Hung Gu

Biography

Hung Gu (Wong Chau Hung) was born in Hong Kong in the early 1930s. Her ancestral home is Xingning, Guangdong. Her parents came to settle in Hong Kong before the Second World War. Her father was a hawker selling claypot puddings and her mother reared pigs at home. Hung Gu spent her childhood in Lower Sha Po and returned to her native place during the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong. When the War was over, they moved into a stone house in the 1st Lane of Nga Tsin Wai. She lived there until 2012 when the land was resumed by the government. Hung Gu never went to school. She had worked in a number of factories after the Second World War and retired in the early 1990s. Hung Gu was brought up in Sha Po and Nga Tsin Wai, she had witnessed the changes in the surrounding landscape. She has had a passion for the village history since childhood. She had great passion with the stories told by the senior villagers, from whom she learnt a lot of tales and knowledge. She is especially knowledgeable about the architecture in Nga Tsin Wai, including the defensive walls, moats, protection houses and turrets.