What’s more, Ng’s father was also enthusiastic about affairs of the Ancestral Trust. In the old days, when worshipping the ancestors in the graveyard, money would be shared among only the males in a clan. One year in the late 1960s, when the clansmen went to worship their ancestors in Shatin, Ng’s father voices out that any female who wanted to worship the ancestors should be entitled to a share of the money. This suggestion was agreed by the clansmen present, and was recorded in the Big Book (editor’s note: a book that records matters about worshipping the ancestors in graveyards and information about participants). That practice passed on to nowadays, and had a big influence over the Ancestral Trust. Ng’s father had always devoted himself in public affairs, and he only let go until he got really ill. Ng Siu Kei took his father as a role model, and was greatly driven by him to serve the village and the Ancestral Trust. He thought that his blood was from his father. Despite his frustrations in recent years, he was willing to continue his service as long as health permitted. He advocated the reconstruction of the Ancestral Hall in recent years. When seeing the reconstructed Ancestral Hall today, he felt greatly relieved and felt like he did not let his parents down.
" /> Since he started to understand things, Ng Siu Kei had had the impression that his father was working for the Village Office and the Ancestral Trust every now and then. Only for only a couple of years had his father been out of the village, sailing a ship for a living. After Ng Yau Fat (Uncle Fat) and others passed away, there was little wonder that the villagers constituted his father Village Headman as due to his dedication to serving the village. His term of Village Headman was not long, yet he cared not about the title but was only concerned with what he could do for his village. He cared about everything concerning the village, big or small. He was concerned even with trivial things such as the replacement of Chinese couplets on the village gate and the shortage of players in a mahjong game at Village Office. His handwriting was good, and he handled most of the clerical jobs of the Village Office. To Ng Siu Kei, of all his father’s contributions to the village, the most impressive one had to be the Pavilion of Wind and Rain. It was jointly funded and organized by his father, Lee Tong and Luk Ching Shan (running steel works at Nga Tsin Wai’s edge ) to provide shelter for villagers against bad weathers.What’s more, Ng’s father was also enthusiastic about affairs of the Ancestral Trust. In the old days, when worshipping the ancestors in the graveyard, money would be shared among only the males in a clan. One year in the late 1960s, when the clansmen went to worship their ancestors in Shatin, Ng’s father voices out that any female who wanted to worship the ancestors should be entitled to a share of the money. This suggestion was agreed by the clansmen present, and was recorded in the Big Book (editor’s note: a book that records matters about worshipping the ancestors in graveyards and information about participants). That practice passed on to nowadays, and had a big influence over the Ancestral Trust. Ng’s father had always devoted himself in public affairs, and he only let go until he got really ill. Ng Siu Kei took his father as a role model, and was greatly driven by him to serve the village and the Ancestral Trust. He thought that his blood was from his father. Despite his frustrations in recent years, he was willing to continue his service as long as health permitted. He advocated the reconstruction of the Ancestral Hall in recent years. When seeing the reconstructed Ancestral Hall today, he felt greatly relieved and felt like he did not let his parents down.
" /> Since he started to understand things, Ng Siu Kei had had the impression that his father was working for the Village Office and the Ancestral Trust every now and then. Only for only a couple of years had his father been out of the village, sailing a ship for a living. After Ng Yau Fat (Uncle Fat) and others passed away, there was little wonder that the villagers constituted his father Village Headman as due to his dedication to serving the village. His term of Village Headman was not long, yet he cared not about the title but was only concerned with what he could do for his village. He cared about everything concerning the village, big or small. He was concerned even with trivial things such as the replacement of Chinese couplets on the village gate and the shortage of players in a mahjong game at Village Office. His handwriting was good, and he handled most of the clerical jobs of the Village Office. To Ng Siu Kei, of all his father’s contributions to the village, the most impressive one had to be the Pavilion of Wind and Rain. It was jointly funded and organized by his father, Lee Tong and Luk Ching Shan (running steel works at Nga Tsin Wai’s edge ) to provide shelter for villagers against bad weathers.What’s more, Ng’s father was also enthusiastic about affairs of the Ancestral Trust. In the old days, when worshipping the ancestors in the graveyard, money would be shared among only the males in a clan. One year in the late 1960s, when the clansmen went to worship their ancestors in Shatin, Ng’s father voices out that any female who wanted to worship the ancestors should be entitled to a share of the money. This suggestion was agreed by the clansmen present, and was recorded in the Big Book (editor’s note: a book that records matters about worshipping the ancestors in graveyards and information about participants). That practice passed on to nowadays, and had a big influence over the Ancestral Trust. Ng’s father had always devoted himself in public affairs, and he only let go until he got really ill. Ng Siu Kei took his father as a role model, and was greatly driven by him to serve the village and the Ancestral Trust. He thought that his blood was from his father. Despite his frustrations in recent years, he was willing to continue his service as long as health permitted. He advocated the reconstruction of the Ancestral Hall in recent years. When seeing the reconstructed Ancestral Hall today, he felt greatly relieved and felt like he did not let his parents down.
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