Title
1960s Hong Kong New Territories Village Rice Harvest Farmers Paddy Field China 293 Postcard
Front Description
A colour rural view of a farming village in the New Territories of Hong Kong at rice-harvest time (the Chinese caption 豐收 means “bountiful harvest”). In the foreground stretches a golden paddy field being reaped: bundles and stooks of cut rice stand drying across the field, and several farmers in dark work clothes and conical straw hats labour among them — one carrying a sheaf, others bending to cut or gather the crop. Two large wooden threshing tubs (used to thresh rice by beating the stalks against the sides) stand in the field at right, and at left a farmer works with a water buffalo. Beyond the fields sits a row of traditional single-storey South Chinese village houses with grey-green tiled roofs, whitewashed and red-brick walls and dark doorways, with laundry hung out to dry and household items stacked outside. Lush green banana plants, bamboo and dense wooded hillside rise steeply behind the village. The warm golden tones of the ripe field against the deep green hills, and the saturated colour, are characteristic of a 1960s photochrome tourist postcard.
Back Description
293. The Village of Hong Kong.
豐收
POST CARD
PLACE STAMP HERE
PHOTO BY S. C. MOY PUBLISHED BY PAUL PHOTOGRAPHIC CO., P. O. BOX 8844 MONGKOK, H. K.
PRINTED BY CHEONG HING PRINTING CO., LTD. HONG KONG
The card is unposted, with no stamp, postmark or message written by a sender.
Estimated Era
Approximately 1963–1970. The subject is a New Territories farming village at rice harvest — traditional wet-rice agriculture with water buffalo and hand threshing tubs that was still widespread in rural Hong Kong through the 1960s before farmland declined. The continuous-tone photochrome printing, white border, green divided back, “Place Stamp Here” box, and the identical publisher (Paul Photographic Co., Mongkok) and printer (Cheong Hing Printing Co.) match the companion cards, and the card number 293 falls within the same numbered series, confirming a mid-to-late 1960s issue.
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