HONG KONG CALENDAR
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Chinese New Year is one of the most celebrated festival in Hong Kong.
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| Chinese New Year |
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The Spring Lantern Festival begins fifteen days after New Year's Day.
It is celebrated with lantern shows.
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| Spring Lantern festival |
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The Ching Ming Festival is a Chinese tradition and is a day to clean graves. People offer food to deceased relatives and burn incense.
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Each year, Hong Kong celebrates the birthday of Tin Hau, also
known as the Queen of Heaven and Goddess of the Sea.
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| Tin Hau birthday |
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The first day of May is a public holiday commemorating the workers.
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The year Buddhism first appeared in Hong Kong can be traced back to 428 A when a Buddhist monk
called Bui Dou arrived here and built temples in today's Tuen Mun and Yuen Long area.
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| Buddha's Birthday |
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The Tuen Ng Festival is a Chinese tradition and people
celebrate this festival by eating rice dumplings and having a dragon boat competition.
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| Dragon Boat festival |
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In Hong Kong, the Hungry Ghost Festival is a major Buddhist
and Taoist event. Hungry ghosts are the restless spirits of people who did not have a
funeral. There is no one visiting their graves and they do not receive the gifts
that Chinese people would take to their ancestors to pay respects.
They miss out on food and spirit money.
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| Hungry Ghosts Festival |
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Like the Chinese Lunar New Year, Mid-Autumn festival
is a major festival, celebrated by Chinese all over the world.
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| Mid-Autumn Festival |
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No public holidays during this month.
Chinese families usually celebrate it by eating dumplings or eating a dish made of red beans and glutinous rice to drive away ghosts and evil spirits.
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