Chik Kwai Study Hall 植桂书室Zhíguì Shūshì

About Chik Kwai Study Hall

Chik Kwai Study Hall was built before 1899 by Lai Kam-tai of the Lai clan in Pat Heung, as a place for both ancestor worship and the education of young clansmen. It is a typical two-hall, one-courtyard Qing building with a carved wooden altar for the clan's ancestral tablets, and the Antiquities and Monuments Office calls it one of the finest traditional study halls remaining in the Yuen Long area, for its woodcarvings, plaster mouldings and murals. After the Second World War it housed classrooms and then a kindergarten, which closed in the early 1970s.

How to get to Chik Kwai Study Hall

In Sheung Tsuen, Pat Heung, about 3 km east-south-east of Kam Sheung Road MTR station; closed on Tuesdays except public holidays and currently partly closed.

Nearby

• Victoria Harbour 维多利亚港 20 km
  Glass towers and green hills around a harbour you can cross in ten minutes
• Victoria Peak 太平山顶 20 km
  Ride the 1888 funicular to the skyline view, then walk the Lugard Road loop
• Tian Tan Buddha & Ngong Ping 天坛大佛与昂坪 30 km
  A giant bronze Buddha on Lantau, reached by a 25-minute cable car ride

Also within 20 km: Leung Ancestral Hall, Yuen Kong Tsuen 元岗村梁氏宗祠 (under 10 km), Residence of Tang Pak Kau, Kam Tin 邓伯裘故居 (under 10 km), Yi Tai Study Hall 二帝书院 (under 10 km), Tang Kwong U Ancestral Hall 广瑜邓公祠 (under 10 km), The Mills 南丰纱厂 (under 10 km), Sam Tung Uk Museum 三栋屋博物馆 (under 10 km).

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Learn more

• Wikipedia (Chinese)