Nga Tsin Wai Tsuen (衙前圍村)

Several years ago, I was able to enter the village, walk past some of the inhabited houses, visit the temple in the middle of the village, and buy things at some of the shops at the periphery of the village.  I saw people, talking birds, old tools, well-maintained houses, ., and lots of things of interest.  I had been back a few times since.  Each time fewer houses standing, more were blocked off, fewer and fewer people and business.  I never saw that talking bird again.  

Today it appears that all people have been driven away, and the whole village is fenced off.  The few houses remaining are allowed to deteriorate.  Soon there will be little that is salvageable, even if people do want to savage it.  Another village bites the bullet. 

That seems to be the story of Hong Kong.  Another old village purposely killed off.  Or simply allowed to deteriorate to the point where it is no longer salvageable, then mercifully killed to avoid necessary suffering.  To make way for development, of high rises, public buildings, …   

In Hong Kong, it is all about money, power, advantage, carrying out the will of the master.  Never truly about culture, respect, values, the will of the masses.  

Don’t blame the younger generation.  It is their parents’ generation - those who hold the power - that taught them that.