Father was a typical Chinese scholar, groomed and educated in a long history of family scholastic tradition. Proud to be a son of the House of Three Reflections , a descendant of Sage as well as the offspring of Filial Pieties , and unperturbed by a life time of violent disturbances due to wars, revolutions and changing conditions of life, he held dearly to heart the moral teachings of his forefathers, yet never imposed them on his children. Tradition was the life force for father, so he preferred to attire in traditional robes. Father loved literature and art his entire life and befriended great many well known contemporary Chinese artists, poets and scholars every where he went. While in Hong Kong he established a literary club with 28 friends of similar tastes in 1967 to promote arts, literatures and traditional moral values. He then published a series of nonprofit literary periodicals for distribution. The followings are the cover page, the Introduction and the Foreword written in father's own hand writing for his starting edition of the series. This edition contains pictures of 20 seals in carved calligraphic art, 5 Chinese paintings and 403 classical poems created by more than 2 dozen authors. Unfortunately I cannot put them in this website because this is not the appropriate site for poetry. Perhaps someday I would republish all the family poetry, including those by my uncle Kee In, but then, that book should contain more than seven consecutive generations of family poetical works... 

The 28 starting members of the literary club. Father is seated 5th from left, wearing traditional gown. This photo is an enlarged reprint from the book, which does not give good resolution.

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