The Tea Terraces Beneath Hong Kong’s Highest Peak
On Tai Mo Shan, grassy slopes preserve traces of an older tea landscape, while rain and streams still shape the mountain.
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Back to the selectionTai O’s Dragon Boat Water Parade
In Tai O’s ritual procession, dragon boats tow sacred sampans carrying deity statues through the village waterways.
Salted Fish Making in Hong Kong’s Islands
Hong Kong’s intangible-heritage inventory records salting and sun-drying seasonal fish, a preservation practice within the territory’s fishing culture.
Shrimp Paste Making in Hong Kong’s Islands
Hong Kong’s intangible-heritage inventory describes shrimp paste made from silver shrimp, salt, fragmentation and sunning—a small catch transformed into a lasting ingredient.
Tai O’s Stilt Houses: Building Between the Tides
Timber and zinc-sheet houses line Tai O’s shifting shore, where high and low tides shape a distinctive coastal settlement.
Tai Po Kau: A Forest Planted into Hong Kong’s Hills
Tai Po Kau’s woodland began as a government afforestation project and grew into a refuge for trees and forest birds.
Sam Mun Tsai Night Dragon Boat Parade: Shared Prayers
Every year at the Dragon Boat Festival, two Tai Po communities hold a night water parade off Sam Mun Tsai. Their boats carry statues of deities as residents pray for safety on land and at sea.
The Old Tai Po Market Station, Reframed as a Museum
A railway station built in 1913 now preserves the material memory of Hong Kong’s railway inside the town it once served.
Sam Mun Tsai’s Waterfront and Night Dragon Boats
At Sam Mun Tsai, Tai Po’s night dragon boat parade is held offshore. Its setting connects a community ritual to the waters beside the settlement.
Wun Yiu: Porcelain Production Beneath Tai Po’s Hills
Excavated kiln remains at Wun Yiu reveal stages of blue-and-white porcelain production and a chapter in Hong Kong’s early industrial history.
Tai Tam Waterworks and the Eastward City
Tai Tam’s reservoirs and associated works were built in stages between 1883 and 1917 as Hong Kong expanded its water supply.
Tin Hau Temple and the Shoreline of Causeway Bay
Causeway Bay’s Tin Hau Temple preserves a bell cast in 1747 and a memory of a time when the temple stood directly beside the sea.