Tiger Tiger-HK Telegraph-02-01-1936 | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Tiger Tiger-HK Telegraph-02-01-1936

Tiger Tiger-HK Telegraph-02-01-1936
Submitted by IDJ
Authors: 
IDJ
Tags: 
tigers
tiger
wildlife
Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Thursday, January 2, 1936
Gallery: 
1930s Hong Kong
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Submitted by cornwell on Mon, 2020-12-28 00:47.

The Chinese translation of Taipo should be 大埔. Yet well-known Hong Kong historian and essayist Yeh Lingfeng mentioned in his book that the area around Tai Po was a habitat of wild animal, which people have to "Big-Step" (大步 Homophonic as Taipo) to escape from the attack from wild animals.