Sam A () is a village in the northeastern

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of Hong Kong, named after the bay of Sam A Wan ().

Administration

Sam A is a recognized village under the

Small House Policy The Small House Policy (SHP, ) was introduced in 1972 in Hong Kong. The objective was to improve the then prevailing low standard of housing in the rural areas of the New Territories. The Policy allows an indigenous male villager who is 18 ye ...

History

The Tsang () of Sam A have the same ancestor with the Tsang of Ma Tseuk Leng Sheung and Lai Chi Wo.

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. Historic Building Appraisal
Tsang Ancestral Hall, Sheung Ma Tseuk Leng
/ref> In its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, there were more than 200 residents in the village, but at the end of the 1960s most of the men left the village to seek employment in the

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and the

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. Sam A is one of the seven

Hakka The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhej ...

villages of the Hing Chun Yeuk (), which comprises

Kop Tong Kop Tong () is an upland Hakka village in the North District, in the northeastern part of the New Territories of Hong Kong. Administration Kop Tong is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy. History Kop Tong is over 300 ...

, Lai Chi Wo, Mui Tsz Lam,

Ngau Shi Wu Ngau Shi Wu () is a village in the North District of Hong Kong. Administration Ngau Shi Wu is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy. History Ngau Shi Wu is one of the seven Hakka villages of the Hing Chun Yeuk (), wh ...

, Sam A, Siu Tan (), and

So Lo Pun So Lo Pun () is a village in the northeastern New Territories of Hong Kong, within the Plover Cove Country Park. It is located northwest of Lai Chi Wo and northeast of Kuk Po. Today, the village is derelict and is uninhabited. Descendants of the f ...

. Historic Building Appraisal
Hip Tin Temple & Hok Shan Monastery Lai Chi Wo, Sha Tau Kok
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Features

Today, the Tsang

ancestral hall An ancestral shrine, hall or temple ( or , vi, Nhà thờ họ; Chữ Hán: 家祠户), also called lineage temple, is a temple dedicated to deified ancestors and progenitors of surname lineages or families in the Chinese tradition. Ancestra ...

and the abandoned three-village school still stand, but there is little life here on a week-day. On week-ends, however, some Tsang clan members return to their ancestral village to run a couple of stores that offer food and lodgings for the ever increasing number of visitors. Still, even today, Sam A is still only accessible by boat or on foot.

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Delineation of area of existing village Sam A (Sha Tau Kok) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
* Villages in North District, Hong Kong {{HongKong-geo-stub

Administration

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