What is the relationship between Weichun and Tin Shui Wai?

Most of the walled villages in Hong Kong are located in the New Territories. Most people living in the village are family. During the Ming Dynasty, coastal bandits were frequent. In order to protect themselves, residents built low stone walls around their houses to resist theft. At that time, Lao Wei in Longyuetou, Fanling was the earliest walled village in Hong Kong. In the early years of Qing Dynasty, the anti-Qing law enforcement in Taiwan was lax, and the coastal area was empty, which became the cave of Kou. After eight years of Kangxi (1669), residents were allowed to move back to their old places. When rebuilding their homes, they built high walls around them, dug rivers and installed iron gates to protect themselves. These villages surrounded by high walls are for today's Hong Kong.

There are still many ancient walled villages (or ancient houses) in the villages of the New Territories. There are two kinds of walled villages: local walled villages and Hakka walled villages.

The local enclosure is not inhabited by a family, but by people of the same family. Every family has a separate house, surrounded by high walls. The wall base is made of hemp stone, the wall is made of blue bricks, and there are gun holes in the four breast walls. The buildings in the enclosure pay attention to cleanliness and have obvious central axis. There is a moat outside the door to protect the city or plant thorns and bamboo forests. The enclosure door is a chain iron door or a wooden door.

Hakka walled village is a closed group of houses composed of many houses, and the walls of some horizontal houses are the walls of walled villages. Some closed houses have watchtowers at the four corners. The construction of these villages reflects that in the early years, especially in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, local pirates were rampant and public security was not good.

The earliest walled villages were Nanweihe built by Deng in the Northern Song Dynasty, but they have disappeared. Among the walled villages that have been preserved so far, the most famous are Ji Ching Wai in Kam Tin, Yuen Long and Jinlong Wai in lung yeuk tau, Fanling. Jintian Qing Ji enclosure was built in Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty (about1mid-3rd century), which is the best preserved enclosure and architectural pattern. 1899 When the residents of the New Territories armed against the British takeover, the British army snatched the interlocking iron gate in Jiqingwei, and it took more than 20 years to return it. Jinlongwei in Fanling was built in Qianlong for nine years (1744). The gatehouse is a rare binary building with unique structure and unique boat-shaped decoration on the front ridge of the roof.

The walled villages with high walls and deep ditches bear witness to the long years in the New Territories and depict the historical track of the development of the New Territories.

Tin Shui Wai is located in the northwest of Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong. Surrounded by Shajiangwei, Feng Jiawei, Wangjing Village, Xiawei New Village and other villages belonging to Pingshan Township Committee. It is about 25 kilometers away from the central city.

Tin Shui Wai was originally a walled village in Yuen Long. Like Nanshengwei, the surrounding area is a big fish pond (base). 1At the end of 1970, Tin Shui Wai Development Co., Ltd., headed by Changjiang Industry, acquired the land assets of Tin Shui Wai and planned to develop Tin Shui Wai into a new town by itself.

From 65438 to the early 1980s, the British Hong Kong government intended to develop new towns to cope with population growth. 1982, the hong kong government reached an agreement with cheung kong industries. the British hong kong government announced the acquisition of all the land in tin shui wai, and the British hong kong government changed to develop the new town of tin shui wai, which is one of the developed towns. 1At the end of 1980, the British Hong Kong government started the development of the new town in Tin Shui Wai. The surrounding fish ponds have been filled in and developed into a new town with houses as the main part.

1992, Tianyao Village, the first public housing village in Tin Shui Wai; Then Tianrui Village was completed on 1993. During the seven years from 199 1 to 1998, the properties of Jiahu Mountain Villa developed by Changjiang Industry have been moved in one after another. In the early days, Lejuju and Tianyao Village were the central areas of Tin Shui Wai. With the opening of 1999 Haiyi kingswood ginza and Jiahu, Tin Shui Wai Park and kingswood ginza have become the centers of new towns. 1998 In the first half of the year, the Tai Lam Tunnel was officially opened to traffic. Since then, residents in Tin Shui Wai do not have to rely on Tuen Mun Highway or Tate's Cairn Tunnel to travel to and from the urban area. In addition, the development of the southern part of Tin Shui Wai has been basically completed, and now it has become a very prosperous community.

The development of Tin Shui Wai North began at 1998. As Tung Chee-hwa, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, put forward the policy of building 85,000 flats a year in the policy address, the height and density of public housing buildings in the north of Tin Shui Wai are much higher than those in the south. Tin Chung Court and Tianhua Village were occupied on 1999. The next few years will be the peak period for the occupation of the North House in Tin Shui Wai. The population has increased dramatically. In 200 1 year, the population of this area has reached 270,000.

At the beginning of 2003, during the outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong, four buildings in Tianen Village were used as temporary dormitories for medical staff by the Hong Kong government. In 2004, it was transformed from transit housing to public housing.

The extension of the Kowloon-Canton Railway (now called the West Line of Metro) and the Kowloon-Canton Light Rail (now called the Light Rail) were opened to traffic at the end of 2003. The external traffic in Tin Shui Wai has been greatly improved. In 2006, the Hong Kong Wetland Park, located in the northeast of the new town of Tin Shui Wai, was officially opened, adding a new tourist attraction to the area.