Fung Toy
An article written by Yen Ock Yee
You are a gentleman and a scholar”, that is a favorite old saying here in America. It is used to express one’s
appreciation towards some one that helped him, and that is how Yee Jing‘s friends and his associates feel about him.
The honorable Yee Jing was born during the Sung Dynasty in the year of 1000. He was a scholar with many talents & abilities, thoughtful and considerate. He served the emperor with great distinction. Among his many political and governmental accomplishments, he served as a governor, a skillful diplomat, and in many other noteworthy capacities.
Yee Jing is distinguished by the genuinely extensive and deep admiration and respect held by the people who knew him.
One of his friends wrote a poem to praise him as a person with high moral standard and achievements, and there were two words that stood out from the rest: Fung Toy. Many people thought these two words fit him perfectly, and thus the two words were Fung Toy, thus Fung Toy became the trade mark of Yee Jing. When Yee Jing reported to the Emperor after his successful campaign to Vietnam, the Emperor himself wrote that “Fung Toy is number one.” On behalf of local people who wanted to honor their famous citizen Yee Jing, the governor of Shaochow [Shaoguan] built an arch to honor and memorialize him during the Ming Dynasty in the year of 1497. The arch is the Fung Toy Lau, and was rebuilt in 1934, and was remodeled again in 1999.
You are a gentleman and a scholar”, that is a favorite old saying here in America. It is used to express one’s
appreciation towards some one that helped him, and that is how Yee Jing‘s friends and his associates feel about him.
The honorable Yee Jing was born during the Sung Dynasty in the year of 1000. He was a scholar with many talents & abilities, thoughtful and considerate. He served the emperor with great distinction. Among his many political and governmental accomplishments, he served as a governor, a skillful diplomat, and in many other noteworthy capacities.
Yee Jing is distinguished by the genuinely extensive and deep admiration and respect held by the people who knew him.
One of his friends wrote a poem to praise him as a person with high moral standard and achievements, and there were two words that stood out from the rest: Fung Toy. Many people thought these two words fit him perfectly, and thus the two words were Fung Toy, thus Fung Toy became the trade mark of Yee Jing. When Yee Jing reported to the Emperor after his successful campaign to Vietnam, the Emperor himself wrote that “Fung Toy is number one.” On behalf of local people who wanted to honor their famous citizen Yee Jing, the governor of Shaochow [Shaoguan] built an arch to honor and memorialize him during the Ming Dynasty in the year of 1497. The arch is the Fung Toy Lau, and was rebuilt in 1934, and was remodeled again in 1999.
Many monuments were built by his descendents with this name, Fung Toy. There are two high schools in the Tri-Cities area using the name of Fung Toy. Most recently, one was built in the Hong Kong, Kowloon, New Territory area in 2004. The English name for the school is Elegantia College, because the words of Fung Toy in English mean “elegance”, “grace”, and “dignity”.
Copyright 2007 - Yee Fung Toy Association of Detroit, MI
Copyright 2007 - Yee Fung Toy Association of Detroit, MI