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Cheung Chau Bun Festival (April/May)

There is only one bun festival in all the world and it takes place once a year on the tiny island of Cheung Chau. Enormous bamboo towers studded with sweet buns and effigies of three gods dominate the grounds near the Pak Tai temple, where the main festivities take place. The climax of the eight day festival is a large procession. Children dressed in colourful and historic costumes march, walk on stilts or ride on floats through the island's tiny winding streets.
     

Tin Hau Festival (April/May)

Tin Hau, the Goddess of the Sea, has a special place in Hong Kong's heart, thanks to the territory's maritime history. For her birthday on the 23rd day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the fishermen decorate their boats and gather at her temples to pray for good catches during the coming year. There is always a big celebration at Joss House Bay, with traditional rites at the temple, and tour organizers arrange launch trips to view the celebrations. In Yuen Long, in the New Territories, a parade takes place with colourful floats and lion dances.

     
  Mid-Autumn Festival (August/September)

This Chinese equivalent to the West's Harvest Moon Festival is one of the loveliest nights of the year. Part of the celebrations commemorate a 14th-Century uprising against the Mongols when rebels wrote the call to revolt on pieces of paper and embedded them in cakes which they smuggled to compatriots.
Today, during the festival, people eat special sweet cakes known as "Moon Cakes" made of ground lotus and sesame. Along with the cakes, shops sell coloured Chinese paper lanterns in the shapes of animals, and more recently, in the shapes of aeroplanes and space ships. On this family occasion parents allow children to stay up late, and take them to high vantage points such as The Peak to light their lanterns and watch the huge autumn moon rise before eating their moon cakes. Public parks are ablaze with many thousands of lanterns in all colours and sizes and shapes.
     

Chinese New Year Parade

As part of Hong Kong's most vibrant celebrations, the Chinese New Year Parade is not to be missed. A cacophony of colour and sound, tradition burst forth and brings in the new year.

     
  Dragon Boat ("Tuen Ng") Festival

TDragon Boat ("Tuen Ng") Festival is held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is one of Hong Kong's most exciting festivals, featuring fierce dragon boats racing in a lively, vibrant spectacle.
The Festival commemorates the death of a popular Chinese national hero Qu Yuan, who drowned himself in the Mi Lo River during the third century B.C., in protest against a corrupt government. Legend says that as townspeople attempted to rescue him, they beat drums to scare fish away and threw dumplings into the sea to keep the fish from eating Qu Yuan's body.
  Today, Festival activities recall this legendary event. During the Festival period, people eat rice-and-meat Dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves; and many look forward to swimming or even simply dipping their hands in the water. To symbolise attempts to rescue Qu Yuan, the real highlight of the festival can be seen when teams race elaborately decorated dragon boats to the beat of heavy drums. The special boats, which measure more than 10 metres, have ornately carved and painted "dragon" heads and tails, and each boat carries a crew of 20 - 22 paddlers.
Participants in the races train in earnest for the competition. Sitting two abreast, with a steersman at the back and a drummer at the front, the paddlers race to reach the finishing line, urged on by the pounding drums and the roar of the crowds.
   
 
 
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