Nga Tsin Wai Tsuen) located in the new Pugang Dong Tau Tung Kwong Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Hong Kong's urban village is the only indigenous inhabitants still remaining, is facing clearance and redevelopment. Nga Tsin Wai Village is now known Kowloon Peninsula's oldest village, but (Lei Cheng Uk Estate may have been built as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty village, then the village was built earlier than the Nga Tsin Wai Village) its "Wai" is the general NT village such as Jin Tian Jiqing different circumference. New Territories village is built in an independent defense exterior wall outside the village, but the Nga Tsin Wai Village "Wai" is connected by the external walls of village houses together. According to local clan genealogy information, you can know Nga Tsin Wai built in time, between the years 1570 to 1574, has experienced more than 400 years of history.

history

Nga Tsin Wai Chen, Wu, Li Sanxing mainly villagers from the village moved to its present site along the Southern Song live, when the Yuan Dynasty (1352) village, named "Nga village", centuries to catch fish industry. When the Qing Hai ban, the village was abandoned until 1724, residents rebuild their homes at the site.

Today the village for San Po Kong, the former has not reclaimed, villagers often by pirates nuisance, so additions fence in the village, it is "Nga Tsin Wai Village," he said. It is the center of the village of Tin Hau Temple, built around the 18th century or earlier; village main entrance "to celebrate more than a" brand flat, villagers claimed to be the gift by the emperor, but not test.

Heyday, Sha Po Tsuen and Nga Tsin Wai Village, Nga Tsin Long Village, every Village, Shek Ku Lung village, Ta Village, Tai Hom Village, with a line, collectively known as "Nga Tsin Wai about seven", and which Nga Tsin Wai village to the public for the first village, but under the pressure of urban renewal, now have only Nga Tsin Wai village is preserved.

During World War II, the Japanese army near the village of Kai Tak airport expansion, once a demolition order Nga Tsin Wai Village, but after lobbying the villagers, village although fortunately Paul yet, but the walls are demolished, the walls of the fort were removed, and more ancient trees tree was cut down. About mid-20th century, they began to anyone outside his family moved to live in the village, the villagers also continue to be allocated units and move out of the village, the village since moving towards decline.

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