Sheung Shui

Sheung Shui
Aerial view of Sheung Shui
Traditional Chinese	上水
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Shàngshuǐ Hakka Romanization song1 sui3 Yue: Cantonese Jyutping soeng5 seoi2

Sheung Shui (Chinese: 上水; Jyutping: soeng5 seoi2) is an area in New Territories, Hong Kong. Sheung Shui Town, a part of this area, is part of the Fanling-Sheung Shui New Town in the North District of Hong Kong. Fanling Town is to its southeast.

Shek Wu Hui (石湖墟) used to be the marketplace of the Sheung Shui area, before the development of Sheung Shui Town. Bounded by Lung Sum Avenue (龍琛路), San Fung Avenue and Jockey Club Road, it was the main market in the Sheung Shui area from the 1930s onwards. Today some private residences can be found towering over the old flats in the hui (market). The majority of the buildings still standing were repaired in the 1950s.

Sheung Shui Wai (上水圍), originally lived in by the Liu (廖) clan, is a walled village. The ancestral hall Liu Man Shek Tong (廖萬石堂) in the village is one of the declared monuments of Hong Kong.

The Fung Kai No.1 Secondary School (鳳溪第一中學), located near Sheung Shui Wai and originally established by the Liu clan, is the largest secondary school in Hong Kong, in terms of area covered. More than one turfed football pitch can be found inside the school campus. Because of its green and ample campus, the school used to serve as a scene for local educational television programs.

Sheung Shui Town and the rest of the Sheung Shui area is served by the Sheung Shui Station of the MTR East Rail Line in the Sheung Shui's town centre. This line takes them into Kowloon within 40 minutes, and then onto surrounding areas through connections with other MTR lines.