Yau Yat Tsuen

Yau Yat Tsuen or Yau Yat Chuen (Chinese: 又一村; Jyutping: jau6 jat1 cyun1; pinyin: Yòuyīcūn) is one of the very few low density upscale neighborhoods in the central urban area of Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is located in North Kowloon, at the foot of Beacon Hill. An electoral constituency of Sham Shui Po District is also named after the neighbourhood.[1]

Yau Yat Tsuen

又一村
Area
Tat Chee Avenue, the main road in Yau Yat Tsuen
Yau Yat Tsuen
Coordinates: 22°19′51″N 114°10′26″E
CountryHong Kong
RegionKowloon
DistrictSham Shui Po
Founded byYu Tat Chi
Government
 • TypeDistrict Council
 • CouncillorDominic Lee Tsz-king (Liberal)
Population
 (2015)
 • Total16,484
Time zoneUTC+08:00 (HKT)
Parc Oasis is the main private housing inside Yau Yat Chuen

Naming

The area's name comes from a poem by Southern Song era poet Lu You, titled Touring Shanxi Village.[2] The name comes from the fourth verse in the poem (柳暗花明又一村; liǔ àn huā míng yòu yī cūn), which translates to Then out of the shade of the willows, came bright flowers and another village. Hence, the area's name literally translates to "another village".

Facilities

As a primarily residential area, there are relatively few services inside Yau Yat Tsuen. There is a small supermarket, a few property agents, a post office and a few other local stores. However a large shopping mall, Festival Walk, is on the edge of the village. It consists of 200 stores including a cinema and an ice-skating rink. The whole area of Yau Yat Tsuen is also within walking distance from the Kwun Tong line (Shek Kip Mei and Kowloon Tong) and East Rail Line (Kowloon Tong) of MTR, the only mass transit railway operator of Hong Kong.

History

After the Second World War, affluent families built large detached houses in the area of Yau Yat Chuen. Since then, it has been expanded and covers a much larger area. Along with the neighbouring Kowloon Tong and Beacon Hill, the area has some of the most exclusive and expensive residential properties in Kowloon.

Development

1970s

In the 1970s, some of the large houses were subdivided into approximately ten flats in each block. However, with high property prices in Hong Kong, these 3 or 4 bedroom flats, which tend to cost more than 7 million Hong Kong dollars, are still prohibitively expensive for a large section of the Hong Kong population.

1980s

In the 1980s, the large development scheme of Village Garden was constructed and more 1,000 to 2,400 square feet (93 to 223 m2) flats and houses were built.

1990s

In the early 1990s Yau Yat Chuen continued to expand with the development of Parc Oasis, where more than twenty 10-storey blocks were developed. In 1992 the nearby Polytechnic gained University status and became the City University of Hong Kong.

Education

References
  1. "District Council Constituency Boundaries - Sham Shui Po District" (PDF). Hong Kong: Electoral Affairs Commission. January 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  2. Lam, Wing Kin (12 May 2017). "【恒管清思】錯譯香港街名 泉水誤作春園" [Pure Thoughts from HSMC: Wrongfully translate Hong Kong's street name, "Spring Water" turns into "Spring Garden"]. Wen Wei Po (in Chinese). Retrieved 9 January 2019. 不少香港街道的取名卻饒有深意，甚或帶有相當中國文化色彩。如九龍塘著名住宅區「又一村」，其名稱固然是取自南宋詩人陸游名句「柳暗花明又一村」。(Many names for Hong Kong streets have rather deep meaning, and can even have Chinese cultural characteristics. For example, the famous Kowloon Tong residential area"Yau Yat Chuen", its name obviously came from Southern Song poet Lu You's famous phrase, "Then out of the shade of the willows, came bright flowers and another village.")
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