Cheung Chau Bun Festival, Hong Kong

長洲太平清醮 - 農曆四月初八

Dated: 2nd, May 2009
Location: Cheung Chau, Hong Kong

Photography: jtyc
Official Website here

The weeklong festival climaxes with a large, carnival-like street procession featuring costumed children on stilts held aloft above the crowd, lion dances and other colourful participants. The parade winds its way through the narrow streets to the grounds near the Pak Tai Temple, which are dominated by enormous bamboo towers studded with sweet white buns, and where the main festivities take place. At midnight, athletes scramble up one of the towers in a contest to grab the top-most 'luckiest' ones.

慶典長達整星期。當所有祭祀完成後，最後一個項目就是「搶包山」。一聲號令後，參賽者就爬上包山，盡他們所能搶奪用竹棚搭建包山上的平安包。成功搶到包山上的包子，全家人在來年會行好運，而且搶得包越高，就越好運。