Join the World’s Top 10 Quirky Local festivals named by TIME magazine with us - Cheung Chau Bun festival 長洲太平清醮!
Due to the pandemic, the most exciting parts - Bun Scrambling Competition (搶包山) and parade (Piu Sik 飄色) is cancelled. However, traditional rituals will be held as usual.
Da Jiu (打醮) is a Taoist ritual held in Cheung Chau, a small island in Hong Kong, and every year to ask for peace from Taoist deities. The island was saved from the plague after Da Jiu was performed a 100 years ago.
What is Piu Sik Parade (Floating colour parade)?
The Parade sees young children, dressed in guises of deities or modern celebrities, balanced on piles, which appeared to be floating above the crowds to appease wandering ghosts.
What is Bun Scrambling Competition?
It is a tradition that young men in the village climbed up a giant 60-feet bamboo towers covered with buns and try to grab as many buns - said to bring good luck and health – from the top.
The government banned the event after the tragedy in 1972 - two bun towers fell during the contest. The event resumed in 2005, but only 12 selected people can join the competition.
How to go?
Take a ferry from Central Pier 5 at Central
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Due to the pandemic, the most exciting parts - Bun Scrambling Competition (搶包山) and parade (Piu Sik 飄色) is cancelled. However, traditional rituals will be held as usual.
Da Jiu (打醮) is a Taoist ritual held in Cheung Chau, a small island in Hong Kong, and every year to ask for peace from Taoist deities. The island was saved from the plague after Da Jiu was performed a 100 years ago.
What is Piu Sik Parade (Floating colour parade)?
The Parade sees young children, dressed in guises of deities or modern celebrities, balanced on piles, which appeared to be floating above the crowds to appease wandering ghosts.
What is Bun Scrambling Competition?
It is a tradition that young men in the village climbed up a giant 60-feet bamboo towers covered with buns and try to grab as many buns - said to bring good luck and health – from the top.
The government banned the event after the tragedy in 1972 - two bun towers fell during the contest. The event resumed in 2005, but only 12 selected people can join the competition.
How to go?
Take a ferry from Central Pier 5 at Central
Check out our Instagram: @explore_hongkong
https://www.instagram.com/explore_hongkong
For contact: explorehongkong@hotmail.com
Check out our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/explorehkong