Tai Wong Ye Temple, Chinese temple in Kwun Tong District, Hong Kong.
This Chinese temple sits on a hillside behind Tsui Ying House, with exterior walls decorated in porcelain showing a dragon on one side and a tiger on the other. The structure forms part of the residential landscape and functions as the community's spiritual center.
The temple was relocated from Lok Fu to its current location in 1963. This move established a new home for the veneration of Li Man Chung, an ancestor connected to a Song Dynasty general who migrated south during the Mongol invasions.
The temple is managed by Tak Kau Po Hing Oi Tan Company Limited, a private firm, rather than by a religious order. Its name tablet reads "Tai Wong Ye Gu Temple", flanked by the couplet "Nourish the righteousness of heaven and earth; follow the complete men of past and present". The deity honoured is Li Man Chung, a Tang loyalist whose ancestral tablet was carried south by a general surnamed Li.
Public transportation serves the area and can be planned using the HKeMobility application from Hong Kong's Transport Department. The hilltop location means visitors should be prepared for some climbing to reach the entrance.
The temple's nameboard reads "Tai Wong Ye Ancient Temple", flanked by a couplet: "Nourish the righteousness of heaven and earth; follow the complete men of past and present." The first shrine stood at Lo Fu Ngam, now Lok Fu, where the ancestral tablet of Li Man Chung was placed after a Song loyalist general carried it south.
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