Wan Cheung
Wan Cheung
My heart remains with Nga Tsin Wai forever
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The 1986 Nga Tsin Wai Jiao Festival
The 1986 Nga Tsin Wai Jiao Festival
A photograph of Wan Cheung (third from right) with the Jiao Festival Preparatory Committee members and village elders in front of the gatehouse-Provided by Wan Cheung
The 1986 Nga Tsin Wai Jiao Festival
A photograph of Wan Cheung (third from right) with the Jiao Festival Preparatory Committee members and village elders in front of the gatehouse-Provided by Wan Cheung
His lifelong emotional ties to Nga Tsin Wai resulted in his eagerness to help run village affairs
Wan Cheung thought that during their daily interactions, villagers generally did not care about the difference between indigenous inhabitants and those with different family names. That said, whenever there was a conflict of interest, many problems would still arise due to such divisions of identity. When he served as Treasurer of the Jiao Festival Preparatory Committee in 1986, another villager who had moved out of the village many years before said he was shocked to learn Wan Cheung had been made Treasurer. After some villagers explained to him the extent of Wan Cheung’s contribution to village affairs, he let the matter drop. Although Wan Cheung sometimes had to face harsh words, he still worked hard for the village because he had lived there for so long. Having studied at Nga Tsin Wai’s Ng Clan Ancestral Hall before the war, the only time he left the village was when he went to Po Toi Island during the Japanese occupation. Although his ancestral grave was in Po Toi Island, Wan Cheung had deep feelings for Nga Tsin Wai as he considered it to be his spiritual home. Today, no one would dare to say that he was not a Nga Tsin Wai native through and through! Members of the younger generation also respect him very much. Wan Cheung stresses that there were always good guys and bad guys in the village regardless of what their family names happened to be.