Great Clearance
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The Great Clearance or Great Evacuation (遷界令 or 遷海令) was ordered in southern China by imperial edicts of the Qing Emperor Kangxi in 1661 and 1662. This involved moving the entire population of the coastal regions of southern China inland.
The goal was to fight the anti-Qing movement, begun by Ming Dynasty loyalists under the leadership of Zheng Chenggong (also known as Koxinga), to regain Beijing.
[edit] Hong Kong
What is now the territory of Hong Kong became largely wasteland during the ban.[1] The ban was lifted in 1669, following a request by the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi Zhou Youde (周有德) and Governor of Guangdong Wang Lairen (王來任), and residents were allowed to return to their original homes.[2]
Hakka dialect speaking communities are thought to have arrived in the Hong Kong area after the rescinding of the coastal evacuation order.[3]. The formerly established Punti clans also came back, expanded their ancestral halls, built study halls and set up market towns in Yuen Long, Tai Po and Sheung Shui.[1]
[edit] See also
- Hai jin
- Chou Wong Yi Kung Study Hall in Shui Tau Tsuen, Hong Kong, erected in 1685 by the Tang Clan, in honour of Zhou Youde and Wang Lairen.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Hong Kong Museum of History: "The Hong Kong Story" Exhibition Materials
- ^ "Towards Urbanisation: Shuen Wan and Plover Cove Reservoir"
- ^ Down to Earth: The Territorial Bond in South China. ed. David Faure & Helen Siu, Stanford University Press. (1995) ISBN 0-8047-2434-2. See p.123-160, in Patrick Hase's article 'Alliance of Ten'.
- ^ The incredible journey of Yuen Long - Chau Wong Yi Kung Study Hall
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