An Exhibition about Hong Kong （1）
I went to the Hong Kong Museum of History on a Sunday to see the exhibition 'Centenary of China's 1911 Revolution'（辛亥革命百周年展）.
It was crowded. Many young people were there looking attentively at the exhibits. I have to say I was surprised as going to exhibitions in Hong Kong is not regarded as something very entertaining.
The short films taken during the revolution and the pictures of China photographed by foreigners at that time attracted the most viewers. In an image on Le Petit Journal （February 1911）, some men are having their queues cut, a way to say goodbye to the hairstyle dictated by the Qing Court.
One part of the exhibition is about the role played by Hong Kong, but not many viewers were there.
In the middle was a screen showing old photos of Hong Kong, featuring the old looks of Queen's Road Central and the waterfront. Of all those old buildings, only Man Mo Temple （文武廟，the temple for the god of literature and the god of martial art） is still there. On the left and right of the screen , I saw some quotable quotes about Hong Kong. One of them is taken from a speech of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. He made that speech when he was invited to give a talk at the University of Hong Kong in 1923.
Sun's address is interesting. He began by saying that he felt as though he had returned home because Hong Kong was his intellectual birthplace. He said he had not prepared a speech but thought he would like to answer certain questions which had been put to him many times and which, no doubt, many present would also like to put to him.
