Un Long
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From an earlier romanisation Ün Long.
Proper noun[edit]
Un Long
- Alternative form of Yuen Long.
- 1898, J.H. Stewart Lockhart, Extracts from a Report by Mr. Stewart Lockhart on the Extension of the Colony of Hongkong, page 7:
- The Puntis speak the dialect commonly known as Cantonese. Their population amounts to 64,140, and is contained in 161 villages. They chiefly inhabit the valleys , especially those drained by the Sham Chun and Ün Long rivers.
- 1934, Colonial Reports--annual, page 36:
- a length of the main road between Castle Peak and Un Long was tar-painted for a distance of two miles […]
Taipo Market and Un Long were surfaced, kerbed and channelled in front of new houses.
- 1940, Journal of the Hong Kong Fisheries Research Station:
- The Un Long people, regard the grey mullet as a fish of the highest delicacy and a large portion of the local pond production is used to satisfy the local market demand.
- 2007, Sidney Cheung, Chee-Beng Tan, quoting Suen (1955), Food and Foodways in Asia: Resource, Tradition and Cooking, Routledge, →ISBN, page 40:
- The greatest pond (about 62 mows) in Un Long belongs to this company.