More than a century after Choie Sew Hoy revolutionised Otago's gold-dredging industry, his descendants still gather each Chinese New Year in Dunedin — some now four generations removed from the goldfields, many having never set foot in Guangdong. We spoke to three family members about what remains, and what has changed.
徐肇开彻底革新奥塔哥淘金采掘业逾一个世纪之后，他的后人每年春节仍会在达尼丁聚会——其中不少人距离金矿已有四代之遥，许多人甚至从未踏足广东。我们采访了三位家族成员，聊了聊哪些东西留下来了，哪些已经改变。
"We grew up knowing the dredge, not the village he came from."
"我们从小知道的是那艘采金船，不是他老家的那个村子。"Sew Hoy's great-great-granddaughter, now a Dunedin schoolteacher, described a family identity shaped less by ancestral geography than by a specific stretch of the Shotover River — the site of the innovations that made the family's name.
徐肇开的玄孙女如今是达尼丁的一名教师，她描述的家族身份认同，塑造它的与其说是祖籍地理，不如说是肖特欧沃河的那一段河道——正是那里的技术革新，让这个家族声名远扬。
Pavilion Ⅵ · China 大中华
Read the fuller historical account of Choie Sew Hoy and Otago's hydraulic gold-dredging innovations.
阅读徐肇开与奥塔哥水力采金技术革新的完整历史记录。
Asked whether the family still feels a pull toward Guangdong, all three interviewees gave a version of the same answer: Otago is home, and always has been — but Sew Hoy's story is what makes that home feel earned rather than accidental.
被问及家族是否仍对广东有归属牵挂，三位受访者给出的答案本质相同：奥塔哥才是家、一直都是家——只是徐肇开的故事，让这个"家"显得是靠奋斗赢来的，而不是偶然落脚。