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The Tang Chung Ling Ancestral Hall (鄧松嶺祠堂) is the main ancestral hall of the Tang Clan of Lung Yeuk Tau. It is one of the largest ancestral halls in Hong Kong , it was built in the early 16th century in memory of the founding ancestor, Tang Chung Ling ( 鄧松嶺 ) (1303–1387), the sixth generation descendant of the clan.
For once, Hong Kong appeared in history books as Tuen Mun, a district now located in the southwestern New Territories. In ancient China, Tuen Mun had multiple definitions. In this chapter, we will focus on Tuen Mun during the Tang Dynasty. After the Tang Dynasty, there was a period of chaos called the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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May 6, 2020 · The Tang clan. The Tangs are one of Hong Kong’s oldest families and can trace their lineage back 30 generations in Hong Kong and 86 generations in the Mainland.In China, their surname is romanised as Deng, and they originate from Jishui in the Jiangxi province, the first out of the Five Great Clans to settle in Hong Kong in the eleventh century.
Jun 29, 2023 · It was a fourth-generation ancestor, Tang Fu-hip, who first came to what is now Hong Kong when he settled in Kam Tin at the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279). Fu-hip’s great grandson of the seventh generation, Yuen-ching, moved west where he established the Ping Shan branch of the clan.
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he Tang clan of Lung Yeuk Tau, Loi Tung, Tai Po Tau, Ha Tsuen, and Kam Tin was the wealthiest and most prestigious of the New Territories clans. Their family history and legends have been much studied, but almost entirely with respect to the evidence from Kam Tin — to the extent that the Tang clan is often called “of Kam Tin” even though
Jul 26, 2022 · The ancestors of renowned Tang Clan, one of the great five major clans in the New Territories, initially moved to Guangdong from Jiangxi in Northern Song Dynasty as cities in southern China started to become prosperous. Later, the Tang Clan moved to Kam Tin in Hong Kong, and subsequently settled in the Ping Shan district about 800 years ago.
The civilizations of the Tang (618–906) and Song (960–1279) dynasties of China were among the most advanced civilizations in the world at the time. Discoveries in the realms of science, art, philosophy, and technology—combined with a curiosity about the world around them—provided the men and women of this period with a worldview and ...
