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'''Amah Rock''' ({{zh|t={{linktext|望夫石}}}}, ''Mong Fu Shek'', {{lit.}} "thehusband-watching stone gazing out for her husband") is a naturally shaped [[Rock (geology)|rock]] located on a hilltop in southwest [[Sha Tin District]], [[Hong Kong]].

The rock is approximately 15 meters in height, and itsis shapeshaped looksmuch like a woman carrying a baby on her back. It stands above the entrance to the [[Lion Rock Tunnel]], within [[Lion Rock Country Park]].

According to a legend, the faithful wife of a fisherman climbed the hills every day, carrying her son, to watch for the return of her husband, not knowing he had been drowned at sea. In reward for her faithfulness she was turned into a rock by the [[Matsu (goddess)Mazu|Goddess of the Sea]] so that her spirit could unite with that of her husband.<ref>[http://www.afcd.gov.hk/english/country/cou_vis/cou_vis_cou/cou_vis_cou_lr/cou_vis_cou_lr.html Lion Rock Country Park] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100226202609/http://www.afcd.gov.hk/english/country/cou_vis/cou_vis_cou/cou_vis_cou_lr/cou_vis_cou_lr.html |date=2010-02-26 }}</ref> Similar legends abound throughout the whole of China—the number of rocks called ''Mong Fu Shek'' in the country is high. Many Chinese classical poems were dedicated to this kind of rock.

* [[Tao FungFong Shan]]

* [[List of areasplaces ofin Hong Kong]]

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*[http://www.geocities.com/kp_diver/index34LIONROCK2.htm Pictures of Amah Rock] ([https://wwwweb.webcitationarchive.org/5knHECGUw?url=web/20110518155655/http://www.geocities.com/kp_diver/index34LIONROCK2.htm Archived] 2009-10-25)