Hau Wong
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Hau Wong or Hou Wang (Template:Zh) is a title that can be translated as "Prince Marquis" or "Holy Marquis". It is not any one person's name.[1] Hau Wong refers usually to Template:Ill (Template:Zh), a loyal and courageous general. Despite his failing health, he remained in the army to protect the last emperor of the Southern Song dynasty when he took refuge southwards in Kowloon.[2]
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Temples in Hong Kong
There are several temples dedicated to Hau Wong in Hong Kong, including six temples in Yuen Long.[3] These temples can be named Hau Wong Temple (Template:Zh) or Yeung Hau Temple (Template:Zh). The table provides a partial list of these temples.
Note 1: A territory-wide grade reassessment of historic buildings is ongoing. The grades listed in the table are based on these updates [1] [2] (8 June 2023). The temples with a "Not listed" status in the table below are not graded and do not appear in the list of historic buildings considered for grading.
Note 2: While most probably incomplete, this list is tentatively exhaustive.
Islands District
| Location | Notes | Status | References | Photographs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tai O, Lantau Island Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
Yeung Hau Temple (大澳楊侯古廟) Built in 1699.[4] Managed by the Chinese Temples Committee. |
Declared[5] (2017) | [5] [6] | |
| Shek Pik, Lantau Island | Inundated by the Shek Pik Reservoir in 1960.[6] | Non extant | [7] | |
| Sha Tsui Tau (Template:Zh), Tung Chung, Lantau Island Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
Hau Wong Temple, Tung Chung (東涌侯王古廟) Built in 1765,[6] it is the largest Hau Wong temple in Lantau island.[7] |
Grade II | [8] [9] [10] [11] |
Sha Tin District
| Location | Notes | Status | References | Photographs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tai Wai Village, Tai Wai, Sha Tin District Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
Hau Wong Temple, Tai Wai (大圍侯王宮) Built in 1983.[8] It replaced an earlier temple, probably built in 1884 and demolished in 1982.[9] |
Not listed | [13] |
Tsuen Wan District
| Location | Notes | Status | References | Photographs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top floor, 75 Ham Tin Street, Shek Pik New Village, Tsuen Wan Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
Hung Hau Temple (Template:Zh) At the time of the construction of the Shek Pik Reservoir on Lantau Island, in the late 1950s, most of the villagers of Shek Pik Village moved into five-storey apartment blocks in the urban Shek Pik New Village (Template:Zh) in Tsuen Wan. The two temples, Hau Wong Temple and Hung Shing Temple, were combined into the current Hung Hau Temple. |
Not listed | [14] [15] |
Tuen Mun District
| Location | Notes | Status | References | Photographs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ng Lau Road (Template:Zh), Tuen Tsz Wai, Lam Tei, Tuen Mun District Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
Sam Shing Temple (Template:Zh) Dedicated to the Marshal Yuen Tan Fuk Fu (Template:Zh), Hung Shing and Hau Wong. It was rebuilt in 1993. |
Nil grade | [16] [17] [18] |
Wong Tai Sin District
| Location | Notes | Status | References | Photographs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kowloon City area, at the southwestern corner of Wong Tai Sin District. Corner of Tung Tau Tsuen Road and Junction Road, opposite Kowloon Walled City Park. Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
Hau Wong Temple, Junction Road (九龍城侯王廟) Built around 1730.[10] Historic characters in the temple are said to have been worked on by Chang Yu-tang, Commodore of Dapeng, general of Kowloon Walled City. It is believed that Emperor Bing and his brother Emperor Duanzong made their last stance in the Song dynasty.[11] Managed by the Chinese Temples Committee. |
Declared (Previously Grade I) |
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Yuen Long District
| Location | Notes | Status | References | Photographs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hang Tau Tsuen, next to Sheung Cheung Wai, Ping Shan, Yuen Long District Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
Yeung Hau Temple, Ping Shan (屏山楊侯古廟) Partly dedicated to Hau Wong. The temple is part of the Ping Shan Heritage Trail.[12][13] |
Grade III | [22] [23] [24] [25] | |
| Tong Yan San Tsuen (Template:Zh), Ping Shan, Yuen Long District
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Yeung Hau Temple, Tong Yan San Tsuen (Template:Zh). The temple is also known as Yee Ling Temple and Za Ling Temple Situated to the east of Tong Yan San Tsuen near Sha Tseng Road (Template:Zh),[14] it was built in 1711.[15] |
Grade III | [26] [27] [28] | |
| Tung Tau Tsuen (Template:Zh), Ha Tsuen, Yuen Long District Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
Yeung Hau Temple, Ha Tsuen (廈村楊侯宮) also known as Tung Tau Miu (Template:Zh)[16] | Declared[17] | [29] [30] [31] | |
| San Wai (Template:Zh), Ha Tsuen, Yuen Long District Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
Yeung Hau Temple (Template:Zh), also called the Sai Tau Miu (Template:Zh)[18] It was renovated in 1901. It serves as the social venue which plays the dual roles as a temple and an ancestral hall of San Wai. Basin meal feasts are organized in front of the Temple during Yeung Hau Festival and Lunar New Year.[19] |
Nil grade | [32] [33] [34] [35] | |
| Sik Kong Wai (Template:Zh), Ha Tsuen, Yuen Long District Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
Yeung Hau Temple (Template:Zh) Shrine of a walled village. Situated at the end of the central axis of Sik Kong Wai, a walled village of the Tang Clan in Ha Tsuen, with its name recorded in the Xin'an Gazetteer of 1820.[20] |
Nil grade | [36] [37] [38] [39] | |
| No. 26C Cheung Shing Street, Yuen Long Kau Hui, Yuen Long Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
Tai Wong Temple, Yuen Long Kau Hui (Template:Zh) It was probably built between 1662 and 1722. It is the main temple of Nam Pin Wai as well as Yuen Long Kau Hui.[21] It was built for the worship of Hung Shing and Yeung Hau. Other than for worship, the temple was a venue for solving disputes and discussing market affairs among the villagers.[22] It also once served as a yamen and the officials lived there.[21] |
Grade I | [40] [41] | |
| Wong Uk Tsuen, Yuen Long District Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
Yi Shing Temple (Template:Zh), conventionally called Tai Wong Temple It is mainly for the worship of Hung Shing and Yeung Hau deities. Renovation was carried out in 1924. It still acts as an alliance temple of the Tung Tau Alliance (Template:Zh) formed by the seven villages next to Yuen Long Kau Hui. In the old days, the temple operated a credit society serving the alliance villages.[23][24] |
Nil grade | [42] [43] [44] | |
| Yuen Kong Tsuen (Template:Zh), Pat Heung, Yuen Long District Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
Chung Shing Temple (Template:Zh, Temple of All Saints) The main deity of the temple is Pak Tai with some others including Hau Wong and the Earth God.[25] |
Grade III | [45] [46] [47] |
Temples outside of Hong Kong
| Location | Notes | Status | References | Photographs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herberton Road in Atherton, Queensland, Australia | The Hou Wang Temple is dedicated to bodyguard commander Yang Liang Chieh in 1280 AD, who was responsible for the life of the 8 year old Emperor Bing of Song losing to the Mongols in the falling Song dynasty[26] |
See also
- Hou Wang Temple, Queensland, Australia
- Sung Wong Toi
- Places of worship in Hong Kong
References
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- ↑ Frederick, Holder. Livernash, Edward James. [1892] (1892). The Californian Illustrated Magazine: December, 1892 to May 1893 Volume III. The Californian Publishing Company. No ISBN digitized text
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- ↑ Antiquities and Monuments Office website
- ↑ Chinese Temples Committee. Hau Wong Temple, Tai O
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- ↑ "Old Hau Wong Temple, Tai Wai, Sha Tin", in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, Vol. 23, 1983. p.233-240
- ↑ Chinese Temples Committee. Hau Wong Temple, Junction Road
- ↑ Lim, Patricia. [2002] (2002). Discovering Hong Hong's Cultural Heritage. Central, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. ISBN Volume One 0-19-592723-0
- ↑ Ping Shan Trail at hkoutdoors.com
- ↑ Ping Shan Heritage Trail - Yeung Hau Temple, Hang Tau Tsuen
- ↑ Antiquities Advisory Board. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Yeung Hau Temple, Tong Yan San Tsuen
- ↑ Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Entrance Gate, San Wai, Ha Tsuen
- ↑ Antiquities and Monuments Office. Declared Monuments in Hong Kong. Tung Tau Tsuen, Ha Tsuen Yeung Hau Temple
- ↑ Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Yeung Hau Temple, San Wai, Ha Tsuen
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- ↑ Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Brief Information on proposed Grade Nil Items, pp.361-362 Template:Webarchive
- ↑ a b Antiquities Advisory Board. Introduction to 1444 Historic Buildings. Item #190
- ↑ Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Tai Wong Old Temple, No. 26C Cheung Shing Street, Yuen Long Kau Hui
- ↑ Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Yi Shing Temple, Wong Uk Tsuen
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- ↑ Antiquities Advisory Board. Brief Information on Grade III Items. Item #1065 Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Houwang. "Houwang Template:Webarchive." Australian Temple website. Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
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