Ting Kok is the name of an area and a village in the northeastern part of

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. It is located on the northern shore of

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Tai Mei Tuk Tai Mei Tuk (officially known as in Chinese; formerly and still commonly known as ; also written as or ) is a place close to the Plover Cove Reservoir in the Tai Po District, New Territories, Hong Kong. Administration Tai Mei Tuk is a reco ...

. Administratively, it is part of

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, ...

Administration

Ting Kok 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 ...

. For electoral purposes, Ting Kok 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 of the

Tai Po District Council The Tai Po District Council () is the district council for the Tai Po District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Tai Po District Council currently consists of 21 members, of which the district is divided into 19 constituencies, el ...

. It was formerly represented by So Tat-leung, who was elected in the

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until October 2021.

History

Ting Kok Village, originally called Ting Kai (), was historically a multi-surname

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village founded before 1688. Historically, Ting Kok, 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

belonged to the Ting Kok Yeuk () alliance. In the 19th century, Ting Kok was the centre of the wider San On ()

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missionary district. It was also an established transit point used by missionaries on their way into

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. The mission was set up in 1866, and 19 residents were baptised as the first batch of local Catholics. At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Ting Kok was 669. The number of males was 301.

Built heritage

Built heritage in Ting Kok include: * Mo Tai Temple (). Built before 1785. Dedicated to

Kwan Tai Guan Yu (; ), courtesy name Yunchang, was a Chinese military general serving under the warlord Liu Bei during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. Along with Zhang Fei, he shared a brotherly relationship with Liu Bei and accompanied him on ...

aka. Mo Tai (). A Grade III historic building since 2010.

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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 ...

(). Built in the late 19th century. Not graded. There are more than 10 ancestral halls in the village. Most of them have been modernized.

Flora and fauna

mangrove A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water. The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species. Mangroves are taxonomically diverse, as a result of convergent evolution in severa ...

covers a coastal area of about seven hectares near Ting Kok Village. It is one of the few sites in Hong Kong where a large population of '' Lumnitzera racemosa'' can be found.

Conservation

A part of Ting Kok is within the

Pat Sin Leng Country Park Pat Sin Leng Country Park () is a country park in Hong Kong located in the northeastern New Territories. Established on 18August 1978, the country park covers of natural terrain. It comprises the Pat Sin Leng mountain range and other spurs, inclu ...

, and the Ting Kok wetlands have been declared a

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since 1985.

Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (; formerly the Agriculture and Fisheries Department () before 2000, of the Hong Kong Government is responsible for agriculture and fisheries in Hong Kong, conservation projects and iss ...

Pat Sin Leng Country Park
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