- 生卒年代 / Years
- 1861–1936
- 家族关系 / Family Relation
- 第一代 · First generation
- 简介 / Bio
- 厦门翔安马巷西炉村人，出身贫寒，私塾仅读两年便出外谋生，靠自学成才。渡台学医归来后在厦门开设牙医诊所，逐渐发迹。他一生横跨实业、报业、革命三条线：创办《博文日报》《厦门日报》等多份报纸，鼓吹革新；1908年创立淘化大同食品罐头公司，是福建最早的罐头食品企业，兼任十余家企业董事；辛亥革命时秘密输款、散发《革命军》，厦门光复后获光复一等勋章，历任军政要职。晚年领导“保全海后滩公民会”，与英国殖民者周旋多年，迫使其无条件交还租界。致富不忘公益，先后捐资十余所学校及多间医院。1936年病逝，享年76岁。他也通音律，酷爱七弦琴，家中收藏数张，常与家人合奏，是黄氏家族古琴渊源的起点。
- Born into a poor family in Xilu Village, Maxiang, Xiang'an, Xiamen, Huang Tingyuan — known in family and company usage by the Hokkien romanization Ng Teng Guan — received only two years of private schooling before leaving home to make his own way, largely self-taught thereafter. After travelling to Taiwan to study medicine, he returned to Xiamen and opened a dental practice, from which his fortunes gradually grew. His life ran along three intertwined lines — industry, the press, and revolution: he founded several newspapers, including the Bowen Daily (《博文日报》) and the Xiamen Daily (《厦门日报》), advocating reform; in 1908 he established Amoy Canning (淘化大同), the earliest cannery in Fujian, and served as director of more than a dozen other enterprises; during the 1911 Revolution he secretly funnelled funds and distributed the pamphlet Revolutionary Army (《革命军》), and after the liberation of Xiamen he was awarded the First Class Order of Restoration and held a succession of senior military and civil posts. In his later years he led the Citizens' Association for the Preservation of the Houhaitan Foreshore (保全海后滩公民会), contending for years with the British colonial authorities and eventually forcing the unconditional return of the concession. Having grown wealthy, he did not forget public welfare, donating to more than ten schools and several hospitals. He died of illness in 1936, aged 76. He was also versed in music and deeply fond of the guqin, keeping several instruments at home and often playing together with his family — the point of origin for the Huang family's guqin lineage.