The Bamboo Theatre of Hang Hau: A Stage Built for a Festival
At Hang Hau’s Tin Hau Festival, a temporary bamboo theatre made space for opera, while a unicorn dance invited the goddess into the village procession.
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Yim Tin Tsai: Salt, Chapel and a Village Remembered
Yim Tin Tsai’s salt-making past, Catholic chapel and restoration projects reveal an island shaped by migration and return.
Joss House Bay: Tin Hau beside the Sea
Joss House Bay’s Tin Hau Temple preserves a rare seashore setting and a living connection to fishermen and seafarers. The temple’s architecture and annual worship draw on the bay’s maritime geography.
Kau Sai’s Hung Shing Festival and Jiao
At Kau Sai, a Jiao on the day before the Hung Shing Festival leads into two days of ritual, Cantonese opera and community gatherings.
Hang Hau’s Hakka Unicorn Dance
Practised in Hang Hau for more than two centuries, the Hakka unicorn dance brings a village tradition of movement and music into Sai Kung’s cultural life.
Hoi Ha Wan’s Lime Kilns and Coastal Industry
Four lime kilns once operated on Hoi Ha Wan’s eastern shore. Their surviving structures connect a historic shell-and-coral industry with the bay’s protected marine landscape.
Hexagonal Columns on Sai Kung’s Volcanic Coast
Sai Kung’s volcanic-rock region is known for extensive fields of hexagonal columns, distinct from the sedimentary landscapes of the northeast.
Salt and Light on Yim Tin Tsai
The island’s restored saltpans and St Joseph’s Chapel hold two strands of Yim Tin Tsai’s story: work by the shore and Catholic village life.