Fuk Hing Bridge

Today's Sunday Morning Post carries a Page 3 article below this photo with the headline "Bruce Lee fan identifies bridge in secretly shot scene". The Fuk Hing Bridge in Pak Tam Chung Country Park is identified as the scene of Bruce Lee's last screen appearance, shot without his knowledge in 1972, for the movie Unicorn Fist.

When we lived at Clover Lodge, a 15-minute walk from Pak Tam Chung, Fawzia and I would walk into the Country Park after dinner. On the way back home, we would stop for a few minutes on the bridge to enjoy the river, the silence, and the solitude. On some evenings, we could hear a flute being played at a nearby house.

The Post article does not mention that Fuk Hing is a footbridge (only for pedestrians and two wheelers) nor does it mention its history. On 23 February 2009, I published a poem titled "A Ballad of Pak Tam Chung" by Patrick Ng Pak-Tay on this blog, and these lines from the poem are about the bridge:

By the “revival bridge”, obviating the need to ford this

“King’s creek” hazardously on foot, next to the present
“Fat Kee store”, whose namesake resident
Of the locale, Ol' Guy Ah Fat, a public-spirited draughtsman,
Drew up the bridge-plan and contacted the local government,
Requesting steel bars, cement and other resources,
And arranging for casual labourers to join forces
In the construction, paying them not in cash,

But in kind, namely, stacks of rice stashed
By the post-war colonial administration.

The bridge in my blog entry, photographed from the opposite direction.