Hong Kong’s local writer Shu Xiangcheng has pioneered a course of local writing in Hong Kong literature that is unique to Hong Kong’s experience and composed entirely of local colours, and this has been recognised by critics. This article takes his long masterpiece The Sun Set as an example. Through his reproduction of Lingnan culture and Hong Kong’s regional features and people, we can see the picture of life with a strong Lingnan flavour sketched out by his delicate brushstrokes. From his reflections on urban expansion, we can see his “nostalgia” and “land-loving complex” with the port where he grew up, and his poetic and authentic language style, which provided valuable assets for the rise of local writers and the enrichment of Lingnan and Hong Kong literature later on. Unlike the vernacular writings of the Mainland and Taiwan in the same period, Shu Xiangcheng uses purely vernacular support to reproduce the reverse but romantic scenery of the ports at the same time when Hong Kong’s urban civilisation was progressing, in order to express his nostalgia for the disappeared ports in the expanding city, his praise for the simple folkways of the ports, and his critique of the city’s decadence and desires.