Ng Chuen Kung
Ng Chuen Kung
A rich family had their house built outside the walled village
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A statue of the Seven Sisters
A statue of the Seven Sisters
This picture was taken at Peng Chau’s Seven Sisters Temple in 2010-Hong Kong Memory Website
A statue of the Seven Sisters
This picture was taken at Peng Chau’s Seven Sisters Temple in 2010-Hong Kong Memory Website
Ng Chuen Kung’s family’s ancestral house had a tai tei tong where festivals could be held
CK Ng’s large house had an independent 7-foot-tall wall full of flowerpots on the top. The main door of the house was a wooden sliding door. The wall had another door. Between the wall and the large house there was a big yard, which was 40 feet in length and 15 feet in width, occupying an area of about 700 square feet. During the Seven Sisters Festival in July of the lunar calendar, the family sometimes built a bamboo shed by the yard. CK Ng’s elder sisters asked their girl friends to come over and celebrate the festival. In the evening inside the bamboo shed, they worshipped the deities, burned joss paper and prepared sundries such as jewels. The Seven Sisters Festival was noisy, and those who worshipped the deities were mostly single women.