Five Great Clans of the New Territories

Approximate extent of settlement of the Five Great Clans, determined by the leader of the indigenous villages
Five Great Clans of the New Territories
Chinese新界五大氏族
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXīnjiè Wǔ Dà Shìzú
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingSan1gaai3 Ng5 Daai6 Si6zuk6

The Five Great Clans of the New Territories are the five families that settled before the seventeenth century and became sizeable in the New Territories of Hong Kong.

They are the Tang (鄧), Man (文), Hau (侯), Pang (彭) and Liu (廖).[1]

  1. ^ Baker 1966, p. 26.