His story goes ...    
     

brave
witness
quick Tempered
strait forward
honest
devoted
patriotic
good communicative
open minded

 

   
LIVEhe lived almost half century ago. He died in darkness, sick and hungry. I never saw him and even never got to know his story until yesterday!

MEMORIAL HALL The House he lived before has just been evaluated by HK government as historical constructions of 2nd degree. In addition the government still plans to built a memorial hall for him 50 years after his death.

LITTLE POOR TAILOR He went to Bangkok Thailand and work as a trainee tailor when he was a teenager kid.

YOUNG MANUFACTURER & RICHEST Later on, he became the owner of the only one clothing factory for Thai military in the whole country, and one of the richest chinese in Thailand, also favorable friend of 7th Thai King. His success was because of his witness, encourage, hard working, and strait forward as well as good communication.

PRESIDENTWhen the Revolution of 1911 (the Chinese bourgeois democratic revolution led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, which overthrew the Qing Dynasty - the last feudal dynasty in Chinese history) took off, he was introduced to join in the movement by Dr.Sun and voted as the President of the Overseas Chinese Allied Committee of Thailand Branch for four years, and traveled back and forth between China and Thailand.

   

DEVOTION & MOST WANTED He loved China so much. He devoted himself and most of his fortune to Dr. Sun's moment to save China from feudal dynasties. Because he had gone too far, his name was listed as the mosted wanted by Chinese government in that time. He could not go back to China anymore.

PATRIOTISM He decided left Bangkok too. He asked for a large piece of wild land from Thai King in Hay Yat (city in the south). He settled down there and enjoyed working on exploring that land.

The Thai King also offered him a position as official in Thai government, and advised him that in this way he could survive and protected his land from attacking by local Thais because of the anti-chinese trend becoming more seriously at that moment. He refused. He thought as a Chinese he'd rather to take the risk than to be a Thai official. Later on, after his brave fighting with the locals - he even presented himself in the court; he lost that land where he had worked so hard on it. Until now a street in that city is still named after his name.

In Hay Yat, due to no Chinese school, he asked his kids to cross the border to study Chinese in Malaysia by walking the whole night every week.

BACK TO CHINA At last, he lost everything. He sailed back to the New Territories of HK where he was born with his family. He died short afterwards at age of 60, survived by his 6 kids and his wife.


           
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