A typical Nga Tsin Wai village house’s rice pestle
While this is only the front part of a rice pestle used for crushing grains or other food, such utensils provide memories of farming life-Photo taken by HKMP Team (2012)
A typical Nga Tsin Wai village house’s rice pestle
While this is only the front part of a rice pestle used for crushing grains or other food, such utensils provide memories of farming life-Photo taken by HKMP Team (2012)
The stone rice grinder recalls memories of rural life
Ng Sui Mo favours retaining some of Nga Tsin Wai’s village houses so villagers can hold on to their memories. He also still remembers vividly the stone pestles of the village houses which were mostly built under the staircases to save space. After cutting the grains, villagers took home and ground the rice grains with the pestle in order to remove the chaff, creating loud pounding sounds. In the past every household in Shek Ku Lung Village had its own stone pestle while only a few village houses in Nga Tsin Wai had made a pestle of their own. Ng Sui Mo laments that the passing of the decades may have caused the decline of his village as today’s villagers have no feeling for rural life.