Man Ancestral Hall, Tai Hang, Ancestral shrine in Tai Hang, Tai Po District, Hong Kong.
Man Ancestral Hall is an ancestral shrine in Tai Hang, Tai Po, featuring traditional Chinese architecture with a main hall designed for ceremonies. The space contains altars with ancestor tablets and areas arranged for family rituals and gatherings.
The hall was built during the Ming dynasty and is owned by the Man clan's Kung Chung Tong. It was damaged by Japanese forces in World War II and restored in 2005. It is the second-largest ancestral hall in Tai Po District, after the Tang clan's King Law Ka Shuk at Tai Po Tau.
The hall is owned by the Man clan's Man Kung Public Hall and hosts weddings, jiao rites, group New Year greetings and autumn sacrifices. Its door couplet reads "Yanmen prolongs the family's blessings; righteous energy lifts the house's name": the first line refers to the Man surname's formation at Yanmen in Shanxi, the second to the Song loyalist Wen Tianxiang, whose portrait hangs inside.
The hall stands in Tsoi Hang Tsuen village, Tai Hang, in Tai Po District. It is a two-hall building, so visitors pass from the entrance hall into the main hall with its three altars. The Man clan still holds weddings, jiao rites, group greetings and autumn sacrifices here, so check before visiting that no ceremony is taking place.
The stone columns and carvings were made to order in Fujian, the grey bricks and tiles hand-cast in Kaiping, Guangdong, and the altar and offering tables commissioned in Buji and Songgang, Shenzhen. The carved frieze boards, door gods and screens were cut by craftsmen from Zhejiang, and the plaques reading "Haoran Zhengqi" and "Houde Cantian" were brushed by the scholar Wen Huaisha.
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