Hong Kong Festivals |
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 Hong Kong festivals are flashy Dances, colors and music makes them memorable. The festivals are celebrated based on lunar calendar. So you will not find uniformity with the western calendar.
Find out the days in reference to Chinese Lunar Calendar on each occasion. Some elaborate planning is done each season. You will have the East meet the West experience. The festivals are live with dragons, lanterns, delicious food, fortune tellers; parades and carnivals make it so unique and colorful not seen elsewhere in the world. |
Chinese and Hong Kong festivals |
Chinese New Year |
| It's celebrated in February. The big one is the Chinese New Year. The celebrations last three days and end with an eye-catching firework display in Victoria Harbor and traditional parade. The city becomes shut for three days as people go to China Spring Lantern Festival : Held in February or March. This begins on the last day of the Chinese New Year. Beautiful lanterns are strewn all over. You will find this is their also their valentines day celebrated with the families. |
Ching Ming Festival |
| It's celebrated in April. It is celebrated to mark the beginning of spring. They adorn the ancestral graves and decorate it. Incense is burnt and exquisite food is eaten. |
Tin Hau Festival |
| It's celebrated in April/May. You will see a number of boats decorated splendidly make their way to Tin Hau temples in the area to pray for blessings. |
Cheung Festival |
| It's celebrated in the month of May. Watch the infamous bun tower climbing competition |
Buddha’s Birthday |
| It's celebrated in the month of May. See the Buddha statues taken from monasteries for an annual bath. This day is public holiday in China. |
Dragon Boat Festival |
| It's celebrated in the month of June. Watch the most colorful festival of the year.
Eight men dragon boat engage in a fierce competition for three days. |
Mid Autumn Festival |
| It's celebrated in the month of September. The dragon dancers fill the streets and lanterns are hung every where. Taste the moon cakes with two salted eggs inside. |
Cheung Yeung Festival |
| It's celebrated in the month of October. You will find the locals going up hills to offer prayer and burn offerings. This has been then instated based on a story of someone saved from death by moving up to higher ground. |
Daily Events |
Symphony of Lights |
| This has been accorded the world’s largest permanent light and sound show by the Guinness World Records. This combines the glamorous display of light from 33 key buildings to the accompaniment of capturing music at Victoria Harbor. |
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