Cheung Chau Bun Festival 12-18 May 2013

Cheung Chau Bun Festival 12-18 May 2013
Who to believe? Some say the Cheung Chau Bun Festival is held every year to placate the ghosts of the victims of pirates who used the dumbbell-shaped island as their lair, while others maintain it a commemorates the liberation of the island’s residents from a plague some 200 years Cheung Chau Bun Festivalago. What pretty much everyone is agreed on, though, is that it’s a time for one big party!   Officially the Cheung Chau Bun Festival falls on the fifth to the ninth days of the fourth lunar month – this year’s festivities go from May 12 to 18, with a Chinese Opera performance every night to May 21 at Pak Tai Temple, starting at 7:30pm. But the festival’s undoubted highlight will be a spectacular parade from 2-4pm and a midnight ‘bun snatching’ competition on 17 May centred around the Pak Tai Temple Plaza and adjacent Football Court.

 

The complete event schedule is as follows:

Date Time Activities Location
12 May Noon to 6pm Climbing Carnival
• Climbing demonstrations
• Game stalls
• Variety shows
Soccer Pitch of Pak Tai Temple Playground
14 May 10am to 9pm • Ceremony inviting deities to Pak Tai Temple
• Ritual marking start of Bun Festival
Pak Tai Temple Plaza
14 – 21 May 7:30pm to 11pm • Chinese opera performances Pak Tai Temple Plaza
16 May 2:30pm to 3:15pm 3:45pm • Lion and Unicorn Dances
• Ritual and Chinese Acrobatic Performances
Pak Tai Temple Plaza
17 May 10:30am
2pm
Midnight
• Unicorn and Kung Fu Performance
• Bun Festival Parade
• Bun Scrambling Competition*
Pak Tai Temple Plaza
18 May 2pm • Ceremony to send the deities back to their temples Pak Tai Temple Plaza

 

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