Wong Mo Ying Explained

Wong Mo Ying is a village in the Tai Mong Tsai area of Sai Kung District, Hong Kong.

Wong Mo Ying is a Hakka village which was populated by inhabitants with the surname Tang (Chinese: 鄧), originally from Danshui (Chinese: 淡水) of Huizhou, who settled in Wong Mo Ying probably between the 1750s and the 1840s.^[1]

Wong Mo Ying is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.^[2]

The Rosary Mission Centre is a chapel built in 1940 in Wong Mo Ying. On February 3, 1942, the Hong Kong-Kowloon Independent Battalion under the People's Anti-Japanese Principal Guerrilla Force of Guangdong, or Dongjiang Guerrilla Force, was established in Wong Mo Ying Church.^{[1] [3] [4]} The chapel is listed as a Grade II historic building.^[5]

Further reading

• Book: Hamilton. Eric. Schofield. Walter. Peplow. S. H.. Tsui. Paul. Coates. Austin. Austin Coates . Hayes. James. James W. Hayes. John. Strickland. Southern District Officer Reports: Islands and Villages in Rural Hong Kong, 1910-60. 2010. Hong Kong University Press. 9789888028382. 265-266 . Chapter 6. Sai Kung Peninsula.

External links

• Delineation of area of existing village Wong Mo Ying (Sai Kung) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
• Pictures of Rosary Mission Centre: https://www.aab.gov.hk/filemanager/aab/common/historicbuilding/photo/655_Photo.pdf https://archives.catholic.org.hk/Church%20Building/New%20Territories/CNT-RMC.htm

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Notes and References

1. [Antiquities Advisory Board]
2. Web site: List of Recognized Villages under the New Territories Small House Policy . September 2009 . .
3. Book: Chan, Sui-jeung . 2009 . East River Column: Hong Kong Guerrillas in the Second World War and After . . 85 . 9789622098503.
4. Chen Daming, Hong Kong's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force (Hong Kong: Universal Press, 2000), pp. 26-27; Choi Chung Man, "Sai Kung People's Support for the Hong Kong-Kowloon Independent Company", in Chui Yuet Ching, ed., Active in Hong Kong: A Record of Anti-Japanese Efforts of the Hong Kong-Kowloon Independent Battalion in Sai Kung (Hong Kong: Joint Publishing, 1993), pp. 168-172. (References cited in The Tai Po Book, p. 205).
5. [Antiquities Advisory Board]