Unknowingly, I have moved out of the urban area for more than ten years. I still remember that when I was in elementary school, I often implored my parents to visit Cheung Chau on weekends or holidays. We would stay here for two days and one night. Unfortunately, due to the increasingly busy studies in recent years, it has been several years. I have not returned to Cheung Chau. Recently, the feeling of “homesickness” has become more and more intense. I decided to grasp this holiday to return to Cheung Chau to visit this familiar place and take more videos, and photos for recording this trip and leave a gorgeous image, and memory there. When I returned to Cheung Chau, I noticed that it has changed a lot over the years. Many places are quite different from when I lived here before. Several areas are even unfamiliar to me. I can’t help but feel a little sigh.

After arriving in Cheung Chau, I saw many new small shops, and the streets were crowded with people which was very lively. I still remember that the streets of Cheung Chau were very quiet when I was a child, and there were not many shops. The owners of the shops knew each other and had a harmonious relationship. When my parents are at work, I often go to some of these shops for a long time to chat with the shop owners and play with their children. However, since 2005, the Hong Kong government has been committed to promoting tourism and vigorously promoting the “Taiping Qingjiao” in Changzhou. It successfully attracts a large number of tourists and Hong Kong people to travel to Cheung Chau and make it become prosperous, lost its uniqueness of tranquility before, more and more new shops were opened, and the sales target was also changed from “locals” to tourists to promote consumption. Looking at the shops in front of me now, many of the old shops I knew no longer exist, replaced by food shops, seafood shops, souvenir shops, etc. Therefore I decided to go to the shops I knew to greet the owner, and then take pictures to record these shops. I hope they are still open when I come back in the future.

After recording these shops, I went to Guanyinwan Beach where I played since I was a child. This is the place where I learned to swim. When I was a child, I used to swim here and pick up shells. It is characterized by a few boats moored so the water quality is very clean. After the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, a windsurfing statue was placed in the small park next to Guanyin Bay. It has turned this place into one of the tourist hotspots in Cheung Chau. Now when I come here again, the increase in tourists has made the place notably crowded, and the garbage has also increased. Fortunately, the water quality is still very clean. I decided to make a film recording my favorite beach and swam here again to regain my childhood memories. I hope that the beach will still retain its childhood appearance next time and the amount of garbage can also be reduced.