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Tai Wai Village
Tai Wai Village (Chinese: 大圍村), also known as Chik Chuen Wai (積存圍), is a walled village in the Tai Wai area of Sha Tin District, Hong Kong.
Tai Wai Village is located next to Tai Wai station and the main commercial streets of the Tai Wai area.
Tai Wai Village is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.
Tai Wai Village, where the name of the area came from, was the largest and oldest walled village in Sha Tin. It was built in 1574 during the Ming dynasty, and was called Chik Chuen Wai (積存圍) at the time. It was originally made up of 16 families, Wai (韋), Chan (陳), Ng (吳), Yeung (楊), Wong (黃), Lee (李), Hui (許), Cheng (鄭), Tong (唐), Yuen (袁), Yau (游), Lam (林), Lok (駱), Tam (譚), Mok (莫) and Choy (蔡).
The Wai family, being the largest family, is thought to be the direct descendants of the famous founder general of the Han dynasty, Han Xin, who purportedly fled there to escape executions ordered by Emperor Gao of Han's empress Empress Lü Zhi. The Han descendants changed their surname into Wai by splitting the word Hon (韓) in two halves and took up the character on the right hand side.
The Cheng family, on the other hand, originated from a place called Xingyang in Zhengzhou, Henan which is the place where Chang'e supposedly flew to the Moon. It is also the birthplace of Li Shangyin, one of the most famous poets in the late Tang dynasty.
Tai Wai was mentioned in the 1688 Xinan gazeeter and it appears on the "Map of the San-On District" published in 1866 by Simeone Volonteri.
At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Tai Wai Village was 350. The number of males was 164.
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Tai Wai Village
Tai Wai Village (Chinese: 大圍村), also known as Chik Chuen Wai (積存圍), is a walled village in the Tai Wai area of Sha Tin District, Hong Kong.
Tai Wai Village is located next to Tai Wai station and the main commercial streets of the Tai Wai area.
Tai Wai Village is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.
Tai Wai Village, where the name of the area came from, was the largest and oldest walled village in Sha Tin. It was built in 1574 during the Ming dynasty, and was called Chik Chuen Wai (積存圍) at the time. It was originally made up of 16 families, Wai (韋), Chan (陳), Ng (吳), Yeung (楊), Wong (黃), Lee (李), Hui (許), Cheng (鄭), Tong (唐), Yuen (袁), Yau (游), Lam (林), Lok (駱), Tam (譚), Mok (莫) and Choy (蔡).
The Wai family, being the largest family, is thought to be the direct descendants of the famous founder general of the Han dynasty, Han Xin, who purportedly fled there to escape executions ordered by Emperor Gao of Han's empress Empress Lü Zhi. The Han descendants changed their surname into Wai by splitting the word Hon (韓) in two halves and took up the character on the right hand side.
The Cheng family, on the other hand, originated from a place called Xingyang in Zhengzhou, Henan which is the place where Chang'e supposedly flew to the Moon. It is also the birthplace of Li Shangyin, one of the most famous poets in the late Tang dynasty.
Tai Wai was mentioned in the 1688 Xinan gazeeter and it appears on the "Map of the San-On District" published in 1866 by Simeone Volonteri.
At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Tai Wai Village was 350. The number of males was 164.