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Yau Yat Tsuen 又一村 | |
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Area | |
 Tat Chee Avenue, the main road in Yau Yat Tsuen | |
  Yau Yat Tsuen | |
| Coordinates: 22°19′51″N114°10′26″E / 22.33083°N 114.17389°E | |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Region | Kowloon |
| District | Sham Shui Po |
| Founded by | Yu Tat Chi[ clarification needed ] |
| Government | |
| • Type | District Council |
| • Councillor | Dominic Lee Tsz-king (Liberal) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 16,484 |
| Time zone | UTC+08:00 (HKT) |
Naming
The area's name comes from a poem by Southern Song era poet Lu You, titled Touring Shanxi Village. [2] The name comes from the fourth verse in the poem (柳暗花明又一村; liǔ àn huā míng yòu yī cūn), which translates to Then out of the shade of the willows, came bright flowers and another village. Hence, the area's name literally translates to "another village".
Facilities
As a primarily residential area, there are relatively few services inside Yau Yat Tsuen. There is a small supermarket, a few property agents, a post office and a few other local stores. However a large shopping centre, Festival Walk, is on the edge of the village. It consists of 200 stores including a cinema and an ice-skating rink. The whole area of Yau Yat Tsuen is also within walking distance from the Kwun Tong line (Shek Kip Mei and Kowloon Tong) and East Rail line (Kowloon Tong) of MTR, the only mass transit railway operator of Hong Kong.
History
After the Second World War, affluent families built large detached houses in the area of Yau Yat Tsuen. Since then, it has been expanded and covers a much larger area. Along with the neighbouring Kowloon Tong and Beacon Hill, the area has some of the most exclusive and expensive residential properties in Kowloon.
Development
1970s
In the 1970s, some of the large houses were subdivided into approximately ten flats in each block. However, with high property prices in Hong Kong, these 3 or 4 bedroom flats, which tend to cost more than 7 million Hong Kong dollars, are still prohibitively expensive for a large section of the Hong Kong population.
1980s
In the 1980s, the large development scheme of Village Garden was constructed and more 1,000 to 2,400 square feet (93 to 223 m2) flats and houses were built.
1990s
In the early 1990s Yau Yat Tsuen continued to expand with the development of Parc Oasis, where more than twenty 10-storey blocks were developed. In 1992 the nearby Polytechnic gained University status and became the City University of Hong Kong.
Education
Yau Yat Tsuen is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 40. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and two government schools: Fuk Wing Street Government Primary School and Li Cheng Uk Government Primary School. [3]
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References
- ↑ "District Council Constituency Boundaries - Sham Shui Po District" (PDF). Hong Kong: Electoral Affairs Commission. January 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
- ↑ Lam, Wing Kin (12 May 2017). "【恒管清思】錯譯香港街名 泉水誤作春園" [Pure Thoughts from HSMC: Wrongfully translate Hong Kong's street name, "Spring Water" turns into "Spring Garden"]. Wen Wei Po (in Chinese). Retrieved 9 January 2019.
不少香港街道的取名卻饒有深意，甚或帶有相當中國文化色彩。如九龍塘著名住宅區「又一村」，其名稱固然是取自南宋詩人陸游名句「柳暗花明又一村」。(Many names for Hong Kong streets have rather deep meaning, and can even have Chinese cultural characteristics. For example, the famous Kowloon Tong residential area"Yau Yat Chuen", its name obviously came from Southern Song poet Lu You's famous phrase, "Then out of the shade of the willows, came bright flowers and another village.")
- ↑ "POA School Net 40" (PDF). Education Bureau . Retrieved 2022-09-12.
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| Traditional Chinese | 又一村 | ||||||||||
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Urban areas of Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Territories | ||
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| Hong Kong 1,3,4,5,6,7,8 |  | |
| Kowloon KL,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 | ||
| New Kowloon NKL,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 | ||
| New Territories | ||
Official place names are from "Hong Kong Guide" of Lands Department and "Hong Kong Guide Book" of Universal Publications Ltd. KL: Kowloon Peninsula at the south of Boundary Street NKL: Former New Territories area at the north of Boundary Street and at the south of Lion Rock 1: Common definition (1) 2: Common definition (2) 3: Common definition (3) 4: Areas not adopting small house concessionary right of indigenous inhabitants 5: Jurisdiction area of former Urban Council 6: Definition of "Metropolitan Area" of Planning Department 7: Jurisdiction area of Urban Renewal Authority 8: Unique operating area of urban taxis | ||