Cheung Chau Bun Festival

Every year Cheung Chau vibrates with life as the annual Bun festival is held in it in the month of May. For over a week people are in a festive mood.

This unique festival is steeped in tradition. It features 16 meters high bamboo towers covered with sweet buns. The festival also encompasses daily prayers for a calm sea and plentiful catches as the new fishing season commences.

During the colorful week- long celebration, children parade in traditional costumes, religious ceremonies are held and Chinese opera is staged. The actual dates for this festival are chosen each year by divination.

This festival is supposed to be a 100 years old. Enormous bamboo towers studded with white Chinese bun and effigies of three gods dominate the grounds near the Pak Tai Temple, where the main festivities take place. The festival that lasts for about a week climaxes with a large, colorful street procession, which features costumed children on stilts in a carnival atmosphere that winds its way through the streets. A large number of people participate in the festival.

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Contact Information

Cheung Chau Bun Festival
Cheung Chau Island
999077 Hong Kong

Tel. +1185228076543
info@cheungchau.org
http://www.cheungchau.org