Yesterday at around 11am in Tuen Mun, a person filmed a mother yelling angrily at her young daughter, who appeared to be around five or six years old, after the child apparently did not pay enough attention during badminton practice.
The little girl, carrying her racket, dropped to her knees on the pavement and began kowtowing to her mother, begging for forgiveness, while the mother continued to loudly chastise the child.
“I know I’ve done wrong, I’m sorry,” the girl said repeatedly as she kowtowed at least 20 times, reports Apple Daily.
The video was taken by a secondary school student, surnamed Zheng, who had just finished playing basketball with his friends at the Tai Hing Sports Centre on Tsing Chung Koon Road.
The student says that the little girl was exiting the centre when her mother, walking behind her, said “You’re not paying attention while you play badminton, you go ahead, don’t follow me”.
The little girl walked forwards a few metres when she suddenly dropped to her knees and started kowtowing.
The student who filmed the video said he heard the sound of the little girl hitting her head on the pavement as she kowtowed, but that she didn’t see any injuries on the child’s forehead.
An umbrella-toting man reportedly approached the pair and asked the mother to stop, but she paid him no heed.
Some netizens claimed that they saw the mother-daughter duo at noon at the library, and that the girl was still apologising and kowtowing to her mother.
Unsurprisingly, Hongkongers have had some fierce words for the mother while their hearts went out to the little girl.
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