熱烈歡迎美國余風采總堂
余習文元老伉儷
余以信美西總長伉儷
余永源伉儷
蒞臨參加本堂三月七日春宴助慶 大增光彩
斐匿余風采堂全體同人恭候
2015 Spring Festival Joys For
Phoenix Yees
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Laura
Lee (r-4), Phoenix
Queen with Grand Elder Damon
Yee (r-3) of SF
Grand Elder Henry Yee
(r-5) of Cleveland
Western Region Grand President
Alan Yi-Shun Yee
(l-4) of LA
USA HQ President
William Yu (r-1)
of SF
USA HQ Vice President
Eddie Yee (l-1) of
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Kimberly
Yee, Az State
Senator with Grand Elder Damon
Yee of SF
Grand Elder Henry Yee
of Cleveland Western Region
Grand President Alan
Yi-Shun Yee of LA
USA HQ President
William Yu of SF
USA HQ Vice President
Eddie Yee of SF |
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| Phoenix
YFT President, Cheak
Yee |
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National
and Phoenix YFT officers
toasting
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| National
entertainment— Zhigang
Chen –Chinese Mask
Changing |
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Phoenix
YFT Scholarship winners with
families
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(Photo courtesy of
John Tang)
The Year of the
Ram, 4713 in the cycle of the
Yellow Ruler (Huang Di – the
eponymous perhaps only tribal
leader of the people who would
become the Chinese), as calculated
by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen and promulgated
when he declared the Republic of
China to be established on January
1, 1912, was celebrated in
unusually grand style by the
Phoenix Yee Fung-toy Association.
In this Gregorian cycle, the
actual Yuan Dan (First Dawn – of
New Year’s Day itself) fell on
February 19th, 2015.
Saturday, March
7th in Phoenix was according to
the usual selection method – first
available weekend in March – for
our local observances. These began
at the Association Hall in
Phoenix, with the customary
ancestral veneration before a
supposed portrait of the Model
Ancestor: Yu Jing, hailed for his
‘elegant demeanor’ as Yu Fengcai
(in Cantonese, Yee Fung-toy) and,
after his death in 1064 C.E.,
ennobled by imperial decree as the
Loyal Assisting Duke – the
Zhongxiang Gong.
These veneration
rites, which do have their origins
during the Xia and Shang Dynasties
in the formative period of Chinese
culture and history (2070 to 1046
B.C.E.) when indeed the kings
worshiped their undoubtedly
powerful ancestors with not only
animal but also human sacrifices
(as excavation of royal tombs in
the area of modern An yang during
the 1920’s have demonstrated).
On this occasion,
as Association President M. Cheak
Yee / Yu Wen-chuo concludes a
second 1-year term of office, he
made available a further edition
of an essay on the Model Ancestor,
expanded to address more fully the
nature in more modern Chinese
culture (and history) of ancestral
veneration – which is the display
of honor/respect rather than
divine worship, in the hope that
all-too prevalent
misunderstandings can be
rectified. Filial piety has always
been a core in Confucian ethics,
and is the focus of the first of
the Ten Commandments relating to
human relations and conveying a
promise.*
The rites were
all the more special for the
attendance of out-of-town guests
both distinguished and numerous
(and often accompanied by their
spouses). These were:
Grand Elder
Damon Yee of San Francisco
Grand Elder Henry Yee of
Cleveland
Western Region Grand President
Alan Yi-Shun Yee of Los
Angeles
USA HQ President William Yu
of San Francisco
USA HQ Vice President Eddie
Yee of San Francisco
San Francisco Chapter Chinese
Secretary Tony Yee of San
Francisco
And, of course,
such a turnout is a tribute of
honor for our own local Grand
Elder John M. Yee. Our
guests provided the highlight of
the buffet luncheon: a
Cantonese-style whole roasted
suckling pig, capped with the
renowned skills of our kinswomen
for homemade village-style
desserts.
In due course, the
Great Wall Hong Kong Cuisine
Restaurant in Phoenix that evening
was filled to capacity for the
Spring Festival banquet (with one
more table of diners than in
2014). The event was graced by the
attendance of Ms. Laura Lee of
Tucson, who is the 2015 Miss
Phoenix Chinese. In a similar
fashion, the attendance of
trail-blazing Arizona State
Senator Kimberly Yee, daughter of
the Master of Ceremonies for the
evening Mr. Jack J. F. Yee.
Senator Yee was the first Asian
American woman in Arizona to be
elected first to the House of
Representatives, and now to the
Senate.
The entertainment
on this evening was well-received
indeed: Mr. Chen Zhigang is among
the few who, as male performers,
were allowed to be trained in
Szechuan opera’s special
highlight: ‘face-changing’ where
the distinctively evocative facial
make-up of the Chinese stage
tradition is in fact on masks
which can serially shift in the
swirl of a vigorous dance number.
And, again as
usually the case, both kinfolk and
friends testified to the enjoyable
evening: they lingered long after
the conclusion of the formalities
in happy converse. This in fact is
by design: typically, seating
arrangements are with considerable
preliminary work carefully devised
so that friends and families sit
together and the reunion over
delicious food naturally leads to
a happy hubbub and a reluctance to
call it a night.
Doubtlessly the
annual Phoenix Yee Fung-toy
Association Spring Festivals in
future years will sustain this
felicitous track record for
inaugurating a new year in our
lunisolar cycle in such a manner
that the customary benisons should
surely ring true: May All Wishes
Be Achieved, May Health and
Strength Be Renewed, and May
Prosperity and Good Fortune Be
Manifest!
M. Cheak Yee / Yu
Wen-chuo
* If
anyone would like a copy of the 2015
Essay “
Emulate Our Model Ancestor,”
please email: twcy85323@yahoo.com
斐匿余風采堂慶祝建堂廿六周年活動
四月廿五日星期六中午，
斐匿余風采堂在十六街會所舉行建堂廿六周年慶祝活動，
余氏宗親及僑社各界人士近百人出席。
詳
情(一)(二)
(亞省時報記者鄧淩攝影報導)
駐洛杉磯臺北經濟文化辦事處副處長王秉慎頒發亞省新續聘
榮譽職人員聘書
>
駐洛杉磯臺北經濟文化辦事處副處長王秉慎於
八 月十五日在亞利桑納州鳳凰城為新（續）
任亞省僑務榮譽職人員頒發聘書，期勉他們繼
續協助政府推動僑務工作。
橙縣僑教中心主任楊海華、
僑務諮詢委員余文勁、尹衍桓、高志中等僑務
榮譽職人員、
全美黃氏宗親會元老團主席黃定江、
余風采堂美西副總長余文澤、
前白宮亞裔委員會委員鄧朝駒、僑聯總會、龍岡公所、鄧高密公所、華人耆英會、華裔退伍軍人會等傳統、
新興僑社先進三十餘人均在場觀禮。
亞省新續聘榮譽職人員計有僑務諮詢委員尹衍
桓（續聘），僑務顧問鄭弘 （新
聘）、周瓊華（新聘）、黃玉蓮(新聘）、
王瑋王亭(續聘），僑務促進委員張慧美(新
聘)等六人，聘期自104年4月1日至
107年6月30日止。
中華民國政府為提供全球僑胞優質服務，多年
來借重各地僑界賢達人士的 服務
熱忱與專業長才，
並依相關規定審慎遴聘僑務委員、僑務顧問、僑務促進委員等僑務榮譽職人士，
擔任政府與海外僑胞間溝通橋梁，積極協助僑
民於僑居國參與公共事務、 政經活動
及推廣國民外交工作。
美余風采堂美西總長永源
副總長文澤聯合舉行答謝晚宴
