Wong Mo Ying

Wong Mo Ying
Wong Mo Ying
Traditional Chinese	黃毛應
Simplified Chinese	黄毛应
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Huáng Máo Ying?
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	wong4 mou4 jing?

Rosary Mission Centre (玫瑰小堂), a chapel built in 1940 in 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.

History[]

Wong Mo Ying is a Hakka village which was populated by inhabitants with the surname Tang (鄧), originally from (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 (東江縱隊港九獨立大隊) under the People's Anti-Japanese Principal Guerrilla Force of Guangdong, or Dongjiang Guerrilla Force, was established in Wong Mo Ying Church.^[1]^[2]^[3] The chapel is listed as a Grade II historic building.^[4]

References[]

^ ^a ^b Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Rosary Mission Centre, No. 1 Wong Mo Ying
^ Chan, Sui-jeung (2009). East River Column: Hong Kong Guerrillas in the Second World War and After. Hong Kong University Press. p. 85. ISBN 9789622098503.
^ 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).
^ Antiquities Advisory Board. List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings with Assessment Results