Tai Mei Tuk (officially known as in

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; formerly and still commonly known as ; also written as or ) is a place close to the

Plover Cove Reservoir Plover Cove Reservoir, located within Plover Cove Country Park, in the northeastern New Territories, is the largest reservoir in Hong Kong in terms of area, and the second-largest in terms of volume. It is the world's first freshwater coastal ...

in the

Tai Po District Tai Po District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. The suburban district covers the areas of Tai Po New Town (including areas such as Tai Po Market, , Tai Po Industrial Estate, Tai Wo Estate), Tai Po Tau, Tai Po Kau, Hong Lok Yuen, Ti ...

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 ...

, Hong Kong.

Administration

Tai Mei Tuk 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 ...

. It is one of the villages represented within the Tai Po Rural Committee. For electoral purposes, Tai Mei Tuk is part of the

Shuen Wan Shuen may refer to: * Shuen paper, also known as Xuan paper or Shuen paper or rice paper, is a kind of paper originating in ancient China used for writing and painting * Shuen Wan, also known as Plover Cove or Shuen Wan Hoi, a cove in the Tai Po ar ...

constituency, which was formerly represented by So Tat-leung until October 2021.

History

Historically,

Ting Kok Ting Kok is the name of an area and a village in the northeastern part of Hong Kong. It is located on the northern shore of Plover Cove * Lee Ancestral Hall (). Built in the late 19th century. Not graded. There are more than 10 ancestral halls i ...

, together with the nearby

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 Shan Liu, Lai Pik Shan,

Lo Tsz Tin Lo Tsz Tin () is a village in Tai Po District, Hong Kong. Administration Lo Tsz Tin is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy. It is one of the villages represented within the Tai Po Rural Committee. For electoral purpose ...

, Lung Mei and Tai Mei Tuk belonged to the Ting Kok Yeuk () alliance.

Name

Tai Mei Tuk means "the very end" in the

Cantonese language Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding ar ...

which depicts the landscape. The

homonym In linguistics, homonyms are words which are homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of pronunciation), or homophones ( equivocal words, that share the same pronunciation, regardless of spelling), or both. Using this definiti ...

character (tuk) is borrowed for the name. Recent Cantonese research suggested that the correct character is .

Features

Tai Mei Tuk is a popular place for barbecues and cycling. There are villages and a harbour nearby, where many restaurants can be found. Bicycles are also available for hire in the villages. The Tai Mei Tuk Sea Activity Centre of the

Scout Association of Hong Kong The Scout Association of Hong Kong is the largest scouting organisation in Hong Kong. Scout training was first introduced in Hong Kong in 1909 and 1910 by the Protestant based Boys' Brigade, Chums Scout Patrols and British Boy Scouts. The Cath ...

is located in the area and also provides sea Scouting activities in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Government has holiday bungalows for government employees at Tai Mei Tuk.

References

External links

Delineation of area of existing village Tai Mei Tuk (Tai Po) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
Populated places in Hong Kong Tai Po District {{HK-geo-stub