Yuk Hui Temple, Taoist temple in Cheung Chau, Hong Kong.

Yuk Hui Temple is a Taoist sanctuary on Cheung Chau island featuring traditional Chinese construction with curved green roof tiles, ceramic decorations, and four stone lions at its entrance. The building underwent major restoration from 1999 to 2003 that returned it to its original craftsmanship.

Local fishermen built this sanctuary in 1783 following the end of a plague they credited to divine intervention. This founding moment permanently linked the place to the community's survival story and collective memory.

The temple's name Yuk Hui means 'Jade Void'. Fishermen still come before setting sail to ask for an auspicious date and a good catch, and return to give thanks. The busiest days are Pak Tai Festival on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month and the Bun Festival on the 8th day of the 4th lunar month, when a bamboo theatre is built on the football pitch beside the temple.

The sanctuary sits on a smaller island and is easiest to reach by ferry that runs regularly from the harbor. Wear comfortable shoes as the pathways to it wind through narrow lanes with uneven stone surfaces.

The temple's iron sword, about 800 years old, is linked to Emperor Bing of Song: a general threw it into the sea to calm a storm, and a local fisherman later dredged it up and gave it to Pak Tai. A newspaper clipping kept in the temple records its theft in the early 1970s and its recovery in East Kowloon after villagers consulted Pak Tai with divination blocks.