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Hong Kong Festivals 2010

The first day of January	1 Jan
Day before Chinese New Year	13 Feb
Chinese New Year of the Tiger	14 Feb
The second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year	15 Feb
Che Kung's Birthday	15 Feb
The third day of the Lunar New Year	16 Feb
Spring Lantern Festival / Yuen Siu	28 Feb
Chinese Groundhog Day	6 Mar
Good Friday	2 Apr
The day following Good Friday	3 Apr
Easter Monday and Ching Ming Festival / Qing Ming	5 Apr
The day following Ching Ming	6 Apr
Birthday of Tin Hau	6 May
May day	1 May
Buddha’s Birthday and Cheung Chau Bun Festival	21 May
Tam Kung's Birthday+	21 May
Tuen Ng / Dragon Boat Festival	16 Jun
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day	1 July
Kwan Tai / Kwan Gon's Birthday	4 Aug
Seventh Goddess' Day / Tsat-je	16 Aug
Chinese Ghosts Festival / Yue Lan	23 Aug
Confucius' Birthday/Teacher's Day+	4 Sep
Chinese National Day	1 Oct
Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival / Moon Festival	22 Sep evening
Day after Mid-Autumn Festival	23 Sep
Monkey King Festival	23 Sep
Chung Yeung Festival	16 Oct
Winter Solstice	22 Dec
Christmas Day	25 Dec
Boxing Day	26 Dec
The first week-day after Christmas day	27 Dec

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Bun Festival 2008 and Photos

Check out the schedule for the bun tower climbing competition this year.

Date / Time	Events (located at the soccer pitch outside Pak Tai Temple)
26 Apr 08 2pm - 5pm	Training on climbing the bun towers - provided by the Hong Kong Mountaineering Union.
27 Apr 08 10am - 5pm
3 May 08 10am - 1pm
3 May 08 2pm - 6pm	Selection of Finalists - 12 applicants who have completed the training and have reached the designated height of the bun tower and hit the object required within the shortest time will be allowed to enter the competition.
12 May 08 midnight	Bun Scrambling competition: To win, one has to collect as much as possible the highest scores buns within the specified time. In case of a tie, their scores in the selection of finalists will be used.

Freshly baked buns.	Some people may prefer the clean fresh buns than the blessed one from the bun towers.
Worshipping the 3 gods.	The jock sticks are as tall as a person.
	Food and wine for worshipping.
Buns for the ghosts.	This particular Chinese opera wishes everybody on Cheung Chau healthy, happy and prosperity.
Outside the temple there were some people playing Kung Fu, among which 2 were westerners!	Old traditional Chinese street stall - flour dolls
Sedan for the god.	"The towers" - which look identical every year.
This is how you get a good picture or video of the festival procession.	The procession didn't start until 2p.m. from the temple but these people were occupying good seat for themselves at 11a.m.
Getting ready - this is the "float" where the child sits.	The float
The float	Child dressed as Olympic athlete for the Beijing 2008 Olympic
The float	The child was actually sitting down though the garment covers the chair.
Monkey king
"bun tower" for the climbers