Tsuen Wan, Kwai Tsing, and Tsing Yi districts have dozens of villages and a majority of them are Hakka. Throughout the years, many villages had to be relocated to make way for urban development and only a lucky few managed to escape this fate.

In the early days, most of the villages were formed around the town centre of Tsuen Wan, two examples being Kwan Mun Hau Village and Hoi Pa Village. However, these two villages were moved out, and in their locations now stand Yan Chai Hospital and Tak Wah Park respectively. Lo Wai Village is one of the oldest villages with more than 300 years’ history. Kwai Chung villages were generally established later than the ones in Tsuen Wan. Villagers mostly engaged in agriculture for a living and the pineapples grown in Tsuen Wan were once a renowned speciality of the district. However farming was gradually given up and villagers moved to urban areas for a living.

The villages were rather close to urban areas, requiring only ten minutes by car. Villagers pay importance to festivals, such as Tin Hau Festival and Chun Kwan Festival, and they will host Cantonese operas, puppet shows and other traditional activities on festivals even today, retaining old local customs.