Wong Mo Ying
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Wong Mo Ying (Chinese: 黃毛應) is a village in the Tai Mong Tsai area of Sai Kung District, Hong Kong.
Wong Mo Ying is a Hakka village which was populated by inhabitants with the surname Tang (鄧), originally from Danshui (淡水) of Huizhou, who settled in Wong Mo Ying probably between the 1750s and the 1840s.[1]
Wong Mo Ying is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.[2]
The Rosary Mission Centre (玫瑰小堂) is a chapel built in 1940 in Wong Mo Ying. On February 3, 1942, the Hong Kong-Kowloon Independent Battalion (東江縱隊港九獨立大隊) under the People's Anti-Japanese Principal Guerrilla Force of Guangdong, or Dongjiang Guerrilla Force, was established in Wong Mo Ying Church.[1][3][4] The chapel is listed as a Grade II historic building.[5]
References
- ^ a b Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Rosary Mission Centre, No. 1 Wong Mo Ying
- ^ "List of Recognized Villages under the New Territories Small House Policy" (PDF). Lands Department. September 2009.
- ^ Chan, Sui-jeung (2009). East River Column: Hong Kong Guerrillas in the Second World War and After. Hong Kong University Press. p. 85. ISBN 9789622098503.
- ^ Chen Daming, Hong Kong's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force (香港抗日游擊隊) (Hong Kong: Universal Press, 2000), pp. 26-27; Choi Chung Man, "Sai Kung People's Support for the Hong Kong-Kowloon Independent Company" (西貢人民對港九大隊的支持), in Chui Yuet Ching, ed., Active in Hong Kong: A Record of Anti-Japanese Efforts of the Hong Kong-Kowloon Independent Battalion in Sai Kung (活躍在 香江：港九大隊西貢地區抗日實錄) (Hong Kong: Joint Publishing, 1993), pp. 168-172. (References cited in The Tai Po Book, p. 205).
- ^ Antiquities Advisory Board. List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings with Assessment Results
Further reading
- Hamilton, Eric; Schofield, Walter; Peplow, S. H.; Tsui, Paul; Coates, Austin; Hayes, James (2010). "Chapter 6. Sai Kung Peninsula". In Strickland, John (ed.). Southern District Officer Reports: Islands and Villages in Rural Hong Kong, 1910-60. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 265–266. ISBN 9789888028382.
External links
- Delineation of area of existing village Wong Mo Ying (Sai Kung) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
- Pictures of Rosary Mission Centre: [1] [2]
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