Tuen Mun lies in the Western part of the New Territories.
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Tuen Tsz Wai village contains a temple worth the visit with an old
altar and Chinese deities statues.
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| Tuen Tsz Wai |
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Since 1960s, once-outlying Tuen Mun town has witnessed important urban growth, shifting away from a functions as market town and becoming major residential, shopping, and industrial city surrounded by green belts. Tuen Mun is connected to the urban districts of Kowloon and Hong Kong Island by KCR train and bus.
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Tsuen Tsz Wai village contains a temple worth the visit with an old
altar and Chinese deities statues.
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| Tuen Tsz Wai |
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Tuen Mun has 32 villages, including Tuen Tsz Wai.
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Like many villages in the New Territories, Tuen Tsz Wai village contains a few
very old traditional Chinese houses.
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| Tuen Tsz Wai |
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This old traditional Chinese house is unfortunately in bad condition.
The external architecture is still in good shape but the vegetation has grown heavily
as the house is unoccupied since many years.
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| Tuen Tsz Wai |
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Many villages in New Territories have entrance gate.
it is flanked with a pair of Guardian Lions. The lions made of stone are situated on both sides
of the main entrance gate. The lion on the left is female and has a cub under her paw.
The lion on the right is male and has a pearl under his paw.
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| Village entrance gate |
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Many villages in New Territories have entrance gate. Before villages still
employed watchmen. The watchmen patrolled the lanes inside the village and also
the area around the village. Their duty is to keep watch and to assure local security
in the village.
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| Village entrance gate |
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Tsing Chuen Wai village is next to Tuen Tsz Wai village. Tsing Chuen Wai is an old walled village.
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Tsing Chuen Wai name came from the fact that the village is surrounded by protective walls
made of green bricks. Tsing Chuen Wai is mainly populated by the To Clan. The Tin Hau Temple and the
Ancestral Hall in the village have great historical value.
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| Tsing Chuen Wai entrance |
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A walled village is usually ending in "wai" and a village without walls is usually ending in "tsuen".
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The only surviving portion of the original green-brick boundary wall is at the main entrance of the
village. This corner is 6m in height, 8m in length towards southeast and 7m towards northeast. There are
five loopholes left on the southeastern wall.
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| Tsing Chuen Wai boundary wall |
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The size of the wall bricks is generally 29cm x 13cm x 7cm, the typical size of bricks made in Hong Kong during the Ming period. The bricks show high quality of making and firing. Many cracks can be observed on both sides of the remaining corner.
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Tsing Chuen Wai elderly villagers gather to chat, rest, watch TV, play mahjong or
Chinese chess.
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| Tsing Chuen Wai |
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Beautiful decorated door panel from a traditional Chinese house.
Tsing Chuen Wai has a lot of historical buildings and relics.
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| Tsing Chuen Wai |
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Beautiful decorated door panel from a traditional Chinese house.
Tsing Chuen Wa is a rural village with an ancient history.
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The Tsing Chuen Wai site has also uncovered abundant Song and Ming ceramic deposits.
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Tuen Tsz Wai modern ancestor hall contains many ancestors' old pictures, the dragon
or lion dance equipment, the 'Fa Pau' or floral paper offerings to be used for Tin Hau festival.
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| Tuen Tsz Wai |
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