Shek O Village
Shek O Village (石澳村) has a history of some 200 years. It was established by fishermen of the Chan, Yip, Li and Lau clans. In 1841, Shek O Village, together with Hok Tsui Village (鶴咀村) and Big Wave Village (大浪灣村), had a population of around 200. The Tin Hau Temple in Shek O Village was built in 1891. Its management has been delegated by the Chinese Temples Committee to the Shek O Residents Association. It is a Grade III historic building.
Read more about this topic: Shek O
Famous quotes containing the word village:
“A village seems thus, where its able-bodied men are all plowing the ocean together, as a common field. In North Truro the women and girls may sit at their doors, and see where their husbands and brothers are harvesting their mackerel fifteen or twenty miles off, on the sea, with hundreds of white harvest wagons, just as in the country the farmers’ wives sometimes see their husbands working in a distant hillside field. But the sound of no dinner-horn can reach the fisher’s ear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)