Au Ha () is a
Hakka
The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka-speaking Chinese, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas, are a southern Han Chinese subgroup whose principal settlements and ancestral homes are dispersed widely across the provinces of southern China ...
village in northern
New Territories
The New Territories (N.T., Traditional Chinese characters, Chinese: ) is one of the three areas of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of H ...
in Hong Kong. Au Ha is located on the south side of
Sha Tau Kok Road
Sha Tau Kok Road () is a road connecting Sha Tau Kok and Fanling in the New Territories, Hong Kong. It is the only road access to Sha Tau Kok from the rest of Hong Kong since its construction in 1927. The road replaced Sha Tau Kok Railway as the ...
(Wo Hang Section) between
Fanling
Fanling ( zh, t=粉嶺; also spelled Fan Ling or Fan Leng) is a town in the New Territories East of Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the North District. Fanling Town is the main settlement of the Fanling area. The name Fanling is ...
and
Sha Tau Kok
Sha Tau Kok () is a closed town in North District, Hong Kong. It is the last remaining major settlement in the Frontier Closed Area and is Hong Kong's northernmost town. Its residents are mostly descendants of Hakka farmers and Hoklo fisher ...
, north of
Sheung Wo Hang and west of
Ha Wo Hang. Its name means "below the mountain pass" in
Cantonese
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While th ...
.
Administration
Au Ha is a recognized village under the
New Territories
The New Territories (N.T., Traditional Chinese characters, Chinese: ) is one of the three areas of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of H ...
Small House Policy
The Small House Policy (SHP, ) was introduced in 1972 in Hong Kong. The objective was to improve the then prevailing low standard of housing in the rural areas of the New Territories. The policy allows an indigenous male villager who is 18 ye ...
. It is one of the villages represented within the Sha Tau Kok District Rural Committee. For electoral purposes, Au Ha is part of the
Sha Ta constituency, which is currently represented by Ko Wai-kei.
History
The villages of
Ma Tseuk Leng (upper and lower),
Yim Tso Ha,
Wu Shek Kok and Au Ha formed a ''yeuk'' (, a form of oath-sworn, inter-village, mutual-aid alliance.
See also
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Sha Tau Kok Railway
The Sha Tau Kok Branch (Chinese language, Chinese: 沙頭角支綫) was a narrow-gauge light rail operated by the Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation, running from Fanling station, Fanling to Sha Tau Kok in the northern New Territories of Hong ...
References
External links
Delineation of area of existing village Au Ha (Sha Tau Kok) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
Villages in North District, Hong Kong
Sha Tau Kok
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