If you want to give an example of a symbol of the British period in Hong Kong, then it must be the first to recommend the "Aqun Belt Road Map", which covers the entire colonial era.
What's so special about this picture?
Aqun leads the way
Legend has it that British troops got lost when they first landed in Stanley, Hong Kong Island, and were led to the northern part of Hong Kong Island by a fisherwoman from the Gang family, Chen Qun ("Ah Kun").
At that time, the route ran through Hong Kong Island from south to north, and was about the area from the current Repulse Bay Road, Heung Kao Road, Wong Chuk Hang Road, Aberdeen Avenue, Shek Pai Wan Road and Pok Fu Lam Road to Sai Ying Pun "Mass Belt Road", so this matter was called "Ah Qun Belt Road".
If it is true that Aqun led the way, then Chen Qun is properly the Hong Kong version of Wu Sangui, the "sinner" who led troops into Hong Kong.
However, there are also questions about the authenticity of "Chen Qun", because Chen Qun has not been recorded in any historical documents by the Manchu Qing dynasty or the later British government in Hong Kong.
The original version of this "Ah Qun Belt Road" was in 1842, and the Hong Kong coat of arms (Victorian Seal) depicted Victoria Harbour with Kowloon as the background, Chinese sailing ships with the yellow dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty, British merchant ships, a foreign businessman, a Chinese merchant and a woman from the Shu family, which was the beginning of the road map for Aqun and fully expressed the situation of Hong Kong when the port was opened.
But in the second version of this picture, after coloring, we can clearly see that the Englishman at that time was more like a merchant than a soldier, and the person shaking hands with him was more like a Qing dynasty man, and the red ship behind them was more like a cargo ship, which is not consistent with the facts described in the story.
After scrutiny, the "Aqun Belt Road Map" should have been fabricated by posterity, and later it was rumored to be false, and even the Hong Kong and British governments believed it.
THE ORIGIN OF HONG KONG
IT IS SAID THAT WHEN THE BRITISH ARMY PASSED THROUGH THE HONG KONG VILLAGE AND ASKED FOR THE NAME OF THE PLACE, CHEN QUN REPLIED "HONG KONG" (PRONOUNCED SIMILAR TO COAXING GANG) WITH THE SOUND OF THE WATER MAN, AND THE BRITISH ARMY IMMEDIATELY USED THIS SOUND AS A REFERENCE, MARKING THE PLACE NAME "HONG KONG", WHICH LATER BECAME THE GENERAL NAME OF THE WHOLE ISLAND. This has also become one of the sources of Hong Kong place names.
Later, the British chose Hong Kong Island as a trophy in the Treaty of Nanjing.
The origin of the group lead road
The origin of the road first appeared in the late Ming Dynasty, when the family of Tang Yuen-hun, a large landowner from Kam Tin in Yuen Long, bought land on Hong Kong Island for their ancestral graves, mentioning that they owned land on "Wakame Road" (or Qun Tai Road), one to two centuries before the British landed on Hong Kong Island. The "Wakame Road" he was referring to was a small fishing village near Causeway Bay, located in the area of Sogo on today's Tung Kok Road, inhabited by about 50 people in 1841.
The late Hong Kong expert Liang Tao pointed out that there are several possibilities, in addition to Aqun leading the way, another possibility is that because the whole island of Hong Kong is mountainous, farmers go up the mountain to cut grass and cut firewood, and step out of the path on the rolling peaks. This road wraps around the mountainside of Hong Kong Island, and from the other side looks like a woman's nepotism and is called a crony road, which was later transformed into a group belt road.
In addition, the city of Victoria, established by the British after the opening of Hong Kong, is also called "Wakame Road" Chinese other name. In 1874, Gui Wencan compiled the Tongzhi publication of "Guangdong Illustrated Theory", which recorded that the group led the road as the city of Victoria. In the 1866 "Complete Map of Xin'an County", the location indicated by the Qundai Road at that time was similar.
Groups lead the way milestones
In order to let pedestrians know the direction and distance, the government has set up stone monuments on the side of the road, that is, group leading milestones.
The milestones of the Belt and Road are stone-hewn granite, square or triangular stone pillars with a height of about 1 metre, spires, and the steles are inscribed with English characters and Chinese characters, respectively, in miles and huali, marking the distance between the site and Victoria City and Shek Pai Wan (a milestone west of Shek Pai Bay) or Stanley (a milestone east of Shek Pai Bay) on the Kunbelt Road, which is approximately the current Pokfulam Road, Shek Pai Wan Road, Wong Chuk Hang Road, Heung Tau Road and Repulse Bay Road.