Tai Po Market
Tai Po Market or Tai Po Hui (
History
The first Tai Po Hui (
The area around the two Tai Po market towns, as well as other minor market towns, were leased to the
However, the usage of Tai Po Hui / Tai Po Market also extended to area that covered that modern-day electoral constituency Tai Po Hui,[6] which included the 1960s built The Lane-Square in Tai Po , (or known as the "Four Lanes of Tai Po Market": Kwong Fuk Lane, Tai Wing Lane, Tai Kwong Lane and Tai Ming Lane), as well as Luk Heung San Tsuen . The railway station, also moved to the current site, east of the former place in the 1980s.
To add more confusion to the name, government also opened an indoor wet market, the Tai Po Hui Market and Cooked Food Centre (大埔墟街市及熟食中心), in Tai Po Complex in 2004, while its former location, was redeveloped into a public housing estate Po Heung Estate, where they are near to the Fu Shin Street. The two locations belong to the aforementioned Tai Po Hui constituency.[6]
Tai Po Market (Tai Po Hui, formerly Tai Wo Shi)
Tai Po Hui (大埔墟) | |
Native name | 富善街 (Chinese) |
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Former name(s) | Tai Wo Shi (太和市) |
Type | market town and walking street |
Location | Tai Po Town, Tai Po District, Hong Kong |
Coordinates | 22°26′53″N 114°9′53.5″E / 22.44806°N 114.164861°E |
Tai Wo Shi (Tai Wo Market), at modern day Fu Shin Street , was established in 1892.[7] The market town was later known as Tai Po Hui (Tai Po Market). The street currently consisted of post-Qing dynasty buildings, except a well and a Man Mo Temple.[7] The temple, at the heart of the Fu Shin Street, is a declared monument of Hong Kong. The former railway station of the market town, was converted into Hong Kong Railway Museum in the 1980s.
The market town Tai Wo Shi displaced the old Tai Po market town (Tang's Tai Po Hui) as the rural town centre of the area, which also took the ownership of the name Tai Po Hui (Tai Po Market). Some author credited the displacement was due to the accessibility of the new market.[8] The New Territories circular road passes through Tai Wo Shi as Kwong Fuk Road, which connects to Tai Po Road in the south and Lam Kam Road in the north in the past, was constructed in the colonial area of the New Territories.
As the main circular road was intended to facilitate the movement of troops, it avoided the centres of population. Of course, this new facility was just the thing to stimulate development.…At
the town of Tuen Mun, so a San Hui, or New Market, was built alongside the road. Similarly at Tai Po, the Old Market was found to be on the wrong side of the river…— Denis Bray, Hong Kong Metamorphosis (2001)[8]
Tai Po was one of the market towns that was selected to be expanded into a satellite town (new town) in 1972.[9]
Tai Po Old Market (Tai Po Kau Hui)
Tai Po Old Market (Tai Po Kau Hui), in Xin'an Xianzhi, was also listed as villages (as Tai Po Hui) along with
Administration
Tai Po Hui and Tai Po Kau Hui are recognized villages under the New Territories Small House Policy.[11]
See also
- Shenzhen (market town)
- Sha Tau Kok, another market town
- Luen Wo Hui, another market town
- Shek Wu Hui, another market town
- Tuen Mun Kau Hui
- Tuen Mun San Hui
- Yuen Long Kau Hui
- Sha Tin Market
- List of buildings, sites, and areas in Hong Kong
Footnotes
- Shenzhen(which had never been part of HK) were probably the two major market towns in Qing dynasty for the areas that covers the modern-day New Territories and the surrounding. He also stated Tai Po was the principal market town for the eastern New Territories at that time.
References
- ^ 地理志. 新安縣志 (in Literary Chinese) (Kangxi Year ed.). 1688.
- ^ a b 輿地圖. 新安縣志 (in Literary Chinese) (Jiaqing Year ed.). 1819.
- ^ 大埔示諭 (in Literary Chinese), Qing Government, 1892
- ISBN 0-19-583970-6.
- ^ a b Siu, Anthony Kwok Kin; 蕭國健 (2007). 歷史沿革. 大埔風物志 (PDF) (in Chinese (Hong Kong)) (revised ed.). Tai Po District Council. p. 15. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "District Council Election Constituency Boundaries – Tai Po District (Sheet 1)" (PDF). Electoral Affairs Commission. 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^ a b c d Siu, Anthony Kwok Kin; 蕭國健 (2007). 附錄. 大埔風物志 (PDF) (in Chinese (Hong Kong)) (revised ed.). Tai Po District Council. p. 165. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
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- ^ "Introduction". Market Towns (PDF) (scanned copy). New Territories Development Department of Public Works Department of Hong Kong Government. 1979 [n.d. on digital edition]. p. 1. Retrieved 26 December 2018 – via The University of Hong Kong Libraries.
- ^ Siu, Anthony Kwok Kin; 蕭國健 (2007). 古蹟文物. 大埔風物志 (PDF) (in Chinese (Hong Kong)) (revised ed.). Tai Po District Council. p. 96. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "List of Recognized Villages under the New Territories Small House Policy" (PDF). Lands Department. September 2009.