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Before Hong Kong had streets,
there were paths.
They were not planned.
They were not named.
They appeared where people walked.
After this land began to appear in written records,
movement followed.
Not in large numbers,
but steadily.
Fishermen traveled along the coast.
Salt producers moved between fields and shore.
Traders passed through on their way south.
These journeys left no signs.
No markers.
No maps.
But they shaped the land.
Footpaths formed along ridges and valleys.
Routes followed fresh water and shelter from the wind.
People learned where the land allowed passage,
and where it did not.
These were not roads built for cities.
They were paths built for survival.
Movement connected scattered settlements.
It linked coast to inland.
Village to village.
Shore to shore.
Goods moved slowly.
Information moved even slower.
But both moved.
What mattered was not speed,
but continuity.
Over time,
these repeated journeys created invisible networks.
Routes that existed only in memory,
passed from one generation to the next.
No official records describe these paths.
No stone marks where they began or ended.
Yet without them,
nothing else could follow.
Ports do not appear without movement.
Trade does not exist without routes.
Cities do not form without paths.
Before Hong Kong became a port,
before it became a city,
it was crossed.
By people who left no names behind,
but whose footsteps shaped the future.