Ng Siu Hung was brought up in a traditional walled village family. Although he had never met his grandparents, he heard that his grandfather lazed at home while his grandmother struggled to raise pigs to make ends meet. As a result, he was well aware of traditional walled village customs. Many men of Ng Siu Hing’s father’s generation were sailors. Such career choices reflected Nga Tsin Wai villagers’ change from an agricultural to a more modern way of life. While Ng Siu Hung had studied at the village’s ancestral hall school, he dropped out early on. As with his fellow village children, elders arranged for him to become an apprentice. Following in his father’s footsteps, he eventually chose seafaring as a lifelong career and was away from home for lengthy periods. Ng Siu Hung’s family lived together with his younger uncle’s family in an ancestral house the two sets of relatives jointly owned. Aware of modern legal restrictions, Ng Siu Hung feels sad that walled villagers weren’t able to hang onto their ancestral homes and is angry as to how traditional inheritance rights have been trampled on. Ng Siu Hung eventually succeeded his younger uncle as Manager of properties belonging to the Ng Shing Tat Tso and Ng Yat Un Tso clans in 1993. He also continues to serve as Deputy Village Headman of Nga Tsin Wai to this day. To counter property developers’ recent launching of acquisition plans, Ng Siu Hung unsuccessfully started initiating a village protection movement in the early years of this century. In 2006, he entered into acquisition negotiations with the Urban Renewal Authority. Having finally reached agreement with the authorities in 2011, he left the village later that same year.