Entries whose own text says a village was evacuated, resited or its residents moved away. The Qing coastal evacuation accounts for a large share, but post-war resiting of New Territories villages is recorded too.
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《香港志·自然》建置與地區概況(人口) Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Territory, Geography and Population
APAHong Kong Chronicles Institute. Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Territory, Geography and Population (p. 〈頁碼〉). Accessed 2026-10-18. /chronicle/archive/1644#〈條目編號〉
《香港志·總述 大事記》(公元前 5000 年至 2017 年,共 6,500 多條大事) Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview and Chronology (c. 5000 BC–2017, over 6,500 events)
APAHong Kong Chronicles Institute (2020). Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview and Chronology (c. 5000 BC–2017, over 6,500 events) (p. 〈頁碼〉). /chronicle/archive/1662#〈條目編號〉
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During the reign of the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing dynasty from 1644 to 1661, Xin'an County initially registered a ding population of 6,851, but after two rounds of the coastal evacuation only 2,172 ding remained.
In 1661, the 18th year of the Shunzhi reign of the Qing dynasty, the imperial court issued the boundary evacuation order, abolishing Xin'an County and forcing the local people to relocate 50 li inland.
In 1661, the 18th year of the Shunzhi reign of the Qing dynasty, the Qing government issued the boundary evacuation order, forcing Hong Kong residents to move 50 li inland.
The Qing dynasty implemented the boundary evacuation order in 1661 (the eighteenth year of the Shunzhi reign of the Qing), causing many residents to leave their original places of residence and move inland.
In 1661 (the 18th year of the Shunzhi reign of the Qing dynasty), the Qing government implemented the boundary evacuation order, forcing Hong Kong residents to move 50 li inland.
Between April and May 1662, the Qing government implemented the coastal evacuation measure over a range of 30 to 50 li, with commander Cao Zhi leading troops to forcibly move coastal residents inland, leaving the coastal areas largely desolate; the whole of Hong Kong was included in the first evacuation.
The boundary evacuation order implemented for about twenty years during the Kangxi reign of the Qing dynasty caused Hong Kong's population to drop sharply.
In September 1663, the Qing government sent officials to survey the Guangdong border and determine the areas for the second evacuation, which included 24 villages in total along the eastern and western routes of Xinan County.
In 1664, the 3rd year of Kangxi, as the boundary evacuation order had long been in force and people were forced to leave their homes with their livelihoods cut off, some families soaked poisonous herbs in water and drank it together to end their lives collectively.
Between March and April 1664, the Qing government assigned garrison commander Jiang Kongrun and county magistrate Zhang Pu to carry out the second evacuation, requiring the people to move 30 li inland, while demolishing houses, building watchtowers, setting up fences and stationing large numbers of soldiers outside the border, strictly forbidding residence, farming and fishing there, and executing on the spot anyone crossing the boundary.
In the third year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing (1664), the registered ding of Xin'an County was 2,172, a figure recorded after the implementation of the boundary evacuation policy.
In 1664, the 3rd year of Kangxi of the Qing dynasty, the bandit leader Yuan Sidu defied the boundary evacuation order and secretly used Guanfu and Lek Yuen as hideouts.
In 1668, the Qing court stationed garrison troops at several watchtowers at Tai Po Tau, Ma Chue Ling, Lion Rock and Tuen Mun to guard the border and prevent residents within the evacuated area from returning to their old homes.
Between February and March 1668, the Guangdong Provincial Administration Commissioner Wang Lairan twice memorialised the Qing court, namely the 'Memorial on Extending the Border and Restoring the Villages' and the 'Posthumous Memorial on Extending the Border and Restoring the Villages', explaining the harms caused by the evacuation and requesting the restoration of the original boundary, but the court ultimately did not approve it.
In 1669, the 8th year of Kangxi, after the Qing dynasty lifted the boundary evacuation order and restored the boundary, Xin'an County was re-established under Guangzhou Prefecture.
In the 8th year of Kangxi of the Qing dynasty (1669), the Qing government approved the abolition of the boundary evacuation order, allowing residents to return to their places of origin.
The establishment of Kowloon City Walled Village had to wait until the 1720s, as the Ng clan had previously been forced to leave their homes and wander about because of the boundary evacuation.
During the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing dynasty (1723–1735), five clans—the Cheungs, Tsangs, Wongs, Huis and Tangs—jointly built Tsun Wan Wai, now known as Tsuen Wan Old Wai, which was the first village built in the Tsuen Wan area after the lifting of the coastal evacuation order in the early Qing.
During December 1966, the Hong Kong Government arranged housing resettlement for residents of six villages affected by the Plover Cove Reservoir project, relocating them to the new reclamation area of Tai Po Market; the opening ceremony of the village relocation was held on 30 January the following year.
According to the Xin'an County Gazetteer compiled during the Kangxi reign of the Qing dynasty, after the coastal evacuation was lifted the local population had lost more than half through death and dispersal, and some had settled elsewhere and had no intention of returning home.
The boundary evacuation covered 50 li of coastline on Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the outlying islands, with Yuen Long San Tin and Sha Tau Kok as the starting points of the northwestern and northeastern boundaries respectively.
In the first year of the boundary evacuation, the residents did not know they were to be moved; when the soldiers arrived, they abandoned their property and fled with their families, living in the open fields, and some died.
After the boundary evacuation order was lifted and the boundary restored in the early Qing, various clans returned one after another to settle in their homelands, among them the Tang clan of Kam Tin, who set about opening Yuen Long Market.
In the early Qing dynasty, the sea ban and boundary evacuation measures caused land to be abandoned and people to be displaced, resulting in insufficient tax revenue and a sharp decline in both the male and female population of Xin'an County.
After the coastal evacuation order was lifted during the Kangxi reign of the Qing dynasty, Hakka migrants moved into the Tuen Mun area and settled mainly in Lung Kwu Tan, So Kwun Wat and Tai Lam Chung.
After the lifting of the coastal evacuation ban during the Kangxi era of the Qing dynasty, many Hakka farmers moved into Hong Kong and eventually formed one of the four major communities.
After the repeal of the coastal evacuation order in the early Qing, Hakka people gradually moved into the mountainous and coastal areas of Sai Kung, forming villages of mixed surnames.
During the early Qing boundary evacuation, some people bribed officials to slip back within fifty li of the coast, an act known as "selling the boundary".
After the Qing government lifted the coastal evacuation order in the early Qing period and allowed residents outside the boundary to return to their original places of origin, Hakka communities moved into Sha Tin District in batches and established villages there.
The Qing dynasty's boundary evacuation measures caused Hong Kong residents to lose their homes and become displaced, and the Guangdong provincial governor Wang Lairan stated this situation to the imperial court through the 'Memorial on Restoring the Boundaries and Rebuilding the Villages'.
After the early Qing lifting of the boundary evacuation ban, large numbers of Hakka people moved in, eventually forming the four main ethnic groups of Punti, Hakka, Hoklo and Tanka.
Hong Kong's population experienced unusual fluctuations due to two historical events: the boundary evacuation implemented in the early Qing dynasty, and the 'home return' policy carried out during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.
After the coastal evacuation in the early Qing dynasty, Wun Yiu was abandoned for a time, and production resumed and the kiln site was expanded after the evacuation was lifted.
The early Qing boundary evacuation order dealt a blow to the lime-burning industry, which recovered rapidly after the coastal evacuation was lifted and the boundary restored.
The classes come from literal keyword matches on the archive text, not editorial judgement and not any official list of vanished places; a match does not mean an authority has declared the place gone.
Each entry joins only the first class it matches (reclamation, then demolition, then village resiting, then rebuilding), so the class counts add up to the total; entries matching several classes are reported separately rather than dropped.
The archive only holds published volumes, so a busy class or decade reflects collection density rather than how much disappeared at the time; comparable records in unpublished volumes are absent from this page.
「重建」「改建」一類入面,地方仍然存在——消失嘅係原貌、佈局或者用途,唔係地名。
In the rebuilding class the place still exists: what vanished is the original form, layout or use, not the name.
The place board counts specific place names only; entries whose place is a broad label such as Hong Kong, Kowloon or the New Territories still count towards their class but never enter the board.
呢一頁列全量條目,冇抽樣:抽樣規則只適用於標籤軸同十年切片,因為嗰兩層嘅條目本來就遠多於一頁。
This page lists every matching entry with no sampling: the sampling rule belongs to the tag axes and decade slices, where the underlying entry counts are far larger than one page.