San Tsuen () is a village situated in the north eastern
New Territories
The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...
of Hong Kong, to the west of the town of
Sha Tau Kok
Sha Tau Kok is a closed city, closed town in Hong Kong. The last remaining major settlement in the Frontier Closed Area, it is Hong Kong's northernmost town.
Geography
The small rural village of Sha Tau Kok is located on the northern sh ...
.
The village is inhabited by the Yau (,
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 ...
: k
hiu33) clan. It is a
Hakka speaking village.
San Tsuen was the village that linguist
Henry Henne
Henry Henne (21 October 1918 – 29 June 2002) was a Norwegian linguist.
Henne was born in Bergen, and grew up in Solheimsviken, as a son of Halvar Henne (1894–1965) and Marie Bjørkly (1884–1959). He was married twice, the second time to an A ...
chose to source his informant Khjew Fuj () for the Hakka dialect of Sha Tau Kok. He collected his information between July 1949 and April 1950.
Administration
San Tsuen is a recognized village under the
New Territories
The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...
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 ...
. It is one of the villages represented within the Sha Tau Kok District Rural Committee. For electoral purposes, San Tsuen is part of the
Sha Ta constituency, which is currently represented by Ko Wai-kei.
San Tsuen is a recognized village under the
New Territories
The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...
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
San Tsuen was served by the San Tsuen station of the former
Sha Tau Kok Railway
The Sha Tau Kok Railway ( Chinese: 沙頭角鐵路) was a narrow-gauge light rail operated by the Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation, running from Fanling to Sha Tau Kok in the northern New Territories of Hong Kong. It was long and had eight ...
, which was in operation from 1911 to 1928. San Tsuen station was opened in February 1916.
See also
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List of villages in Hong Kong
The following is a list of villages in Hong Kong.
Villages in the New Territories
Non-indigenous villages are ''italicised''. Composite villages are bolded.
Each village has one resident representative and at least one indigenous inhabitant repr ...
References
Further reading
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Henry Henne
Henry Henne (21 October 1918 – 29 June 2002) was a Norwegian linguist.
Henne was born in Bergen, and grew up in Solheimsviken, as a son of Halvar Henne (1894–1965) and Marie Bjørkly (1884–1959). He was married twice, the second time to an A ...
. ''Sathewkok Hakka Phonology''. Norsk Tidskrift for Sprogvidenskap Bind XX. 1964.
External links
Delineation of area of existing village San Tsuen (Sha Tau Kok) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)* Film Services Office
San Tsuen
Villages in North District, Hong Kong
Sha Tau Kok
Hakka Chinese
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