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{{Short description|Village in Hong Kong}}
[[File:Hin Tin 03.jpg|thumb|Village houses of Hin Tin along Hin Keng Street. The buildings in the background are part of the Parc Royale ({{zh|t=聚龍居|labels=no}}) private housing estate.]]
[[File:HK HinTin Yeung Law So AncestralHall.JPG|thumb|Yeung, Law, and So Ancestral Halls in Hin Tin. The towers in the background are part of [[Hin Keng Estate]].]]
[[File:Hin Tin 14.jpg|thumb|Hin Tin.]]
[[File:Hin Tin 34.jpg|thumb|Stairs leading to the upper part of Hin Tin Village.]]
'''Hin Tin''' ({{zh|t=顯田}}) is a village in the [[Tai Wai]] area of [[Sha Tin District]], [[Hong Kong]].
==Location==
Hin Tin is located south of the main part of [[Hin Keng Estate]],  across Hin Keng Street ({{zh|t=顯徑街|labels=no}}). [[Ha Keng Hau]], [[Sheung Keng Hau]] and Hin Tin are three adjacent villages located along Hin Keng Street in a northeast–southwest direction. Hin Keng Estate was named after these villages.
==Administration==
Hin Tin is a recognized village under the [[New Territories]] [[Small House Policy]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.landsd.gov.hk/doc/en/small-house/rv0909.pdf |title=List of Recognized Villages under the New Territories Small House Policy |last= |first= |date=September 2009 |website= |publisher=[[Lands Department]] |access-date= |quote=}}</ref>
==History==
Hin Tin village was established with government funding in the 1920s to resettle three [[Chinese clan|clans]] of villagers from Shek Lei Pui Valley ({{zh|t=石梨貝谷|labels=no}}), to make way for the construction of the [[Shek Lei Pui Reservoir]], completed in 1925. Approximately 80 people lived in 26 houses in the former Shek Lei Pui Village. The Yeung ({{zh|t=楊|labels=no}}), the Law ({{zh|t=羅|labels=no}}) and the So ({{zh|t=蘇|labels=no}}) clans were [[Hakka people|Hakkas]] from [[Nantou, Shenzhen (historical)|Nantou]] who had settled in the Valley for some 300 years. Another clan in the Valley, the [[Liu|Lau]] ({{zh|t=劉|labels=no}}), relocated to [[Kwai Chung]] instead of Hin Tin during the resettlement.<ref>{{cite book |title= The great difference: Hong Kong's New Territories and its people, 1898-2004|last= Hayes|first= James|author-link=James W. Hayes|year= 2006|publisher= [[Hong Kong University Press]]|isbn= 9789622097940|pages= 86–87}}</ref> The villagers who chose to settle in Hin Tin did so because they saw good income opportunities from the surrounding forest at that time.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Chapter 3. Traditional Sha Tin |title= Settlement, Life, and Politics - Understanding the Traditional New Territories|last= Hase|first= P. H.|author-link= Patrick Hase|year= 2020|publisher= [[City University of Hong Kong Press]]|series= [[Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland|Royal Asiatic Society]] Hong Kong studies series|isbn= 9789629374419|pages=221 }}</ref>
In 1982, the [[Housing Department]] demolished 600 structures at Hin Tin and relocated 167 families.<ref name="forest">{{cite journal |author= Jeffrey W. Cody and James R. Richardson|year= 1997|title= Urbanizing forest and Village Trees in Hong Kong's Sha Tin Valley, 1976-1997|journal= Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review|volume= IX|issue=1 |pages= 21–33|url= http://iaste.berkeley.edu/pdfs/09.1c-Fall97cody-richardson-sml.pdf|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160109220437/http://iaste.berkeley.edu/pdfs/09.1c-Fall97cody-richardson-sml.pdf|archive-date= 2016-01-09}}</ref>
==Features==
The [[ancestral hall]]s of the three clans, Yeung ({{zh|t=楊|labels=no}}), Law ({{zh|t=羅|labels=no}}) and So ({{zh|t=蘇|labels=no}}), are connected together to form a single block on the front row of the original three rows of houses.<ref>[[Antiquities and Monuments Office]]: [http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/Museum/Monument/form/brief_information_grade3.pdf Brief Information on Proposed Grade 3 Items. Items #852, 853, 854.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017210647/http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/Museum/Monument/form/brief_information_grade3.pdf |date=2012-10-17 }}</ref> They have been listed as [[List of Grade III historic buildings in Hong Kong|Grade III historic buildings]] since 2010.<ref name="Assess">[[Antiquities and Monuments Office]]: [http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/Museum/Monument/form/AAB-SM-chi.pdf List of the Historic Buildings in Building Assessment] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111215155849/http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/Museum/Monument/form/AAB-SM-chi.pdf |date=2011-12-15 }} (as of 23 November 2011)</ref>
==See also==
* [[Helen Liang Memorial Secondary School (Shatin)]]
* [[Hin Keng station]]
* [[Kau Yeuk (Sha Tin)]]
==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Hin Tin}}
* [https://www.had.gov.hk/rre/images/village_map1922/R/r-st-17.pdf Delineation of area of existing village Hin Tin (Sha Tin) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)]
[[Category:Villages in Sha Tin District, Hong Kong]]
[[Category:Tai Wai]]
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