FORTIFIED VILLAGES OF KAM TIN

Yuen Long is a good starting point for visiting Kam Tin fortified villages, former shelters against pirates, bandits and soldiers. Kat Hing Wai is still the most visited of both. There are old women Hakka smoking their long pipe. The inhabitants of the Tang Cland have ancestors from China's Central and North China. They travelled from Jiangxi and were the first to populate this region more than 800 years ago. In the th century, the Tang clan guesclin the last members of the Song dynasty, and one of Tang married one of the Emperor's Aunts.