This is one example of study halls built purely for teaching purposes. Situated in the Hakka village of Sheung Wo Hang in Sha Tau Kok, it was built by the Li clan in the early Qing Dynasty. It was re-built in the Qianlong reign (1736-1795) and renamed Kang Yung Study Hall. It is a two hall building with cocklofts, providing classrooms and living quarters and comprises a rectangula structure of green brick walls, with unfired mud bricks and rammed earth for internal partition.
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Wan Chau, Yuen Long. It was originally built in 1718 for Hung Shing and Che Kung. The present building was erected in 1811. The building is a two-hall structure with an open courtyard in between.
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Situated in Sheung Shui, it was built in 1751. Styled in three-hall, two-courtyard, the building is embellished with plaster mouldings, wood carvings and murals of auspicious motifs and pictures. The tiled roofs are supported on stone and wooden columns, giving the impression of spaciousness.
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Tung Wah Museum was originally the Main Hall Building of Kwong Wah Hospital. Opened in 1911, it was the first hospital founded in Kowloon and the New Territories to provide medical services to the public.
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Due to long exposure to the weather, the lines are not very clear, resulting in arguments that whether these lines were the results of the erosion or man-made.
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