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Bun Festival is a very exciting and busy festival, and a major program promoted by the Hong Kong Tourism Development Board. It starts from April 6 of the lunar calendar, and climaxes with the parade-in-the-air on April 8 of the lunar calendar which coincides with the Buddha’s Birthday. The festival lasts for five days, encompassing sacrificial rituals, like “Welcoming the deities”, “Zouwuchao” “Chaoyou”, and “Seeing off the deities”. The grand parade, dancing lions and auspicious kylin performances, and bun snatching are most popular activities. Besides, during the festival, the entire island goes vegetarian, so tourists cannot find any restaurant that sells meat dishes or seafood. Even the local McDonald's restaurant would just sell burgers made of mush rooms, that’s “While in Rome, do as the Romans do”.

Bun Snatching

“Bun-snatching” is a traditional custom in Cheung Chau, Hong Kong. Story has it that Bun Snatching in Cheung Chau began early during the Qing Dynasty in the 18th century. During the Bun Festival, three Bun Towers, covered with buns, will be erected in front of the Pak Tai Temple. About 13-meter tall and built only with bamboo, each Bun Tower carries about 16000 buns. The buns, called “You Bao” or “Ping’an Bao” , are lotus-seed-paste buns being stamped the character “寿” in red that used to be offered to deities. Bun Snatching is usually held on the last night of the Bun Festival. At an order of the village head, several hundred men will race up the tower to get hold of the buns. According to traditions, the more buns they snatch, the better fortune they will bring to their family, hence the chaotic scene of pushing, shoving, and even pyramid building from time to time, which is fraught with perils. In just a few minutes, the Bun Towers will be empted, and the snatched buns will be allocated to other residents.

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Modern Bun Snatching

Modern Bun Snatching

At zero o’clock in the morning on May 16, 2005, the Bun Snatching activity was reintroduced after 26 years’ closure. Compared with the traditional one, the modern Bun Snatching activity made...
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Cheung Chau

Cheung Chau is located southwest of Hong Kong Island. It covers an area of about 3 square kilometers. Although it has only 30,000 to 40,000 residents, it is still the most populous outlying island...

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