Hong Kong is after all not a particularly big city but there is a big part called New Territories which is an unknown quantity to me. My impressions on New Territories all come from bits and pieces from TV programmes, but I finally had some first-hand experience and impression on this part of Hong Kong when I stayed in the district of Tin Shui Wai over the Lunar New Year holiday. I have never thought that rural landscape and charm can still exist in an ultramodern ever-changing Hong Kong! 雖說香港地方細小，但新界對我來說一直是個陌生的地方，印象完全來自電視零碎的片段，直至過年時在天水圍住了兩星期，我才體會到新界原來另有一番景象，更意想不到這轉變急促、高度現代化的城市還容得下一點鄉土氣息！ On the second day of the Lunar New Year (24th Januray) I followed my brother and his family to the village at Wang Toi Shan where his wife’s family used to live. I didn’t have the faintest idea of where the village was, until my brother’s father-in-law started pointing out to me some landmarks along the road, such as the Shek Kong Airfield and the former location of Choi Yuen Tsuen, a village that