Editing Pok Fu Lam (section)

===History===
[[Image: Lee-ling Fairy Tower.JPG|thumb|upright|Lee Ling Fairy Tower]]
Pok Fu Lam Village is a historic village, which has existed since the beginning of the 17th century. Local residents in the past have repeatedly asked the government to give indigenous inhabitants of Pok Fu Lam the same recognition as residents of the [[New Territories]]. These claims have been rejected by the government which also threatened demolition of the village.

In the [[Kangxi Emperor|Kangxi period]] (late 17th century) of the [[Qing dynasty]], approximately 2,000 people seeking asylum from [[Revolt of the Three Feudatories|turmoils in mainland China]] reached this village. The early villagers, mostly with the surnames of Chen, Huang, and Luo, were farmers. The "[[Xin'an County|Xinan County]] Journal" of 1819 mentioned that Pok Fu Lam Village was one of three villages on Hong Kong Island (the other ones were at [[Stanley, Hong Kong|Stanley]] and [[Wong Chuk Hang San Wai|Wong Chuk Hang]]). It was described as "built alongside the hill and the creek, its structures are quite elegant".

At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Pok Fu Lam was 833. The number of males was 580.<ref>{{Cite journal| last = Hase| first = Patrick |author-link=Patrick Hase| title = Traditional Life in the New Territories: The Evidence of the 1911 and 1921 Censuses| journal =Journal of the [[Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch]]| volume = 36| page = 82| year = 1996| url = https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/ecc123316b3526a31a101b3c4cf08a12.pdf| issn = 1991-7295}}</ref>

After the [[World War II|Second World War]], the massive refugee influx seeking asylum from mainland China reached Hong Kong, resulting in the village population increasing from 20-odd households to more than 100 households. The original vegetable gardens were replaced by houses. It was not until the 1980s, when the Hong Kong economy experienced rapid growth, that the village population began to decrease, but many villagers remain in the village today.