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Village in Shap Pat Heung, Yuen Long District, Hong Kong From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shan Pui Tsuen (Chinese: 山貝村) is a village in Shap Pat Heung, Yuen Long District, Hong Kong.
Shan Pui Tsuen is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.[1] For electoral purposes, Shan Pui Tsuen is located in the Shap Pat Heung North constituency of the Yuen Long District Council. It is currently represented by Shum Ho-kit, who was elected in the 2011 Yuen Long District Council Shap Pat Heung North Constituency elections.[2][3]
Shan Pui Tsuen is located north of a hill separating it from Yuen Long Kau Hui. A small boat near the village entrance serves as a ferry across the Kam Tin River towards Nam Sang Wai in the north.[4]
Shan Pui Tsuen was founded by Lam Siu-yuen (林兆元), a 13th generation member of the Lam Clan, who moved from Tai Wai Tsuen some 200 years ago.[5] Historically, the village was facing a large piece of fishing ponds.[6]
At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Shan Pui was 273. The number of males was 118.[7]
Shan Pui Tsuen is part of the Tung Tau alliance (東頭約)[8] or "Joint Meeting Group of Seven Villages", together with Nam Pin Wai, Tung Tau Tsuen, Choi Uk Tsuen, Ying Lung Wai, Wong Uk Tsuen and Tai Wai Tsuen.[9] The Yi Shing Temple in Wong Uk Tsuen is an alliance temple of the Tung Tau Alliance.[8]
Lam Ancestral Hall (林氏家祠), located at No. 157 Shan Pui Tsuen, in the eastern part of the village,[6] was probably built in the 19th century.[10] The building was used as the classrooms of a school for teaching village children in the 1930s-1960s, and as classrooms of a kindergarten in 1967–1968.[5]
Several old residential houses in the village are Qing vernacular buildings and are considered to have built heritage value.[11]
Shan Pui is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 74. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and one government school: Yuen Long Government Primary School (元朗官立小學).[12]
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