Ng Sai Ming
Ng Sai Ming
Village elder yearning for rural lifestyle
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Memories of a now disappeared lifestyle
Memories of a now disappeared lifestyle
Ng Sai Ming’s ancestral house had been levelled in the early 1960s and was later converted into what is now the Tung Tau Estate and Tung Wui Estate-Photo taken by HKMP Team (2012)
Memories of a now disappeared lifestyle
Ng Sai Ming’s ancestral house had been levelled in the early 1960s and was later converted into what is now the Tung Tau Estate and Tung Wui Estate-Photo taken by HKMP Team (2012)
How Ng Sai Ming missed the rural life of going to bed and getting up early
Ng Sai Ming missed the lives in ancestral house. He moved out of Sha Po when the village was demolished. He was upset that the ancestral home was gone. The site became Block 23 of Tung Tau Estate (Editor's note: now Tung Wui Estate), he often returned to Sha Po to reminiscence the past days at the ancestral house. He believed that it was better to live at the ancestral home because the neighbours were be closer to each other and it was easy to see and talk to each other. Communication was convenient. Before the war, villagers went to sleep and get up early. They had dinner at around 4pm to 5pm. After dinner, the elderlies sat on the stone benches in the square to relax in the shades and chat. The atmosphere was very lively. At 8pm to 9pm, people would go to sleep. Very few households had lamps in those days.