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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1988

CONSENSUS

AS TO WHY HAU BCHOLARS HAVE YET TO REACH A TEMPLES ARE ALSO KNOWN AS YEUNG HAU KUNG, OR YEUNG HAU WONG KUNG,

WONG

YANG

CLAIM THAT THE HAU THE POPULAR INTERPRETATION IS BASED ON A

MARQUIS WONG TEMPLE AT KOWLOON CITY WAS BUILT IN MEMORY OF THE LIANG-JIE, A SUNG GENERAL WHO GAVE UP HIS LIFE TO PROTECT THE SUNG EMPEROR, AFTER THE FINAL DEFEAT BY MONGOL INVADERS IN 1278.

AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW IS THAT THE TEMPLES WERE BUILT BY THE FAMILY IN THE WORSHIP OF THEIR FOREFATHERS WHO WERE RELATIVES AS AS LOYAL SUPPORTERS OF THE SUNG EMPERORS, AND SO APPEARS ON THE NAME BOARD OF THE TEMPLES.

OF

THE CHARACTER

LAST

YANG

WELL YANG

THROUGHOUT HONG KONG G

TEMPLES MAINTAINS

AN

THE HAU WONG CULT HAS BEEN WIDESPREAD

WONG HAU HISTORY

THE PRESERVATION AND IMPORTANT FACET OF THE COMMUNITY'S HERITAGE.

POPULAR

WORSHIP OF THE

HAU

WONG

DEITY WAS

CRIGINALLY

ISLAND,

ASSOCIATED WITH A MILITARY PRESENCE IN THE AREA, SUCH AS THE HAU WONG TEMPLES AT KOWLOON CITY AND AT TUNG CHUNG AND TAI O ON LANTAU WHICH WERE WELL PATRONISED BY SOLDIERS STATIONED IN THESE AREAS.

58 PRISONERS RECEIVE CERTIFICATES

FIFTY-EIGHT PRISONERS TODAY

(TUESDAY) RECEIVED CERTIFICATES COMPLETING CERTIFICATE COURSES

FOR PASSING PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS AND RUN BY THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.

LAM WAI-KEUNG, OFFICIATED AT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEMBER, MR THE PRESENTATION CEREMONY HELD IN SHEK PIK PRISON ON LANTAU.

PITMAN

THE FOR

THE EXAMINATION, AMONG THEM, 43 INMATES SAT

EXAMINATION AND THE HONG KONG CITY AND GUILDS OF LONDON INSTITUTE

AND PASSES CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION EXAMINATION. THEY SCORED CREDITS IN ARITHMETIC, ENGLISH AND BOOK-KEEPING.

ANOTHER

15

WERE PRISONERS

FOR

EXTRAMURA....

PRESENTED CERTIFICATES

THE COMPLETING A CERTIFICATE PAINTING COURSE OFFERED BY STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.

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