Tai Hang (Tai Po)

History

• The villagers of the Tai Hang Village were mainly the members of the Man clan.
• The original member of the Man clan in Tat Hang was the relatives of Wen Tianxiang, the Duke and the scholar-general of the Song Dynasty in China.
• When the Mongolia invaded the Song Dynasty, Wen fled to the South with his family and the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.
• At first, the family of Wen stayed in Dongguan but then they moved to the New Territories in Hong Kong.
• Because of the historic background, Wen Tianxiang is commemorated through his sculpture and an inscription of one of his writings located in the village.

  Features

• The Tai Hang Village is formed by the "Two Wai One Village", which consists of two walled villages, Chung Sum Wai and Fui Sha Wai, and the village of an ancestral hall. The wall has been listed as the Grade III historic buildings in Hong Kong.
• It contains the largest number of traditional village schools in the Tai Po District. For example, the "藝沅學校", "善慶書室", "叢桂書室" and "正倫書室" were built in the Qing Dynasty and their remains still exist in the village.
• Two old temples in the village, Tin Hau Temple and the Man Tai Temple, were built in the Qing Dynasty and several relics are still kept in the temples.
• The old trees outside the temples formed a double trunk and hid the sculpture of the god of marriage between them. It shows the linkage between the gods and hidden messages of the double trunk, the inseparable love.
• The sculpture of Wen Tianxiang and the inscription of his literature in the Man Shan Park.

  Festival

Transportation

• Take KMB Route 73 at Tai Po Industrial Estate Station and get off at Tai Hang Village.
• Take minibus 25A at Tai Wo station, get off at the Tai Hang Village Office.