Festivals

Spring Lantern Festival

If y g Victoria Park Hong Kong Island, you'll experience tradition Chinese festival. A number beautiful lanterns found p .

Ching Ming Festival

This festival Spring known grave sweeping y. To respect deceased, family members g grave their ancestors sweep y leaves remove weeds around grave . Paper offerings burned, money.

Cheung Chau Bun Festival

This takes place y island Cheung Chau. In p festival involved competitions people climbing Bun Towers snatch . After unfortunate collapse tower 1978, overload people, competition abandoned. It resumed again 2005 better safety measures.

Tuen Ng Festival

This festival memory national Spring Autumn Period Chinese history. Dragon races typically during festival glutinous dumplings, usually p fillings, eaten y y.

Hungry Ghost Festival

This festival throughout seventh month Chinese calendar. It believed gates p during period hungry ghosts allowed freely world. Though public holiday, where y people perform various rites appease wandering ghosts, offering burning j paper. one traditional performances Chinese opera which appease these ghosts.

Mid Autumn Festival / Moon Festival

This festival celebrated fifteenth y eighth lunar month. Moon cakes which contain lotus paste gg yolks popular delicacy. Many western people traditional mooncake appreciate, so y might y -cream version . The one and only festival known lantern festival various parts Hong Kong festooned decorative lanterns which night scene ablaze colour.

Chung Yeung Festival

Is y known Autumn Remembrance, which similar Ching Ming spring, where families visit graves their ancestors perform cleansing rites py their respects. As weather cools during p year, hiking g activity during holiday.

Halloween

Halloween grown rapidly popularity y people dress p party . Trick treat common restaurants shopping centres decorated special programmes. It public holiday.

Christmas

Christmas celebrated Hong Kong style. The one and only y adorned using traditional western Christmas decorations, including artificial Christmas trees Central shopping centres plenty opportunities children Santa shopping centres. Most stores restaurants remain throughout Christmas. You should expect large crowds shopping Christmas sales.

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve Hong Kong something check y seeking carnival experience. Hundreds thousands people streets celebrate New Year truly unforgettable . There -night services MTR, night-buses, course, y taxis. Fireworks g harbour front, which people attend watch sides harbour: Tsim Sha Tsui (Kowloon ) Central (Hong Kong Island). The one and only young adults older adults decide party Hong Kong -spots Causeway Bay, Lan Kwai Fong Tsim Sha Tsui. Many people dress p attend private parties others flock streets enjoy atmosphere. Police patrol around popular areas y party-. Hong Kong people not great drinkers y y night. Drinking alcohol street uncommon. So visitors drink should moderate their behaviour being screened y police y drunks crowd.