https://learning.hku.hk/ccch9051/group-5/files/original/7203359334afd55f8bd5f821021aaf3f.jpg db4ed91443208a47bfd31d237eae6461 https://learning.hku.hk/ccch9051/group-5/files/original/e88bf22fc65bad12e1b57a9f327bd455.jpg a15fa481056e06cd3e7b49576979c86f https://learning.hku.hk/ccch9051/group-5/files/original/43915c687acdc6f165bba5fce2573874.jpg 31e5999b57c334b67cbd3a252c850589 Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Transportation How to get to the item Go to Tin Shui Wai MTR Station and take light rail to Hang Mei Tsuen Station, the Hung Shing Temple is within the Ping Shan Heritage Trail. Grading status Grading status given by the Antiquities Advisory Board Grade 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hung Shing Temple, Hang Mei Tsuen, Ping Shan, Yuen Long, N.T. Description An account of the resource The temple is a Qing vernacular building of a two-hall-one-courtyard plan having a three bays layout. It has a symmetrical design with the Hung Shing deity housed at the altar on the central axis in the middle of the main hall facing the entrance at the other far end of the building. The building is constructed of green bricks with its walls and granite columns to support its pitched roofs of timber rafters, purlins and clay tiles. The roof of the main hall rests on a post-and-beam (抬樑式) wooden structure and concrete columns. The walls are in an eleven courses of stretchers to one course of headers (十一順一丁) bonding. Geometric and peach mouldings are on the main ridges. Wall friezes on the front façade are with plants and ruilong (夔龍) patterns. Fascia boards are with carvings of plants, flowers and calligraphy. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Villagers from Hang Mei Tsuen Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://www.aab.gov.hk/historicbuilding/en/526_Appraisal_En.pdf Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Built in 1764; Rebuilt in 1866 Language A language of the resource Chinese