The Pavilion for Revering Written Words, also called the Hill Top Pavilion today, was a small garden structure built under the direction and contribution of Chang Yutang, the Commodore from 1854 to 1866. It was with a view to remind the Kowloon folks of the long-respected tradition of revering words created by ancient sages that Chang hired people to regularly collect wasted papers around the Walled City and burn them in the incinerator below the Pavilion, to urge people not to throw away papers filled with knowledge. More than just a militant, Chang was a good calligrapher well versed in the “boxing calligraphy”. Naturally the tablet inscriptions and the couplets on the pillars of the Pavilion were all penned by Chang, in his famous “boxing” and “finger” calligraphy.
