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Ping Long

village of Hong Kong

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ105835967 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ping Long (Chinese: 坪朗) is a village in Lam Tsuen, Tai Po District, Hong Kong.

Administration

Ping Long is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.

See also

San Tong, a village adjacent to Ping Long, located to its northeast

Tai Om, a village adjacent to Ping Long, located to its south

References

External links

Delineation of area of existing village Ping Long (Tai Po) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)

Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Pictures of Chung Ancestral Hall, No. 21 Ping Long, Tai Po

Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Chung Ancestral Hall, No.

Editorial summary

“Ping Long” enters the record as village of Hong Kong. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ping, Long and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ping, Long and village.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Ping Long” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ping, Long and village provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105835967. Authority coordinates are 22.445, 114.133. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019 and 2022.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ping Long”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ping Long primary sources, Ping Long archive and Ping research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ping Long”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ping Long” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.