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TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1992
DEVELOPMENTS
PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING THE INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT, INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS AND INDUSTRIAL SAFETY MEASURES PUT UP.
OFFICIATING GUESTS ALSO INCLUDED REGIONAL COUNCIL MR CHEUNG YAN-LUNG; ACTING DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF INDUSTRY, FUNG; AND THE NORTH DISTRICT OFFICER, MR TIMOTHY TONG.
IN NORTH WILL BE
CHAIRMAN, MR RICKY
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YI TAI SHU YUEN DECLARED AS MONUMENT
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YI TAI SHU YUEN AT SHUI TAU VILLAGE, KAM TIN, NEW TERRITORIES, HAS BEEN DECLARED AS A HISTORICAL BUILDING UNDER THE MONUMENTS ORDINANCE.
ANTIQUITIES AND
A NOTICE TO THIS EFFECT WAS GAZETTED LAST FRIDAY (JUNE 26).
YI TAI SHU YUEN WAS BUILT BY THE TANG CLAN OF KAM TIN WHO SETTLED DOWN ON THIS FERTILE PLAIN IN THE 11TH CENTURY.
OF
THE BUILDING WAS BELIEVED TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN THE LAST YEARS THE REIGN OF DAO GUANG (1821-1850) TO ACCOMMODATE THE TWO IMMORTALS (YI TAI), MAN CHEONG AND KWAN ΤΑΙ (LITERARY AND MARTIAL GODS).
BOTH WERE ORIGINALLY WORSHIPPED IN A FUNG SHUI PAGODA NEARBY TO BOOST SCHOLARSHIP. THE PAGODA WAS LATER DEMOLISHED.
ERECTED
LATER, A GROUP OF 16 LOCAL SCHOLAR-GENTRY FORMED A SOCIETY, THE TANG YI TAI WUI, FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF A NEW STUDY HALL CALLED THE YI TAI SHU YUEN, WHICH WAS NAMED AFTER THE TWO IMMORTALS.
THE STUDY HALL WAS USED AS A PRIMARY SCHOOL WITH AN INTAKE OF ABOUT 30 STUDENTS EARLY THIS CENTURY.
IT WAS ABANDONED DURING THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION ALTHOUGH THE WORSHIP OF THE LITERARY AND MARTIAL GODS CONTINUED.
STILL THEN, THE BUILDING HAS LOST ITS POPULARITY AND WAS UNATTENDED IN RECENT YEARS.
YI TAI SHU YUEN WAS BUILT SOLELY FOR THE USE OF A STUDY HALL. ITS ARCHITECTURE IS THEREFORE SIMPLE AND FUNCTIONAL.
IT IS A TWO-HALL BUILDING OF GREEN
COURTYARD.
BRICKS WITH AN ENCLOSED
THE BUILDING IS RECTANGULAR IN INTERNAL LOAD-BEARING WALLS.
PLAN, WITH EXTERNAL AND
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