Fragment of Mong Kok
Wang Chong, a scholar in Eastern Han Dynasty, who said :” Acts can say classics, ancient nobody knows, What, then scholars, the so-called blind Guzhe also.” However. because of political reason, Hong kongians have not been teaching the their own local history.
In 2004 and 2011. Mong Kok had found out ancient Chinese antiquities in. As Sun Derong thought, who was the curator of the Hong Kong Antiquities and Monuments Office, those antiquities were funerary objects, they had been buried since Mong Kok was sea-filled. Though scholar encouraged government to keep excavating, merchants complained the bad smell which came from the construction plant, as government had not provided a way to comfort the merchants, the construction project had been worked again, archeological work had to be stopped.
Through the ignoring the history, we see Hong Kong government look down on humanism and deny its value lower than economic. Read among Hong Kong government policy, this kind of attitude became more obvious since reunification in 1997 , they had not protect and save resources in Hong Kong ,but even destroyed them. For example, Tsang Tsou Choi (King of Kowloon, 1921-2007), the Hong Kong street calligrapher, his artistic value could not been recognized by government, a lot of his works in the street could not been saved.[3] Recently, The works of The Invader, international street artist, his works which located in Hong Kong were removed by cleaners also. In the other hand, the Yen Chow Street Hawker Bazaar, where provided textile to Hong Kong movie makers, the hawkers are also nowhere to gather each other.
As the lack of local historical inheritance, most Hongkonger did not have the sense of belonging Hong Kong. In the past, many novels and movies pictured Hong Kong as temporary residence, such as Stranger in Hong Kong . Though Hong Kong reunification with China, people did not have the sense of belonging China, but more belonging Hong Kong and localize. As Lee.L (2002, P.4) said:
“Most structure of Hong Kong cultural was deeply Chinese style, as if there are invasion of foreign culture, Hongkonger could make them as their own style. But most of them did not deep understanding of Chinese culture, only limited cultural anthropologists said -- everyday customs and behavior only. This culture of foundation was built from the culture of Lingnan. Since reunification, I thought Hongkongers more localize, Hongkongers are more persistent Lingnan culture which they are living out..”
As the urban changing every second, especially Hong Kong. Since the reunification with China, Hong Kong has been changing from an international metropolis to one of a city in China, Hong Kong tend to lose her own character processively. While we could not obvious to see the profit, but we could see what we loss. The relics news encourage me to scrabble the Hong Kong cityscape by my watercolor painting. I would like to record the culture of Hong Kong, audience could get rid of entertainment and consumerism and get reenchantment the original soul of Hong Kong through my works.