Talk:Tai Po

History / People

I think the article skims over this rather vaguely, with respect to its transformation and growth in the late 70s from small market town to the greater town-city as it is today.

There is no mention of the land reclamation that took place in the 1970s to allow the expansion of the town. Before then, the sea actually came right up to the back of Kwong Fuk Road; pre-1960s there used to be a ferry service between Tai Po Market and the remote villages of the North-east New Territories. This was filled in to create the land on which the 'new town' (Tai Yuen Estate, Tai Po Centre, etc) was built. I think something should be said about that.

Also I think the suggestion that the Hakka population of Tai Po are largely the result of immigration from Guangdong is a bit misleading (although of course in the historical sense that is true, from the Hakka migrations southwards over the centuries).

Tai Po Market was avery much a town with a significant Hakka presence, particularly linked to the Hakka villages of the rural North-east New Territories as it was the nearest town for them. As I mentioned above, there used to be a ferry service pre-1960s and many Hakka villagers would travel across Tolo Harbour to and from Tai Po Market for shopping and social activities. Also in this regard, I think it is important to mention about the relocation of many such Hakka villagers to Tai Po Market in the mid-1960s due to the creation of Plover Cove Reservoir. (See those low-rise flats along Kwong Fuk Road on the right in the article photograph (with the red horizontal stripes)? Those flats were built in the 1960s as compensation by the colonial government with which to relocate the Hakka villagers that were displaced by the creation of Plover Cove reservoir. Again, I think maybe something about this could be mentioned.

--Whimsical Oracle (talk) 02:29, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Naming of Tai Po (大步)

The following paragraph is removed from the article, as it contains no reference, and I don't think it's appropriate to put it in the lead section. I'll appreciate if someone can offer reliable source for it.

There is an apocryphal story that Tai Po was originally called Tai Po (大步), lit. big step. Once upon a time it was a big forest with tigers. People wanted to pass through the forest faster by walking in big steps. 大步 and 大埔 are pronounced similarly in Cantonese. Max Cheung (talk) 12:19, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

It is something between urban legend and actual history. For source, better dig out in Qing Dynasty's 新安縣志. Matthew_hk tc 01:38, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Merger Discussion

Request received to merge articles: The Beverly Hills into Tai Po; dated: January 2017. Proposer's Rationale: The Beverly Hills is stub-class and has not been updated in over a year, leading me to wonder whether the subject can support an article on its own. This is the most logical place to put the information in that article if that article is not to be deleted. Discuss here. Rob Kelk 20:36, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

• Support Merge: It would seem this would be uncontested but it should either me merged or deleted and a prod might offer a solution. Otr500 (talk) 06:17, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
• Support: TBH will easily fit into Tai Po, and most of its references are the same anyway. RM2KX (talk) 04:08, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

It is not encyclopedic to have a section of content about The Beverly Hills. if they are notable, then it should have a separate article. If they are not notable, then just mention their name. If The Beverly Hills, as a non-notable subject, did not have an article but have a section, then why not other residential estate?? For example, Plover Cove Garden, famous for human meat char siu and the former site of Tai Po Public Library? Matthew_hk tc 01:01, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Merge proposal of Tai Po and Tai Po New Town

It is very very redundant to have two articles for the same area. I knew Tai Po is not equal to Tai Po District (which contains north of Sai Kung, which in the past the nearest town they could access, is by the sea to Tai Po Market (or called Tai Wo Market); not to be confuse Sai Kung to Sai Kung District) But Tai Po is exactly the same as Tai Po New Town, despite it is not that the same as Tai Po Market, a place name that boundary change time to time.

I don't object to fork out content that under the WP:article title Tai Po if the the article is too long, but it seem it is not. I also don't mind to have an article that under Tai Po New Town project, that cover the urban planning and reclamation but not the area. Matthew_hk tc 00:57, 22 October 2018 (UTC)