香港旅遊景點介紹---吉慶圍(Kat Hing Wai)

Just outside the town of Yuen Long is the Kat Hing Wai Walled Village, built about 400 years ago during the Ming dynasty. The rectangular-shaped village constructed mostly with blue brick walls, is still inhabited by the descendants of the Tang clan, one of the five big clans to settle in the New Territories. The villagers, Hakka people, who still wear wide-brimmed hats covered with black cloth, built walls around their villages to keep out rival clans and marauding bands of pirates.

The village has a fascinating history and a tour around is a great glimpse into the intriguing past of these settlers. Once upon a time, even tigers prowled this area. While some of the old houses have been replaced with more modern dwellings, this walled village features guardhouse towers and a moat.

When the British occupied the New Territories, the British army looted the village's iron gate and shipped it back to Britain. The British government returned it to Kat Hing Wai in 1924.
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如何前往吉慶圍╱錦田圍村
港鐵錦上路站B出口。
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吉慶圍位於新界元朗市鎮外沿,建於400年前的明朝年間(1600年),現在仍有新界五大望族之一的鄧氏後裔定居於此。吉慶圍的村民為了抵禦盜寇,修築圍牆。這些客家人,今天仍然習慣戴上寬邊黑帽。


在吉慶圍遊走一趟,可以窺探定居於此的村民的段段往事。曾幾何時,甚至有老虎在此出沒。雖然一些古舊的建築已被新建的現代樓房所取代,但吉慶圍仍然保留有極具特色的炮樓和護城河。


吉慶圍呈長方形,以青磚築成圍牆,保衛村民免受盜賊侵襲。吉慶圍曾一度為英軍佔領,村口精緻的鐵門被運往英國作戰利品。後來英國為表示友好,才於1924年將鐵門送還。村內有小廟,供奉了15位神祇。


錦田位於新界中部,群山環抱,西臨元朗平原,背靠雞公山(古稱桂角山),東望觀音山,東南為大帽山,面積達四平方里,土地肥沃,水源充足。鄉民有本地人也有客家人,以鄧氏為最大望族,擁有當地最富庶的土地,是新界五大族之一。


北宋崇寧二年(1103年),時任陽春縣縣令的江西吉水縣人鄧符赴官途經桂角山岑田村下,見當地山清水秀,便安家定居於此,築南圍(今水頭村)及北圍(今水尾村),並將前三世祖墓移於新界各風水龍脈。山貝村側有稱為「金鐘覆火」的風水名穴,下葬者為鄧族二世祖鄧粵冠。


鄧符亦於桂角山下築成「力瀛書院」,為香港史上第一間有稽可尋的私塾。鄧符又廣置書籍,聚友研學。嘉慶廿四年(1819年),王崇熙編纂《新安縣志》時,力瀛書院「基址尚存」。


據歷史記載,錦田鄧族第八世祖鄧自明娶宋朝皇姑為妻,受封為「稅院郡馬」,光耀門楣,傳為佳話。此後歷代子孫散居到八鄉、屏山、廈門、大埔及粉嶺龍躍頭等地。由於鄧氏得姓南陽,而鄧自明又為稅院郡馬,所以錦田的祠堂都貼有「南陽世澤,稅院家聲」的對聯。


錦田原名「岑田」。明朝萬曆十五年(1587年),新安縣西部遭逢大旱,飢荒成災,義倉耗盡仍不能解困,各鄉捐米之量有限,錦田鄧元勛慷慨捐出12萬斤賑災,知縣邱體乾至為感激,親自率船到岑田取糧並向鄧氏致謝,見岑田土地膏腴,遂易名「錦田」。
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How To Get There
Kat Hing Wai / Kam Tin Walled Village
MTR Kam Sheung Road Station Exit B.
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