Ho Chung
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Ho Chung (Template:Zh) is a village on the Sai Kung Peninsula in Hong Kong. The Ho Chung River (Script error: No such module "Lang".) runs through the village.
Administration
Ho Chung is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.[1]
History
A Neolithic stone-working site was discovered at Ho Chung in 1999.[2]
The village was likely founded in the mid-16th century.[3]
Ho Chung was the centre of an inter-village grouping, the Ho Chung Tung (Template:Zh) or Ho Chung Seven Villages (Template:Zh). This grouping owned the Che Kung Temple at Ho Chung. It comprised the Punti villages of Ho Chung, Nam Pin Wai, Mok Tse Che, Tai Lam Wu (including its off-shoot Ngau Liu), Man Wo (including its off-shoot Chuk Yuen), Tai Po Tsai (on Clear Water Bay Peninsula), and Sheung Sze Wan (on Clearwater Bay Peninsula). Shek Pok Wai (Template:Zh), considered as an off-shoot of Ho Chung, is also included.[3][4]
At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Ho Chung was 418; the number of males was 159. The population of Shek Pok Wai was 13; the number of males was 4.[5]
Austin Coates reported in 1955 that Nam Pin Wai was a "Cantonese hamlet, subsidiary of Ho Chung".[4]
Sights
The Che Kung Temple in Ho Chung, one of the two temples in Hong Kong dedicated to Che Kung,[6] is a Grade I Historic Building.[7]
The Chan Ancestral Hall, at No. 25 Ho Chung First Lane was built around the 1850s.[8] It is a Grade III Historic Building.[7]
Industrial buildings
Lee Kum Kee formerly had an oyster sauce and soy sauce factory in Ho Chung, adjacent to a Lee Seng Heng fish sauce factory. The Lee Kum Kee factory closed between 1996 and 1999, and by 2013 both sauce factories were noted to have been shuttered for years.[9] There is also a former multistory dye works, that was once used as an Asia Television studio.
See also
- Wo Mei, an adjacent village located south of Ho Chung.
References
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Further reading
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External links
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- Delineation of area of existing village Ho Chung (Sai Kung) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022) (includes Ho Chung Village, Ho Chung New Village and Nam Pin Wai)
- Press release "Significant archaeological discoveries from Ho Chung, Sai Kung", July 6, 1999
- Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Che Kung Temple, Ho Chung Road Pictures
- Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Chan Ancestral Hall, No. 25 Ho Chung First Lane Pictures
- Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 Nam Pin Wai Tsuen Pictures
- Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Nos. 3, 4 & 5 Nam Pin Wai Tsuen Pictures
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