Recapture the Joy of Childhood in Viilage

Who says there is no entertainment in the countryside?

The project team has collected numerous rural stories about childhood memories. The villagers of Yim Tin Tsai made toys with local materials creatively, such as making bamboo guns, playing with softdrink bottle caps, hopscotch, skipping ropes, Otedama bean bags, and marbles.

One villager shared his childhood memory of adventures in the mountains and sea during leisurely times, "Whenever I returned to Yim Tin Tsai, I loved doing things that I couldn’t do elsewhere, like catching spiders, picking kumquats and stone fruit (wild, edible fruits). We would also see clams crawling around on the beach and horseshoe crabs during low tide. Salt production had already become history when I was young. We called it a salt pond. We used to walk barefoot in mud to catch prawns for food or as baits. Sometimes, we could even see large mud crabs."

Life in Yim Tin Tsai may be simple and unadorned, yet it allows people to rediscover priceless innocence and happiness.