My great-great grandfather used to work for the KMT party in China back in the years from 1910 - 1930, where he served as the Headmaster for the Huangpu Military Academy, one of the most highly regarded military school in the pre-1949 China.
The Yik family originated from the Hunan Province in China, where the province has nurtured countless generals and military officials dating back from the Ming Dynasty. Therefore since young, I've always wondered about the exact reasons that provoked the "Yik diaspora", where basically the whole family left Hunan for resettlement in Hong Kong.
Until a New Year's Eve Dinner when I was 13 that my drunken grandfather talked to us about the narrative. Soon after the CCP took regime over Hunan, a mass number of KMT officials were forced to flee the province - with a number of the Yik relatives murdered in the political persecution. He dropped tears when the story reached the climax - where my grandfather and my grandmother swam through the bay that delineates Hong Kong from mainland Shenzhen, with machine-gun bullets shot on the sea surface. They swam for seemingly indefinite periods of time until physical exhaustion, and until their bodies hit the shores of Hong Kong pre-occupied under the UK government.
The KMT legacy then was deemed transferred from Hunan Province to Hong Kong; where until this day, remains so.