Wong Mo Ying
Wong Mo Ying (Chinese: 黃毛應) is a village in the Tai Mong Tsai area of Sai Kung District, Hong Kong.
Rosary Mission Centre (玫瑰小堂), a chapel built in 1940 in Wong Mo Ying.
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| Traditional Chinese | 黃毛應 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 黄毛应 | ||||||||||
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History
Wong Mo Ying is a Hakka village which was populated by inhabitants with the surname Tang (鄧), originally from Danshui (淡水) of Huizhou, who settled in Wong Mo Ying probably between the 1750s and the 1840s.[1]
Chapel
The Rosary Mission Centre (玫瑰小堂) 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][2]
References
- Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Rosary Mission Centre, No. 1 Wong Mo Ying
- Chen Daming, Hong Kong's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force (香港抗日游擊隊) (Hong Kong: Universal Press, 2000), pp. 26-27; Choi Chung Man, "Sai Kung People's Support for the Hong Kong-Kowloon Independent Company" (西貢人民對港九大隊的支持), 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 (活躍在 香江：港九大隊西貢地區抗日實錄) (Hong Kong: Joint Publishing, 1993), pp. 168-172. (References cited in The Tai Po Book, p. 205).
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