Starting point of the MacLehose Trail at Tsak Yue Wu.

Tsak Yue Wu (Chinese: 鯽魚湖), also transliterated as Chik Yu Wu and Tsik U Wu, is a village in Pak Tam Chung, Sai Kung Peninsula, Hong Kong.[1]

Administration

Tsak Yue Wu is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.[2]

History

Pak Tam Chung was described as consisting of six villages in 1911 with fewer than 405 inhabitants: Wong Yi Chau (黃宜洲), Pak Tam (北潭), Sheung Yiu (上窰), Tsak Yue Wu, Wong Keng Tei (黃麖地) and Tsam Chuk Wan. The six villages were all inhabited by Hakka people, with the exception of two hamlets in Pak Tam.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Hamilton, Eric; Schofield, Walter; Peplow, S. H.; Tsui, Paul; Coates, Austin; Hayes, James (2010). "Chapter 6. Sai Kung Peninsula". In Strickland, John (ed.). Southern District Officer Reports: Islands and Villages in Rural Hong Kong, 1910-60. Hong Kong University Press. p. 270. ISBN 9789888028382.
  2. ↑ "List of Recognized Villages under the New Territories Small House Policy" (PDF). Lands Department. September 2009.
  3. ↑ Faure, David (1986). The structure of Chinese rural society: lineage and village in the eastern New Territories, Hong Kong. Oxford University Press. p. 90. ISBN 9780195839708.
  4. ↑ Delang, Claudio O. (30 March 2018). "Local livelihoods and global process: complex causalities in Hong Kong's Sai Kung Peninsula". Miscellanea Geographica. 22 (1): 31–39. doi:10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0003. ISSN 2084-6118.
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