Ng Sai Ming grew up in a rural family. His grandfather had two wives. The first wife was named Yuen, and came from Man Wo village, Ho Chung. She gave birth to Ng’s father and his father’s elder brother, but she passed away when Ng’s father was seven years old. The second wife, named Pang, came from Fanling and gave birth to only one daughter. When Ng Sai Ming was four years old, Nga Tsin Wai Village held a Jiao Festival. His grandfather and his step-grandmother carried him on their backs and brought him to watch a puppet show. At the age of 10 or 11, his father would occasionally bring him to visit his step-grandmother’s brother in Fanling. Ng Sai Ming liked the white sugar cake the most, which were made by Fanling villagers. The villagers made a living by farming and once gave Sai Ming’s family gifts of sweet potatoes, taro and other kinds of crops. The Sha Po villagers in those days were rural residents of the New Territories. They lived and dressed in the country way.