Sham Shek Tsuen

Sham Shek Tsuen (Chinese: 深石村) is a village on Lantau Island, Hong Kong.

History

Sham Shek Tsuen, named after the two local bays of Sham Wat and San Shek, was established in 1956. Most of its villagers came from Mainland China, primarily from Chaozhou and Shantou. Sham Shek was mostly mountainous, and there was not much flat land that could be used for rice cultivation. Moreover, rice cultivation in Hong Kong had gradually declined since the 1950s and 1960s, due to the influx of cheap white rice from other places (such as Australia and Thailand). Many farmers cultivating rice on Lantau Island thus abandoned farming, and some of them grew vegetables, raised livestock and planted fruit trees or operated orchards and pigsties instead.[1]

Access

Sham Shek Tsuen is located along Tung O Ancient Trail.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Agricultural Stories on Northwest Lantau". South Development and Sustainable Lantau Office. Civil Engineering and Development Department. Retrieved 2025-02-21.
  2. ^ "Deploying Design Thinking Approach in the Design on Revitalization of Tung O Ancient Trail and Nearby Villages (2020)". Sustainable Lantau Office of the Civil Engineering and Development Department.

Further reading

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sham Shek Tsuen.

22°16′39″N 113°53′27″E / 22.2775°N 113.890882°E / 22.2775; 113.890882


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.