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Continuously to the present, since elders in both communities were boys and reportedly before, worship of these heroes has been carried out twice a year, at the times of the first and second padi harvests (described as 春分*). It even continued throughout the Japanese Occupation, a hard time when traditional practices were sometimes dispensed with and not taken up again. Such practices, whilst tending to keep each community together, also had the effect of perpetuating a rift; and the existence of such shrines did nothing to reduce the endemic bickering that characterized much of local society at that time.
NOTES
1 Sessional Papers 1928 (see the District Officer North's report which follows at Part C to the Notes for this Visit).
2 See Gazetteer of Place Names in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories (Hong Kong Government Printer, n.d. but circa 1960): 148-152.
3 Copies of genealogies of the Cheng (#) Tang (*) and some other local lineages have been recently deposited in the Chinese Library, University of Hong Kong.
4 They also went to Tai Po Market and to North West Kowloon.
5 YEUNG Kwok-shui (#) of Yeung Uk, a small single lineage settled since the Ch'ien Lung period.
6 Local place name of the district city of Hsin-an.
7 Gazetteer: 154.
* Gazetteer: 150. Lo Wai is claimed to be the oldest of the Tsuen Wan villages.
9 See e.g. G. N. Orme's Report on the New Territory 1899-1912 in the Hong Kong Government's Sessional Papers 1912: paras 58-60; and the file CSD1903 Ext/17, minutes of 6 April and 5 May 1905 in Public Records Office of Hong Kong.
10 Gazetteer: 150-151.
11 GR.
12 Shek Lei Pui (†) was the name of a village moved to Sha Tin in the 1920s to make way for an extension to the Kowloon Reservoir. See H.K. Government's Administrative Reports 1924, page Q146, para. 4.
13 Gazetteer: 151.
14 The Tin Hau Temple inscription says a wooden tablet, worshipped for 70 years.
15 of Sam Tung Uk, Chairman of the Tsuen Wan Rural Committee and Chairman of the New Territories Heung Yee Kuk, died 15th October, 1956: para. 119 of District Commissioner, New Territories' Annual Departmental Report 1956-57.
16 From the names listed it seems likely that, as stated by informants, friends and relatives of the Shing Mun people from the Pat Heung (Gazetteer: 170) aided them in the war against Tsuen Wan.
17 According to the Tsuen Wan tablet, the fighting took place with sharp weapons. (i).
18 This name was a purely Shing Mun description and does not appear in Gazetteer which only refers to the other Pat Heung to the north.
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Continuously to the present, since elders in both communities were boys and reportedly before, worship of these heroes has been carried out twice a year, at the times of the first and second padi harvests (described as and *). It even continued through-
春分 out the Japanese Occupation, a hard time when traditional practices were sometimes dispensed with and not taken up again. Such practices, whilst tending to keep each community together, also had the effect of perpetuating a rift; and the existence of such shrines did nothing to reduce the endemic bickering that characterized much of local society at that time.
NOTES
1 Sessional Papers 1928 (see the District Officer North's report which follows at Part C to the Notes for this Visit).
2 See Gazetteer of Place Names in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories (Hong Kong Government Printer, n.d. but e 1960): 148-152.
3 Copies of genealogies of the Cheng (#) Tang (*) and some other local lineages have been recently deposited in the Chinese Library, Univer- sity of Hong Kong.
4 They also went to Tai Po Market and to North West Kowloon.
5 YEUNG Kwok-shui (#) of Yeung Uk, a small single lineage settled since the Ch'ien Lung period.
6 Local place name of the district city of Hsin-an.
7 Gazetteer: 154.
* Gazetteer: 150. Lo Wai is claimed to be the oldest of the Tsuen Wan villages.
9 See e.g. G. N. Orme's Report on the New Territory 1899-1912 in the Hong Kong Government's Sessional Papers 1912: paras 58-60; and the file CSD 1903 Ext/17, minutes of 6 April and 5 May 1905 in Public Records Office of Hong Kong.
10 Gazetteer: 150-151.
11 GR.
12 Shek Lei Pui (44† ) was the name of a village moved to Sha Tin in the 1920s to make way for an extension to the Kowloon Reservoir. See H.K. Government's Administrative Reports 1924, page Q 146, para. 4.
13 Gazetteer: 151.
14 The Tin Hau Temple inscription says a wooden tablet, worshipped for 70 years.
15 of Sam Tung Uk, Chairman of the Tsuen Wan Rural Committee and Chairman of the New Territories Heung Yee Kuk, died 15th October, 1956: para. 119 of District Commissioner, New Territories' Annual Depart- mental Report 1956-57,
16 From the names listed it seems likely that, as stated by informants, friends and relatives of the Shing Mun people from the Pat Heung (Gazetteer: 170) aided them in the war against Tsuen Wan.
17 According to the Tsuen Wan tablet, the fighting took place with sharp weapons. (i).
18 This name was a purely Shing Mun description and does not appear in Gazetteer which only refers to the other Pat Heung to the north.
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