Hong Kong Snapshop (104) - Causeway Bay 004 香港隨拍(104) - 銅鑼灣004

Hi Guys! In the newest Hong Kong Snapshot series, I will introduce the story of Causeway Bay. Causeway Bay is at the HK Island. When HK is a world known city, Causeway Bay is a tourists known district. It is a centre of tourism, shopping, culture, entertainment and business, and is a must go place for every HK local and tourist. Causeway Bay has the second most expensive street in the world, and countless international brands. It is the first choice for many international companies to settle in Asia. To introducing Causeway Bay, I firstly have to introduce it’s history of development. Last time, we talked about most of the land in Causeway Bay was auctioned by Jardine Matheson to build warehouse, docks and offices. This time, we will talk about the rest of the land to be owned by another family.

大家好！在最新篇的香港隨拍，我將介紹香港的銅鑼灣區。銅鑼灣為於香港的港島區，當香港是全世界都認識的城市時，銅鑼灣就是每一個遊客都認識的地區。它集旅遊、購物、文化、娛樂、商業於一身，是每一個香港本地人及遊客的必到之處。銅鑼灣擁有現時全球第二貴的街道，國際品牌多不勝數，是很多國際企業落戶亞洲的首選之地。介紹銅鑼灣，先要介紹它的發展歷史，在上一回，我們說到銅鑼灣的大半土地被怡和洋行拍賣所得，建成了倉庫、碼頭、辦公室等，這一回，我們將說說剩下的土地將被另一家族所擁有。

Since the opening of HK in 1841, Causeway Bay had become the world of Jardines for nearly half a century until the entering of the Lee Family. In the 19th century, people of HK mainly had these major entertainments: Cantonese Opera, films and brothels. In the early 20th century, influenced by the Europe and USA, HK had its first theme park in 1915: Cheng Yuen in Happy Valley. It caused great noises and attracted many people to visit. After a while, another theme park called the Happy Valley Playground was built next to Cheng Yuen.

自1841年香港開埠，銅鑼灣成為了怡和的天下接近大半個世紀，直到利氏家族的出現。在十九世紀的香港，市民主要的娛樂主要有幾種：粵劇、電影及青樓，而到了二十世紀初期，受歐美影響，香港在1915年出現了第一個遊樂場：位於跑馬地的「樟園」。樟園建立之初即引起巨大迴響，吸引眾多遊人參觀遊玩，過了不久，樟園的旁邊就多了另一個愉園遊樂場，搶走樟園不少生意，跑馬地電車站更一度更名為愉園電車站。

Cheng Yuen 樟園

Happy Valley Playground 愉園

Theme park became a new business in HK. Tai Bak Hai in Sai Wan and Ming Yuen in North Point became two new theme parks in HK. Instead of garden landscape and restaurant, Tai Bak Lau and Ming Yuen also added motor-driven games, performances and night markets etc. At the same time, the Lee family built the Lee Garden in Causeway Bay. Lee Hysan, the leader of the Lee Family, was an American overseas Chinese. He found the huge business opportunity in HK and moved to HK to run the cloth business. Later he also ran the opium business and soon became the “king of opium” in HK. In around 1930s, he bought the East Point Hill in Causeway Bay from Jardines and built the “Lee Garden”. Since then, Happy Valley Playground, Tai Bak Lau, Ming Yuen and Lee Garden were listed as “the four theme parks in HK”. East Point Hill was then changed to Lee Garden Hill.

大批商人看到了遊樂場的商機，紛紛仿效，如西環的太白樓，及北角的名園。樟園及愉園其實只有園林景觀及美食餐廳，故太白樓及名園更增加了機動遊戲及夜市等等。而在銅鑼灣，亦有人新建了一個遊樂場，他們就是利氏家族。利氏主人利希慎本是美國華僑，因看中了香港的巨大商機，未幾就來到香港，經營布匹生意，後來更染指鴉片，成為著名的「鴉片大王」。大約在三十年代，利希慎向怡和購入一座未被開發的鵝頭山，興建了遊樂場「利園」，至此，愉園、太白樓、名園及利園成為了「香港四大名園」，鵝頭山亦被改名為「利園山」。

The red zone is Causeway Bay today. The black circle is Lee Garden Hill
紅區是今天的銅鑼灣，而黑圈就是利園山

Ming Yuen 名園

Lee Garden 利園

Later, the department stores in Central and Sheung Wan also built small playgrounds on their roof top with games and performances. People then chose those small theme parks instead of the four theme parks that are far away. Soon the four theme parks were closed. Lee Hysan rebuilt Lee Garden to film studio and started the rapid growth of HK film industry. Lee Hysan was an important contributor of HK movie. At the same time, Lee built the “Lee Theatre” at Lee Garden Hill. Lee Theatre was built with the fusion of western and Chinese style and owned the only rotating stage in HK. It was the most luxurious theatre in HK, mainly showing Cantonese operas, films and music performances. In around 1990s, Lee Theatre was converted to high-end shopping mall and commercial building. Before that, Lee Theatre was the stage of Miss Hong Kong every year.

後來，位於中環及上環的百貨公司均在其大廈天台興建小遊樂園，大家自然就選擇這些遊樂園而不去偏遠的四大名園了，很快，四大名園都紛紛結業，而利希慎則留下利園的園林景觀，改建成電影片場，造就了粵語電影的啟始，利希慎也成為了香港電影發展的重要貢獻者。同時利希慎在利園山興建了「利舞臺戲院」，利舞臺以西式設計配上東方特式，更擁有香港唯一的旋轉舞台，是當時香港最豪華的戲院，主要放映粵劇、電影及音樂演出。利舞臺約在九十年代改建成商業大廈及高級商場，而在改建前，它是每一年香港小姐選舉的舞台。

The rooftop playground 當年的天台遊樂場

Lee Theatre 利舞臺

Lee Theatre today 今天的利舞臺

In around 1950, Lee Hysan passed away. His son changed Lee Garden to real estate project and built a number of residential buildings. From the street names at Lee Garden Hill today, we can find a lot of traces of the Lee Family: Lee Garden Road, Hysan Road, Lan Fong Road (wife of Lee Hysan), Sunnging Road, Hoi Ping Road, Sun Wui Road, Yun Ping Road (howetown of Lee Hysan) and also Bak Sha Road, Kai Chiu Road (two famous scholar from the hometown of Lee Hysan). The new residents of Causeway Bay brought the new development.

約在1950年，利希慎過身，他的後人將利園山改建成地產項目，建成了不少住宅項目，從今天利園山一帶的街道名，我們可以看到不少利氏的痕跡：利園山道、希慎道、蘭芳道(利希慎夫人的名字)、新寧道、開平道、新會道、恩平道 (利希慎的故鄉四邑)，還有白沙道和啟超道 (兩名四邑出身的著名學者)等。這些住宅為銅鑼灣注人大量人口，為銅鑼灣未來的發展建立根基。

Lee Garden Road 利園山道

Pak Sha Road 白沙道

Today, the area has become one of the most prosperous area of Causeway Bay. It has a large flow of people, cars, and also has two high-end shopping malls, the Hysan Place and Lee Garden, which are places that tourists cannot miss.

從今天的利園山可見，這一帶已成銅鑼灣最繁榮地段之一，人流不斷，車來車往，也擁有希慎廣場及利園兩個高級商場，是遊客不可錯過的地方。

The hill now becomes a small slope 利園山今天只是小小斜路

Today’s Lee Garden 今天的利園

The Hysan Place 希慎廣場

The large population of Causeway Bay built up the base for It to become the most famous tourist area in Hong Kong. In the 1980s, Japanese department stores started their business in Causeway Bay, making it a tourist hotspot. Let’s talk about it in the next post!

這個時候的銅鑼灣已擁有大量人口，但仍不足以成為香港最繁華的旅遊區，直到八十年代，日資百貨公司開始大舉進駐銅鑼灣，讓其搖身一變而成旅遊熱點，且看下回分解！

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謝謝你能抽空閱讀這篇文章，我平日喜歡分享香港的故事，希望大家多多支持，我會繼續努力！

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