At the end of 1963, as soon as I arrived in the New Territories, my supervisor's interpreter drove me everywhere to look for a suitable village. I finally arrived at the Liao clan village of Sheung Shui with a population of about four or five thousand.
六三年底，我一到新界，指導教授的翻譯梁先生帶著我開車到處看，有的村子太大或太小，有的雜姓，最後我找到上水村廖族，人口大約四、五千。