Tam Kung Temple

Then we can go to the Tam Kung Temple after visiting the museum. It is located at Shau Kei Wan and near the museum. As Shau Kei Wan was the site for a quarry. Some stonecutters from Huizhou (惠州) brought their beliefs in Tam Kung to Hong Kong and built the temple in 1905. It is a gradeⅠhistoric building in HK. We can visit the temple and pray to Tam Kung. In the figure, we can see that Tam Kung was young and had a child face, with a tiger accompanied to carry heavy objects. The local said that he had already possessed supernatural powers to command the wind and rain, cure sickness, and forecast weather at the age of 13. Therefore, we call him Sea God Lord Tam.There is a historic story of the Temple. On 18, December of 1941, the Japanese army dispatched assault boats to cross Victoria harbour and land at the temple, and the temple was also used as a temporary command center .There are many antiques of historic value, such as The boulder in front of the temple (seal of Tam Kung), an old bronze bell, an altar, an incense burner, wood/stone carvings, a stone tablet, and so on. On the 8th of the fourth lunar month, there is a Chinese opera and street parade to celebrate Tam Kung Festival