A miserable childhood, at the age of 3, he followed his mother along the street to beg, and then sold chewing gum to survive.
In the turbulent times of Hong Kong in the 1960s, many poor people lived precarious lives. "I really saw a lot of dead people, I saw her an hour ago, ah, sister, how many things did you buy for me today, and an hour later I saw her lying on the ground and dead." 」 Hui Yinghong recalls.
Watching a familiar person die in front of her, the young Hui Yinghong, early to feel the indifference of human nature and the coolness of the world, until the age of 11, Hui Yinghong met a foreign sailor, she felt a little warmth, the sailors would buy her gum every day, and also gave her fries and joked with her, amusing her, but suddenly one day when the sailors went to her again, there was no smile on her face. The sailor said he was going to Vietnam and didn't know if he would die, so he gave her all the money.
She said. After that day, the sailors never appeared again, and Hui Yinghong had been waiting for news from him and had not yet married. She even went to the sailor's hometown in 2017 to find him. 50 years later, Hui Yinghong still can't forget that time.