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This article is based on the lecture delivered to the Society on 1st March, 1965. The material has, however, undergone rewriting, augmentation and excision, firstly for the purposes of a paper read to the Anthropology Colloquium of Cornell University in April 1965, and secondly to suit it for publication in this Journal. When the original lecture was given, I began by pointing out that I could give no more than an outline of the history and conditions of settlement and life of the Five Clans, and that much more work would have to be done on this topic before concrete conclusions could be drawn. I must stress again the tentative and sketchy nature of this article, offering it rather as an inducement to others to continue investigations than as a satisfactory piece of research.
Many statements made are unsubstantiated by footnotes, and it should be understood that in these cases I have drawn the material from oral sources and from my own observations during a residence of eighteen months in a village of one of the Five Clans. Chinese names and terms have been romanised according to their pronunciation in Cantonese.
1 Maurice Freedman, Lineage Organisation in Southeastern China, London, 1958; Preface,
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6 X.
7 *, A.D. 960-1127.
8 寶安錦田鄧氏族譜、“干開寶六年宦遊入廣.........遂即遷居于寶安
9. See Sung Hok-pang's articles in the Hong Kong Naturalist, Vols. VI and VII, "Legends and Stories of the New Territories", Parts III and IV, "Kam Tin", for a detailed account of the founding of this village. Strictly speaking, Kam Tin is an area rather than a village, but I shall refer to it as a village.
The population is given as 2,150 in A Gazetteer of Place Names in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories, Hong Kong, 1960. Population figures given below are also taken from this source, but they must be taken as a rough guide only, the Introduction to the Gazetteer warning that "the statistics are based on an unofficial census in 1955". Furthermore, the intervening decade has seen many changes in distribution and size of the population. In some cases the total population for one village is not given, and I have had to add together figures from component villages, which I may have selected too arbitrarily for accuracy.
10. Population 2,760.
11. Population 2,840.
12 AЯ. Population 660 including Tai Po Tau Lo Wai ✰ƒ¤★¤,
13 ★★A, also known as Lung Yeuk Tau. The name is that of a group of villages, an area; but I shall refer to this group as a village. Population 2,605, but only a small proportion are Tangs.
14 $*, A.D. 1127-1279.
15 ML, but frequently pronounced Wo Sheung Heung, and sometimes written #. Population 580.