Two Young Post junior reporters joined the first phase of an art project called 'Songs of Rural Hong Kong and Storytellers'.
The programme is organised by HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity. It encourages students to reflect on their relationship with rural living, urban development, land use and nature.
Tara Lee and Jonathan Wong Chun-him did just that. Here, they report on their experience of the workshops and field trips.
We first joined a series of talks and workshops where we learned about life in Hong Kong's last few farming communities and fishing villages.
We learned that the agricultural and fishery industries are in decline in Hong Kong partly because few young people are interested in working in such fields. Yet despite the appeals of rural lifestyles and festivals, it is important that we don't romanticise village life.
Life in rural places can be tough and people's relationship with nature is not always as harmonious as we would like to imagine.
Three workshops were aimed at helping students learn how to represent the life of rural people accurately.