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Chan's Ancestral Hall 陳氏宗祠

Stop 4 of the Village culture walk · 村落文化徑第4站

Chan's Ancestral Hall 陳氏宗祠
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The plaque over the door is the original, dug up when the school was demolished.

Chan descendants gather here to worship their ancestors on New Year's Eve and the first two days of the year.

Couplets inside name the clan's place of origin: Yingchuan, in Luoyang.

Under the government's 1952 Ten-Year School Building Programme the Chans gave the site for Shui Hau School (1954–1990): one pitched-roof classroom, three grades a session, with pupils and teachers sharing the upkeep.

After it closed the village head won the land back; the hall was rebuilt in 2000 and Chan descendants run it in turn. On the second day of each Lunar New Year a lion dance "plucks the green".

Beside it, the former sports field (1955) had a grass pitch and a basketball hoop for the school, and hosted banquets; it is now the village sitting-out area, with village houses on part of it.

門口「陳氏宗祠」牌匾是拆校時從地底挖出的原物。

年卅晚、初一、初二陳氏後人聚集祭祖。

祠內對聯顯示陳氏祖籍洛陽潁川。

1952 年「十年建校計劃」下,陳氏捐地建水口學校(1954–1990):單層金字頂、一個課室,上下午各三級,師生分擔清潔維修。

停辦後村長申請取回用地,2000 年重建,由陳氏後人輪流管理;每年年初二有舞獅「採青」。

旁邊的昔日球場(1955 年)設草地足球場及籃球架,供學校上體育及擺酒;現為村中休憩處,部分建了丁屋。

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