When walking through the streets of Hong Kong and seeing all kinds of place names, you may feel very awkward or even scratching your head. In fact, these place names may be transliterated or changed due to topography, reflecting Hong Kong's diverse culture and history.
Strange station names, with a maze of exits. Hong Kong's rail transit can be said to extend in all directions, extending to almost every area with dense households
If you look closely at the colorful route map, it is not difficult to find that there are some station names that vaguely reveal stories.
Among them, some sound like personal names, such as Ho Man Tin, Wong Tai Sin, Prince Prince, and some sound like city names, such as Ma On Shan, Cheung Sha Wan, Nanchang, and some may not read at all, such as Hung Hom, Fish Bay, and Xinghua Estate.
In short, in this Hong Kong where there are too many stories to be lost, these place names still hide a lot of unknown past. Today, UNU Travel will take you together to learn the interesting god and place names of Hong Kong!
1. Kennedy Town
Kennedy town. The name seems confusing at first glance and seems to be a very unfamiliar transliteration. Kennedy here is the name of Kennedy, the seventh governor in Hong Kong's history.
Although one of the earliest areas in Hong Kong, Kennedy Town has grown faster than places like Central and Causeway Bay for many years, with waste incinerators and slaughterhouses, and it has only in recent years become integrated with the rest of Hong Kong Island.
2. Hung Hom
The word "Hom" is pronounced "look",
Located in Kowloon, Hung Hom is a famous old district of Hong Kong.
There is a Red Hall in Hung Hom, where many concerts are held, adjacent to Tsim Sha Tsui.
A hundred years ago, when a construction worker was digging a well, he found that the water gushing out of the well was vermilion; Some feng shui experts blamed the ground for hurting the dragon vein, and what flowed out was dragon's blood, from which the name Hung Hom came from.
3. Sycamore Stree
Most of the streets in Tai Kok Tsui are actually named after plants, so the poetry and dance street Sycamore Stree looks quite different and very literary here.
It is said that Sycamore stands for fig, but the name of fig is inauspicious, so it is transliterated as "poetry and dance".
4. Yau Ma Tei
Yau Ma Tei is a typical old district in Hong Kong, where the famous Temple Street is located, and the name Yau Ma Tei is closely related to Tin Hau Temple in Yau Ma Tei.
Because the land in front of the temple at that time was where fishermen dried hemp cables on their boats, many tung oil shops and hemp cable shops that operated fishing boats were opened there, so it was called "Yau Ma Tei".
5. The fox barks
In the mid-20s and 30s of the last century, foreigners often hunted in the New Territories, specifically in the Sai Kung East Country Park in the New Territories, opposite the peak of Snake Peak.
According to records from the New Territories Mountains, foxes have been seen here in large numbers, and animals such as lynx, ferret and badger pass by.
They are agile, fast-moving, and have a sound similar to that of a fox, and the locals only recognize the fox's call, mistakenly thinking that it is a fox infested, hence the name "fox call"
Although it is impossible to encounter wild foxes again, it is also a fascinating trip to see the traces of foxes left over from history.
In recent years, many Hong Kong locals like to choose to camp with the fox call, not only to be close to nature, but also to soak up oxygen and relax.
6. Sham Shui Po
Before the abandonment of Kai Tak Airport, even Boeing 747s had to fly through residential areas in Sham Shui Po to land on the runway ahead. A dozen years ago, Sham Shui Po residents grew up with the noise of airplane engines.
The "po" of Sham Shui Po is the same as "port", which was derived from a deep-water pier at that time.
Sham Shui Po lacked planning in the early years, with unbridled housing expansion, chaotic streets, and a worrying public security situation, but now, after remediation planning, it has become a prosperous and lively central area in Kowloon
7. He Wentian
He Wentian is also a name at first glance, but you only guessed half right. The land around He Wentian used to be owned by a person named "He Wen", so after a long time, this place was called He Wentian.
Ho Man Tin is also located in Kowloon and has been inhabited since the 19th century. It is said that this was once a cemetery, and in the fifties of the last century, it was a resettlement area to house residents from the mainland.
After years of construction, it has developed into a purely residential area.
Aldrich Street
Oi Seo Street is located in Shau Kei Wan, northeast of Hong Kong Island, and its name comes from the "Oi Ji Bay" there. "Love Order" has a very "five-lecture, four-beautiful, three-love" style, but in fact, it comes from an officer--- Major Aldrich
Boundary Street
From Kowloon City to the west, it extends horizontally to Deep Water Step, dividing the entire Kowloon Peninsula straight. As the name suggests, this street long ago represented the junction between China and Britain, separating the Qing Dynasty boundary from the territory of British Hong Kong
Sun Street, Moon Street, Star Street
The origin of the names "Sun Street", "Moon Street" and "Star Street" located at the junction of Wan Chai and Admiralty comes from the fact that Hong Kong's first power plant was located in this area in 1889, and the Hong Kong government named the phrase "Three Lights, Sun, Moon and Star" in the Three Character Sutra, which means that electricity brings light.
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