Sai Kung Town () or simply Sai Kung () is a town on the Sai Kung Peninsula, facing Sai Kung Hoi (Inner Port Shelter), part of Sai Kung District in the New Territories, Hong Kong. Sai Kung is the central hub of nearby surrounding villages, and hence the name may also refer to the areas in its immediate surroundings. Name Sai Kung Town, or just Sai Kung, was established as a market town for the surrounding villages as , around 100 years ago. Nowadays, in legal documents, the town is more often referred to as . Despite in modern transliteration, usually meaning city, in Classical Chinese, and both mean market. The word was also used by the colonial British government to transliterate the word Town, as in, for example, Tai Po Town. The name Sai Kung () first appeared in Western publications dating back to the early 1900s, but the settlement was at that time only described as "the village of Sai Kung". Sai Kung also probably first appeared on the map of the Xin'an County, made by Simeone Volonteri in 1866. The origins of the name Sai Kung are unknown. Moreover, there are criticisms of the accuracy of Volonteri's map in general, particularly as regards specific place names, such as Green Hill, which historically known as Tuen Mun Hill. History According to Professor , no market was recorded where modern day Sai Kung District is today in the Qing dynasty's Xin'an Xianzhi (), either in the Kangxi edition (1688) nor in the Jiaqing edition (1819). Instead, Faure stated that, due to inaccessibility of land-based transport, Leung Shuen Wan was probably developed into a moorage inlet in the 18th century. Shops were opened on Leung Shuen Wan Island (known in English as the High Island, though this is not within the modern boundary of Sai Kung Town), as well as a Tin Hau Temple, for the boat people that lived on their boats. Objects in the Temple dated back to the year 1741 of the western calendar. Faure also stated that market(s) on Sai Kung Peninsula was/were founded before the signing of the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory in 1898, which ceded the whole Peninsula to the Hong Kong colony as the New Territories and New Kowloon. In the early 1900s, the Sai Kung market had expanded to 50 shops, plus 4 boat-building sheds. At the same