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In the Yudiiue 輿地略 [Chapter on geography], Xin’an xian zhi 新安縣志 [Xin’an County
Gazetteer] complied in the 24 th year of Jiaqing 嘉慶 era (1819), there are seven villages recorded.
They are,
圓岡村、上村村、橫台山、長莆、上下輋(上輋和下輋二村)、馬鞍崗 21
Yuen Kong Tsuen, Sheung Tsuen Tsuen, Wang Toi Shan, Cheung Po, Sheung Ha Che
(two villages namely Sheung Che and Ha Che), Ma On Kong.
Just two villages in Pat Heung are founded in the Guangdong tushuo 廣東圖說 [Illustrated
Affairs of Guangdong Province] in 1909, they are Yuen Kong 元崗 and Ma On Kong 馬鞍崗, it
reads,
二都城東四十里內有小村十九屬九龍司者十三曰….元岡。
七都城東北五十里內有小村二百六十四屬九龍司者一百四十五曰……馬鞍崗。 22
Far from the east of second city from forty miles, there are nineteen small villages and
thirteen were under Kowloon……Yuen Kong.
Far from the northeast of seventh city from fifty miles, there are two hundred and sixtyfour
small villages and one hundred and forty-five were under Kowloon...... Ma On Kong.
In the map drawn in 1866 (Fig. 5), 1896 (Fig. 6) and 1897 (Fig. 7) showing several villages
in Pat Heung Area, they are Ma On Kong 馬鞍崗, Cheung Po 長莆, Un Kong 圓崗, Lin Fa Ti
蓮花地, Shik Tau Wai 石頭圍, Sheung Tsuen 上村, Lui Kung Tin 雷公田, Wang Toi Shan 橫
台山, Sheung Tsia 上輋, Ha Tsia 下輋. It is believed that numerous villagers had resided in Pat
Heung in Qing Dynasty.
20 See Jin Wenmo 靳文謨 et al., Xin’an xian zhi 新安縣志 [The Record of Xin’an Province], 1688, juan 3, chapter on
geography, p.32, see edition in microfilm copy kept by The University Hong Kong.
21 Wong Chongxi 王崇熙, Xin’an xian zhi 新安縣志 [Xin’an County Gazetteer], juan 2, chapter on the geography,
1819, pp. 11-13, see edition in Hong Kong, s.n., 1979, pp. 34-38.
22 Gui Wencan 桂文燦 et al., Guangdong tushuo 廣東圖說 [Diagram and Explanation of Guangdong Province],
1862-74, juan 13, 1909, pp. 10-11, see edition in Taibei, Chengwen chubanshe 成文出版社, 1967, pp. 152-153.