History
The area was once a center of porcelain industry in the New Territories.
The clans of Man and Tse began manufacturing the blue and white porcelain in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
In 1674 (the 13th year of Kangxi reign of the Qing dynasty), a Ma clan, Hakka people originally from Changle county, Guangdong, settled in Tai Po and purchased the kilns from the Man clan.
Because of the competition from good-quality and inexpensive porcelain produced by other coastal kilns in Guangdong, the kilns at Wun Yiu finally stopped operating in 1932.
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