Cheang Hong Lim and wife Madam Goh
found in Ancestral tablet found in 溪尾村（福建省漳州市）
According to this blog entry :
中华民族海外寻根问祖莅临长泰(武安)探寻宋代宰相章惇二舍章三潮家族后裔分布情况 -
榕城梅云街道潮东村的始祖章荣什，博学多才，善于治学兼通地理。元朝末年随福建莆田人许万一入潮。许万一创业于夏桥村，章荣什时为东主许万一卜穴建“佳城”（即墓地）。许万一以礼金酬赠，章荣什拒收。因章氏是教书先生，在许家教万一的三个儿子读书识字，当章荣什年迈无儿时，许氏便以幼子许玉潭为章荣什嗣裔、承章姓。章荣什临终时写下遗嘱，要子孙后代履行“生章死许”之训，既答谢许氏万一之义，又表叶落归根之意。自此，章荣什的子孙恪守祖训，世代相传。章廉许义，亦成潮汕姓氏中一桩佳话
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The progenitor of Chaodong Village, Meiyun Subdistrict, Rongcheng, Cheang Rongshen, was learned and talented, skilled in scholarship, and also proficient in geography. In the late Yuan Dynasty, he accompanied Koh Wanyi, a native of Putian, Fujian, to the Chao region. Koh Wanyi established his settlement in Xiaqiao Village, and Cheang Rongshen at that time selected a site and built a "Jiacheng" (a tomb) for the master Koh Wanyi. Koh Wanyi offered him a monetary gift as compensation, but Cheang Rongshen refused to accept it.
As Cheang was a scholar and teacher, he taught Koh Wanyi's three sons to read and write at the Koh family home. When Cheang Rongshen grew old and had no sons, the Koh family designated their youngest son, Koh Yutan, as Cheang Rongshen's heir to carry on the Cheang surname. On his deathbed, Cheang Rongshen wrote a will, instructing his descendants to follow the teaching of "born Cheang, died Koh." This was both to express gratitude for Koh Wanyi's righteousness and to symbolize the idea of "fallen leaves returning to their roots" (referring to the adopted son returning to his original Koh lineage in death).
From then on, Cheang Rongshen's descendants strictly adhered to this ancestral instruction, passing it down through generations. The integrity of the Cheang family and the righteousness of the Koh family thus became a celebrated story among the surnames of the Chaoshan region.
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