Man Mo Temple, Wenwu temple in Tai Po, Hong Kong

Man Mo Temple is a symmetrical temple on Fu Shin Street in Tai Wo, Tai Po, built of blue brick and polished granite. Its entrance leads through a middle gate to an open courtyard flanked by eight side rooms, then to the main hall. Inside, Wen Chang holds a writing brush on the right and Guan Yu, red-faced and long-bearded, holds a guandao on the left.

Built by the seven yeuk villagers with pooled funds, the temple was begun in 1891 and completed in 1892, marking the formation of the Tai Wo market. It first served as the office of the Seven Yeuk Rural Committee, handling arbitration and fair trading. After a new rural office opened in 1954, it became a religious centre for Wen Chang and Guan Di. On 11 May 1984 it became the first building in the New Territories protected under the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance.

The temple's name is written on the door lintel as "Man Mo Temple", with the couplet "Wen Zhao Ri Yue; Wu Zhen Shan He" (Literature shines on sun and moon; Martial prowess guards mountains and rivers). The middle gate stays shut except on the birthdays of Guan Di and Wen Chang and on the 1st and 15th of each month; in earlier times only officials and elites passed through it, while others used the side passages. A swordfish snout bone rests to the right of the altar.

The temple stands on Fu Shin Street in Tai Wo, reachable by MTR. The middle gate inside stays shut except on the birthdays of Guan Di and Wen Chang and on the 1st and 15th of each lunar month, when it is opened; at other times visitors pass through the side doors.

The temple was the first building in the New Territories to receive statutory protection, listed as a declared monument on 11 May 1984. A swordfish beak bone is kept to the right of the main altar, beside the shrine of the Earth God on the left. The 1988 film Chicken and Duck Talk used the temple for its recruitment and staff-training scenes.