tombstone Khoo built for himself and his wife from records in the Burial Register lodged with the National Archives.<\/a> Khoo Seok Wan\u2019s tomb is in Blk 4 Section C,\u00a0 is in the path of new dual 4 lane road.<\/p>\n

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Khoo Seok Wan “live” tomb, inscribed on the altar is his\u00a0 epithet which he penned himself\u00a0 (photo:Raymond Goh)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Khoo Seok Wan’s self written\u00a0epitaph (photo Raymond Goh)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u6d77\u5c71\u7121\u5730\u7bc9\u4ed9\u9f9b<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

There is no space in the seas and hills to build my abode<\/strong><\/div>\n
\u57cb\u9aa8\u7336\u80fd\u8e8d\u528d\u6f6d<\/strong>
\n… How can the buried bones leap across the sword lake<\/strong><\/div>\n

\u65e5\u4e0b\u4e09\u5fb5\u7d42\u4e0d\u8d77<\/strong>
\nEven if you beckon 3 times, I could no longer arise<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u661f\u6d32\u4e00\u81e5\u5fcd\u9577\u9163<\/strong>
\nThat lay in Singapore enduring long thirst<\/strong><\/div>\n
\u98db\u82b1\u604d\u609f\u524d\u8eab\u8776<\/strong>
\nFlying flowers realized their butterfly past life<\/strong><\/div>\n
\u64ab\u78a3\u601d\u505c\u7570\u4ee3\u9a42<\/strong>
\nCaressing the epigraph, thoughts stop and future generations <\/strong><\/div>\n
prepare the chariot<\/strong><\/div>\n
\u5f17\u4fe1\u4e14\u770b\u58b3\u8349\u53ba<\/span><\/strong>
\nIf you don’t believe just look at the tomb grass<\/strong><\/div>\n
\u5e74\u5e74\u65b0\u7da0\u5230\u5929\u5357<\/strong><\/div>\n
Yearly they come back with new greenness<\/strong><\/div>\n
\u516b\u516b\u8001\u4eba\u83fd\u5712<\/strong>
\n88 old man Seok Wan<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Khoo’s wife tomb among the Group 9 cluster on map<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ode to Khoo Seok Wan<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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My Great Great Grand Father’s Tomb!
\nI stand before him, silent, in respect and awe.
\nHis genes embedded in every cell of mine
\nWe are bonded though the course of time.<\/div>\n
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My Great Great Grand Father’s Tomb!
\nA white stake declares a foreboding future
\nHis eyeless sockets shedding copious tears
\nThat eight lane highway: unspoken fears<\/div>\n
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My Great Great Grand Father’s Tomb!
\n“Could you not ask them to let us rest in peace”
\nHis silenced tongue in eloquence loudly says
\nHis bony hands grasp me in one last fond embrace.<\/div>\n

by Lim Su Min \u6797\u8607\u6c11<\/a> in tribute.<\/p>\n

The prolific Khoo is responsible for composing epithets for luminaries buried at Bukit Brown. Among them the father of Khoo Teck Puat<\/a>, Khoo Yang Thin. His epithet is an exhortation to the descendents through a list of things to do to live a good, honest and honorable\u00a0 life.<\/p>\n

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Discernible beneath the grime there is true grit Khoo Yang Thin’s grave can be found in group 12 on the map (photo Perry Tan)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Another example is the epithet for\u00a0Wee Teck Seng’s tomb (just below Gan Eng Seng):<\/p>\n

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(Photo: Raymond Goh)<\/p><\/div>\n

Khoo Seok Wan was also responsible for popularizing the term Sin Chew\u00a0 which is a sobriquet for “Singapore”\u00a0 (translated) Khoo\u00a0 writes:\u00a0 Singapore is an island surrounded by the sea, and with vessels and boats large and small anchored around it; the glitter of artificial lights at night are like a crown of illuminated stars (“\u661f”) when viewed from afar. “\u6d32” (zhou, island) and “\u821f” (zhou, boat) are homonyms: while the boat lights are like stars, those on the island are like the Big Dipper to accentuate the constellation. This is why the term “Sin Chew” is widely known by folks here and afar.<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: In the first posting of this article, Lim Su Min<\/a> our tea master,\u00a0 believed\u00a0 Khoo Seok Wan to be his great great grandfather based on initial evidence. Further investigation has shown this trail to be false. But in the spirit of paying tribute to Khoo Seok Wan the poet, we are leaving in this post the poem composed by Su Min.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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