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Sheung Wun Yiu
Wun Yiu Village is a village located in Tai Po in Hong Kong. Wun Yiu Village consists of Sheung Wun Yiu () and Ha Wun Yiu (). Administration Wun Yiu is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy. Wun Yiu is one of the villages represented within the Tai Po Rural Committee. For electoral purposes, Wun Yiu is part of the Tai Po Kau (constituency), Tai Po Kau constituency, which is currently represented by Patrick Mo Ka-chun. History The area was once a center of porcelain industry in the New Territories. The clans of Man and Tse began manufacturing blue and white porcelain in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). In 1674 (the 13th year of the reign of the Qing dynasty Kangxi Emperor), the Ma Hakka people, Hakka clan, originally from Changle county, Guangdong, settled in Tai Po and purchased the kilns from the Man clan. At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Ha Wun Yiu was 60; the number of males was 26. The population of Sheung Wun Yiu was 129; the num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HK WunYiuPublicSchool
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898... British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resumed after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
