THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1994
26
LEGCO MEMBERS ON HERITAGE TOUR
SIX
TOOK
DURING
A
VISIT
IN A ΤΟ
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS TODAY (THURSDAY) ANCIENT STRUCTURES
NUMBER OF
HISTORICAL SITES IN YUEN LONG.
AND
MONUMENTS
MO-CHI,
THE MEMBERS ARE MR MAN SAI-CHEONG, MR MOSES CHENG TIMOTHY HA WING-HO, MR SIMON IP SIK-ON, MS EMILY LAU WAI-HING AND HOWARD YOUNG.
MR
MR
JAMES So, THE RACHEL CARTLAND, THE
THE SECRETARY FOR RECREATION AND CULTURE, MR COMMISSIONER FOR RECREATION AND CULTURE, MRS ACTING DIRECTOR OF ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES, MR SH PAU AND THE CHAIRMAN
ALSO JOINED THEM. OF THE ANTIQUITIES ADVISORY BOARD, MR DAVID LUNG,
LONG OLD THEY VISITED THE PING SHAN HERITAGE TRAIL, THE YUEN
KNOWLEDGE OF HERITAGE MARKET AND TAI FU TAI TO ACQUIRE FIRST-HAND PRESERVATION IN THE TERRITORY.
THE PING SHAN HERITAGE TRAIL, THE FIRST OF ITS KIND KONG, WAS INAUGURATED IN DECEMBER 1993.
IN HONG
LOCATED AT PING SHAN, YUEN LONG, THE ONE-KILOMETRE-LONG
A NUMBER OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE STRUCTURES PROVIDING
WITH AN INSIGHT INTO
VISITORS
TRAIL
WITHIN WALKING THE SOCIAL AND
LINKS UP DISTANCE, CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE NEW TERRITORIES DURING THE PAST CENTURIES IN A CONVENIENT HALF-DAY EXCURSION.
SINCE
WAS IT
OPENED, THE TRAIL PATRONISED BY BOTH TOURISTS AND LOCALS.
BEEN HAS
EXCEEDINGLY WELL
238, 769 PEOPLE HAD VISITED BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER THIS YEAR, THE TRAIL AT A MONTHLY AVERAGE FIGURE OF 25,134.
WAS
YUEN LONG OLD MARKET, A TYPICAL TRADITIONAL MARKET PLACE, FIRST SET UP IN 1669.
ALTHOUGH SOME OLD BUILDINGS IN THE AREA HAVE BEEN DEMOLISHED TO MAKE WAY FOR REDEVELOPMENT, THE ORIGINAL LAYOUT OF THE MARKET HAS BEEN LARGELY MAINTAINED.
AS A
YI
REMNANTS OF TWO GATE HOUSES, EARTH GOD SHRINES, AS WELL NUMBER OF HISTORICAL BUILDINGS LIKE THE TAI WONG TEMPLE, YUEN KWAN
YICK TSAN (INN) STILL ΤΑΙ TEMPLE,
PAWN SHOP AND TUNG CHUN YUEN
SURVIVE.
BY MAN
TAI FU TAI WAS BUILT PROBABLY IN 1865 AS A RESIDENCE CHUNG-LUEN WHOSE ANCESTORS HAD SETTLED IN SAN TIN, YUEN LONG SINCE THE 15TH CENTURY.
ONE OF THE BEST TRADITIONAL KONG, RENOWNED
ITS FOR
FINE
THE BUILDING
CONSIDERED IS
HONG BUILT IN RESIDENCES EVER ARCHITECTURAL DECORATIONS.
THE HOUSE HAS BEEN OPENED TO THE PUBLIC COMPLETION OF AN EXTENSIVE RESTORATION.
SINCE 1988, AFTER
/THE LEGCO