So Uk

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Family letter
1960s-80s
Elderly chatting in So Uk Estate. Ho Sau walked past a corner at So Uk Estate and caught the sight of a man reading something to a woman. He exclaimed that women of the older generations were usually illiterate, under the feudal saying that women with virtue were not educated. He imagined that the old man might be reading a family letter to the woman. It helped her to relieve her home-sickness because there was a saying that ‘a letter from home is worth thousands pieces of gold’.

愛兒負笈往歐西　學業有成冠試闈
升職加薪誠喜事　明年兼且抱孫歸