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In recent years, there have been a lot of voices talking about the New Territories and the local area, all because the New Territories has always played a key role in Hong Kong's local history and social evolution. Since the Song Dynasty, the four major ethnic groups (Cantonese, Hakka, Danjia and Hok Lao) have moved to the New Territories one after another. Today's locals eat Poon Choi, go cold, worship the Queen of Heaven, worship Emperor Guan, love the villages, and protect the markets, all of which are closely linked to their long-standing customs and culture. After the British leased the New Territories at the end of the 19th century, changes in the Hong Kong government's land policy brought a different situation to the New Territories. In order to reshape this precious life history of the Chinese in the New Territories of Hong Kong, the author of this book, Shi Zhiming, takes the above-mentioned four major ethnic groups of the New Territories of Hong Kong as the main axis and presents their folk beliefs, customs and their integration and evolution process in a three-dimensional manner in chronological order. In terms of research methods, we not only used macro-level research on historical documents, local chronicles and Hong Kong archives, but also used micro-level fieldwork and micro-combination with genealogy, inscriptions, oral histories and archival materials from villages in the New Territories to systematically present the traditional customs of the Chinese in the New Territories.