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Tsat Tsz Mui or Braemar Point is a neighbourhood, formerly a village, east of
Aged public housing estates included in the Comprehensive Structural Investigation Programme
/ref> with several blocks completed in 1954, and
Tsat Tsz Mui or Braemar Point is a neighbourhood, formerly a village, east of North Point
North Point is a mixed-use urban area in the Eastern District, Hong Kong, Eastern District of Hong Kong. Located in the northeastern part of Hong Kong Island, the area is named after a cape between Tin Hau, Hong Kong, Causeway Bay and Tsat Ts ...
, in Hong Kong. It is centred on Tsat Tsz Mui Road
Tsat Tsz Mui Road () is a road in Tsat Tsz Mui in Hong Kong. The road runs in the area of Tsat Tsz Mui and eastern North Point from west to east, parallel to King's Road, except disjoint by a residential-commercial complex of Island Place.
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Name
Tsat Tsz Mui inCantonese
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 are ...
means "seven sisters". There was a tragic story about them. Once upon a time, there lived a village of Hakka people
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, Zhe ...
. Seven girl playmates pledged to be sisters in their lifetime, die on the same day and never get married. One day, the third sister's parents decided to make her marry a man. She did not want to but dared not say a word against her parents. The day before the wedding, all seven sisters committed suicide at the sea shore. The next day, at the bay appeared seven rocks. The villages believed that they must be the seven sisters. The rocks were then named Tsat Tsz Mui Shek (), Seven Sister Rocks, and the village Tsat Tsz Mui Tsuen (), Seven Sister Village.
In 1934, the rocks were buried under the reclamation
Reclaim, reclaimed, reclaimer, reclaiming or reclamation means "to get something back".
It may refer to:
* Land reclamation, creating new land from oceans, riverbeds, or lake beds
* Dedesertification, reversing of the land degradation in arid ...
for urban development.
History
The 1819 edition of the ''Gazetteer of Xin'an County
''Xin'an Xianzhi'' (; literally ''Gazetteers of Xin'an County'') were the chorography of the historical Xin'an County (San-On or Sun-On County; literally ''New Peace County''; known at times as the Po-On County (spelt Bao'an in pinyin)) of Guang ...
'' () did not mention Tsat Tsz Mui, however, local residents emphasized Tsat Tsz Mui Village existed for hundreds of years. According to the census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
in 1849, Tsat Tsz Mui Tsuen had over two hundred inhabitants and over one hundred houses. It was also a popular swimming spot.
At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Tsat Tsz Mui was 297. The number of males was 193.
A large residential property named 'Seven Sisters' was built on the hillside above present-day North Point in approximately 1923.
Housing
Twopublic housing estates
Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authorities, government authority, either central or local. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the d ...
are located in Tsat Tsz Mui: Model Housing Estate, the oldest existing public housing estate in Hong Kong,/ref> with several blocks completed in 1954, and
Healthy Village
Healthy Village is a public housing estate and Flat-for-Sale Scheme estate in Tsat Tsz Mui, Hong Kong, developed by the Hong Kong Housing Society. It is divided into 3 phases and located at Tsat Tsz Mui Road (Redeveloped Phase 1, flat for r ...
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See also
*Tin Chiu Street
Tin Chiu Street () is a street in Tsat Tsz Mui of North Point in Hong Kong.
Location
Tin Chiu Street runs south to north, from the base of the hill to Victoria Harbour. The street starts at the junction of Tanner Road and Kai Yuen Street. It ...
References
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