NOTES AND QUIRIES
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Fuk Tak Temple **
Tai O Market- No information.
The number of temples found in each area is as follows
1. Mui Wo-2
6. Tsin Yu Wan-1
11. Sha Lo Wan-1
2. Pui O-4
7. Yi O-1
12. Tung Chung 3
3. Tong Fuk-2
8. Tai O-7
13. Tai Pak - 1
4. Shek Pik-3
9. Keung Shan- 1
14. Nim Shue Wan-1
5. Fan Lau-2 10. San Shek Wan-1
15. Chak Lap Kok-1
Hong Kong, March 1980
ANTHONY K.K. SIU
THE KOWLOON WALLED CITY
The Kowloon Walled City was situated to the north of the present Kai Tak Airport. It had been the most important military base in Hong Kong during the later Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911).
At the beginning of the Ch'ing period, there was no walled city. In the 7th year of the K'ang Hsi reign (1668), there was only a watchpost, called the 6, recorded as having thirty guards. Fourteen years later, in the 21st year of Kang Hsi (1682), the number of guards was reduced to only ten, and the post was turned into the Kowloon guard-station. This Kowloon guard-station, with only ten soldiers, was still in existence up to the 16th year of the Chia Ch'ing reign (1811)
1
During the 15th year of the Chia Ch'ing reign (1810), the Fat Tong Mun Fort # was evacuated, and a new fort was built on the coast of Kowloon. This was the Kowloon Fort #. Its garrison was forty-eight men, under one pa-tsung and one ngai-wai.
After the 22nd year of the Tao Kuang reign (1843), Hong Kong Island was under British rule. In order to strengthen the fortification of Kowloon, a walled city was built in the 27th year of Tao Kuang (1847). This was the Kowloon Walled City
* See JHKBRAS 19 (1979)· 209-210.