由人而神、從史轉醫新加坡林太師信仰文化的在地敘說

The Research about Local Narrative in Belief Culture of Lim Tai See in Singapore

林太師本名為林偕春，字孚元、號警庸，晚號雲山居士。明嘉靖16年（1537生於福建省雲霄縣葭州棕園，嘉靖44年（1565）進士。生性淡泊名利，辭官後歸鄉辦學，教育地方學子，受到鄉親愛戴，著有《雲山居士集》，編修《實錄》、《承天大志》、《漳浦縣志》等。卒於萬曆甲辰年（1604），享年68歲，獲萬曆皇帝追贈「太子太傅」，後世稱「林太師公」。本文主要透過《雲山居士集》探討林偕春的文學書寫與風格特色，並歸納其正直不阿、以民為本和教育鄉民等生命特質，更因「正直成神」讓林偕春從歷史上的雲霄太史轉變為信仰上的林太史公及林太師公。20世紀後福建華人過番南洋，新加坡禡山溪的林太師公靈感彰顯，經過在地敘說過程拓展神職成為林太醫公透過在地華人社群形成所謂的「地方知識」而匯集成一個地方信仰文化圈，也凝聚在地華人認同，成為當地華人的共同記憶。

Lim Tai See’s (1537-1604) original name was Lin Xie Chun, and pseudonym name is Yun San Ju Shi. He wrote Yun Shan Ju Shi Ji, and people have known him as “Lim Tai See Gong.” This paper mainly discusses Lin Xie Chun’s literary writing and style through the Yun Shan Ju Shi Ji and summarizes his life traits, such as integrity, people-oriented, and educate villagers. He becomes a God with his integrity behavior and transformed identity from “historiographer-Lim Tai See Gong” in the history field to the “Imperial tutor-Lin Tai Shi Gong” in folk belief. After the 20th Century, Hokkien Chinese immigrated to Singapore and carried their ancestor God--Lim Tai See, to the Ma-san Stream area. Lim Tai See Gong inspired his mighty by local narrative and collective memory process and expanded his priesthood to become Lin Tai Yi Gong. The Hokkien Chinese community, through the ground, to form the so-called “local knowledge” and collected into the local religious culture, cohesion in Chinese identity, also become the shared memory of the local Chinese.