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The Yan Tun Kong Study Hall, also known as Yin Yik Tong, is situated in Hang Tau Tsuen. The exact year of its construction cannot be ascertained, but according to the villager elders it was built by the descendants of the Tang clan of Ping Shan to commemorate their fourteenth to sixteenth generation ancestors Tang Wai-tak (also known as Yan-shaw), Tang Ji-fong (also known as Tun-fuk) and Tang Fung (also known as Ming-kong), Apart from the teaching purposes, it also served as an ancestral hall, and it still hosts clan gatherings and festivities, such as the Spring and Autumn rites. The Yan Tun Kong Study Hall was declared a monument in October 2009.
The Yan Tun Kong Study Hall was originally a two-hall-one-courtyard structure, with a two-storey annex added at its rear in the 1950s. A number of exquisite architectural features are still preserved in the study hall, such as the finely-carved ancestral altar, tuofeng (camel’s humps), the fascia boards and the couplets. The roof ridges and façade are decorated with plaster mouldings of auspicious motifs.
Opening Hours:
Monday, Wednesday to Sunday: 9 am - 1 pm and 2 pm - 5 pm
Closed on Tuesdays (except public holidays), Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day and the first three days of Chinese New Year