《兩代香港人》（Bilingual Version）

Citizen A 上一代人

 

Back then I was a skinny little kid, barely ten years old. Still, I had a good-sized basket of scrap metal on my back. I was not alone, of course. Ahead of me were bony boys and girls about my age, all born with a burden. 

Boys wore no more than worn-out shorts. Girls fared better, covering themselves in patched clothes. One of them - I couldn't help imagining - turned around and smiled at me. What a lovely twig doll! Doll or no doll, however, we all desperately needed to sell stuff for food in a marketplace beckoning from afar.

Ouch! I cut myself walking barefoot. Well, I had sold my outgrown sandals the other day.

Unusually quiet behind me was my newly widowed mother. In her arms was my baby sister, also unusually quiet.

My baby sister ended up in heaven on that market day. No one explained to me why she didn't have a chance on earth.

It was 1960. Mainland refugees were all over Hong Kong.

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Citizen B 這一代人

調寄《浣溪沙》（詞林正韻第二部平聲）

 

夜海明珠夢海藏，願存心底自由鄉，浮生何處不蒼茫？

歲月無詞誇靜好，欄杆有力拍悲涼，回聲一燕曉東方。

 

Author: Ren Qiulan 

 

 

 

所有跟帖： 

• 收入最低地區——觀塘，不喜歡香港，貧富差太大，人多勢力，分三六九等。。。。。。。 -lovecat08- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 18:51:00

• 謝謝愛貓版主來評。對，據《南華早報》，觀塘區人均收入最低，但是也比某些一線城市的所謂“低端人口”高出不知多少。 -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 19:07:02

• 謝謝青青的山文友留讚鼓勵！ -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 18:58:07

• 讚頂！ -梧桐之丘- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 18:59:43

• 謝謝梧桐版主鼓勵！ -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 19:22:21

• 這後半段英文以前讀過，a sad story, also in your poem. -AP33912- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 19:13:00

• 謝謝AP文友！煩請指明，讓我參照一下。再謝！ -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 19:20:37

• Only a tiny bit - from a song? -AP33912- ♂ (490 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 21:16:34

• Thank u! That's a heartbreaking one about unrequited love. -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 22:22:15

• 在廣州的歲月裏，就聽過不少內地饑民偷渡到香港逃荒的故事。李嘉誠好像也在相若時期離潮逃港的。 -LYJiang- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 19:34:17

• 對。當然，發跡之後，就會有人給他寫傳奇，造神話的。無意貶低他的才能或成就，須要指出當時香港的優勢：誰得誰失，黨管不了的。 -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 19:43:32

• 洋君果然洞若觀火。多年前讀過一個逃港紅衛兵寫的小書《理性的黃昏》，裏麵也一針見血地指出，殖民地政府懂得養金鵝。 -LYJiang- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 19:51:18

• 紅衛兵也想被養成為一隻金鵝吧。 -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 19:53:12

• 哈哈！對對對。站在天安門前高呼萬歲的都是企鵝，走在香港街頭自由賣買的都是準金鵝。鵝鵝鵝，曲項向金歌！ -LYJiang- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 19:58:50

• 先生改寫杜甫兒時名作了。估計喝了點酒不成？ -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 20:02:43

• 三杯兩盞淡酒，怎敵他，晚來金色、鵝過也，正開心，許是舊時相識，滿地黃金堆積！ -LYJiang- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 20:13:52

• 易安居士不饒先生啊！ -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 20:16:07

• 罪過罪過。不如洗洗睡吧。洋君晚安！ -LYJiang- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 20:18:16

• 先生晚安！ -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 20:19:52

• 小r寫得很有味，必須讚。 -nearby- ♂ (34 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 19:39:09

• 謝謝鄰版主！ -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 21:02:11

• 謝謝小西留讚鼓勵！ -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/08/2023 postreply 22:00:18

• 香港當年是繁榮無限，風光無限，算是天時地利人和都趕上了，但是盛衰都有時啊，人隻能看短期選眼前 -浮雲馳- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/09/2023 postreply 04:12:48

• 謝謝浮雲版主！來評甚是，所謂“風水輪流轉”。同時，據我理解，港人是不甘沉淪的。港諺：五窮六絕七翻身。 -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/09/2023 postreply 08:55:38