Hong Kong’s Cheung Chau bun festival 2019 ends on Buddha's Birthday
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The annual Bun Festival came to a close on Hong Kong’s island of Cheung Chau wrapping up as the city celebrated a public holiday for Buddha's Birthday on May 12, 2019. The five-day event included traditional lion dances, parades and a competitive scramble up a tower covered with lucky buns.
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The cultural significance moved on with new twists:It was that one day of the year when the sleepy island was packed with visitors, and the whole village was resonated by sound of drum and joy. Each year, Cheung Chau Bun Festival has
attracted tens of thousands local and foreign tourists to come and celebrate this one-of-a-kind religious origins. Over 100 years of history, Cheung Chau Bun Festival showcases a variety of fun and exciting cultural significance that has been spectated and passed down for generations.
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Thousands celebrate bun festival 2018 on Cheung Chau
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Thousands of people have gathered on the island of Cheung Chau in Hong Kong to celebrate the annual bun festival. According to local legend, the festival originated after the god Pak Tai drove a deadly plague away from the island. The culmination of the festival takes place on Buddha’s birthday with a scramble up an 18-metre bun tower.
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Lucky buns,”(平安包) which have the Chinese characters ‘Ping An’, means ‘peace’ on their surface, are popular edible souvenirs for the tens of thousands of people who flock to the island for the festival every year.
Thousands take part in Hong Kong's Cheung Chau Bun festival
(22 May 2018) Thousands of people flocked to an outlying island in Hong Kong on Tuesday to celebrate the Cheung Chau Bun festival.
The event is one of the oldest and most colourful in Hong Kong and began around 100 years ago after a deadly plague devastated the island.
According to local folklore, villagers built an altar in front of the Pak Tai temple and used white steamed buns as an offering to drive away evil spirits.
Those traditions have since evolved into a bun-scrambling competition, dragon dancers, and a colourful parade featuring children dressed as deities floating on poles.
In recent years, children have also dressed as local political figures and celebrities.
The city's chief executive is usually represented on one of the poles. Four-year-old Ava Wong was given the honour of representing the current incumbent, Carrie Lam, at this year's event.
Contestants will also take part in a bun-scrambling competition, which will see them race up a 14 metre (45 foot) bamboo tower to snatch as many plastic buns as possible.
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Cheung Chau Bun Festival 2019
The Cheung Chau Bun Festival 2019 is finally over! Not only did we savour many delicious street food but we also enjoyed the Bun Scrambling Competition which was held at the soccer pitch of the Pak Tai Temple at 12am on 12th May. 12 competitors fought against each other to scale the 14-metre high bun tower filled with 9,000 buns. All competitors must grab as many buns as possible within a 3-minute time frame before returning to the ground to emerge as winner.
Thousands arrive for the Cheung Chau bun festival
Thousands of visitors arrive on the tiny island of Cheung Chau for week-long bun frestival.
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Cheung Chau Bun Festival
This week-long celebration includes a fantastic parade of children dressed up as mythological Chinese characters as well as a bun tower scrambling competition where contestants clamber up a 60-foot-high tower stacked with buns trying to grab the lucky buns. This amazing festival attracts thousands upon thousands of locals and overseas tourists every year and it gets its name from the huge towers of lucky buns.
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Thousands take part in Hong Kong's Cheung Chau Bun festival
(22 May 2018) THOUSANDS TAKE PART IN HONG KONG'S CHEUNG CHAU BUN FESTIVAL
Thousands of people flocked to an outlying island in Hong Kong on Tuesday (22 MAY 2018) to celebrate the Cheung Chau Bun festival.
The event is one of the oldest and most colourful in Hong Kong and began around 100 years ago after a deadly plague devastated the island.
According to local folklore, villagers built an altar in front of the Pak Tai temple and used white steamed buns as an offering to drive away evil spirits.
Those traditions have since evolved into a bun-scrambling competition, dragon dancers, and a colourful parade featuring children dressed as deities floating on poles.
In recent years, children have also dressed as local political figures and celebrities.
The city's chief executive is usually represented on one of the poles. Four-year-old Ava Wong was given the honour of representing the current incumbent, Carrie Lam, at this year's event.
Contestants will also take part in a bun-scrambling competition, which will see them race up a 14 metre (45 foot) bamboo tower to snatch as many plastic buns as possible.
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BUN FESTIVAL CREATES BIG BUSINESS FOR HONG KONG
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Hong Kong celebrates annual bun festival
(14 May 2016) Local residents and tourists took part in the Cheung Chau Bun Festival on Saturday.
The festival, which takes place on Cheung Chau island, southwest of Hong Kong island, originated about 100 years ago when residents were almost wiped out by a deadly epidemic.
Since then, villagers have performed a series of rituals to give thanks to various deities for surviving the plague.
Highlights of the festival include lion dances as well as children dressed in the colourful costumes of figures from Chinese history.
Later on Saturday night, contestants will take part in bun-scrambling - a competition that involves racing up a 14-metre (15 yards) bamboo tower to collect as many buns as possible.
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Meeting the World - The Cheung Chau Bun Festival
Hong Kong is famous for its festivals, and whilst the Cheung Chau Bun Festival might be one of many festivals that take place on the island, its a particularly epic one. Its so unique that no other country celebrates the festival of the buns in the way that you will see on this video.
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Cheung Chau Bun Festival, Hong Kong
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The Cheung Chau Bun Festival falls on the fifth to the ninth days of the fourth lunar month.
Every year, the people of Cheung Chau get busy making papier-mâché effigies of deities, preparing costumes, baking buns and building a bamboo tower. They’re preparing for the thousands of people that will soon descend upon their tiny island for what Time.com deemed one of the world's 'Top 10 Quirky Local Festivals'.
It all started with a plague that devastated Cheung Chau in the late Qing dynasty (1644–1911). The islanders built an altar in front of the Pak Tai Temple and petitioned the god Pak Tai to drive off the evil spirits besieging the island, while parading statues of deities through the narrow lanes of their village. The plague ended after the performance of these Taoist rituals and 100 years later the rituals are still performed in a festival that is listed as an intangible part of China’s cultural heritage.
For the locals, this is the continuation of their customs. The islanders have a strong sense of community and those who have left to work elsewhere will return for this celebration. For the thousands who crowd the ferry boats to the erstwhile pirate haven, this is the spectacular Cheung Chau Bun Festival. The weeklong event includes Taoist ceremonies and music, a parade, lion dances, drum beating and an exciting Bun Scrambling Competition.
The Piu Sik (Floating Colours) Parade
This dramatic reenactment of the ceremonial parade held to drive away a plague a century ago sees young children, dressed in the guises of traditional deities and modern celebrities, balance on poles and accompanied by gongs and lion dancers, appearing to float above the crowds in a carnival-like procession.
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