The Cheung Chau Bun Festival

The Cheung Chau Bun Festival is a very popular annual event held in Hong Kong. The festival dates fall on the fifth to the ninth days of the fourth lunar month. This year it will commence from 22 to 26 of May. This is a very meaningful festival as the people of Cheung Chau make papier-mache effigies of deities with costumes, baking buns besides building a bamboo tower. This festival is so renowned around the world so much so that it appears in the Top 10 Quirky Local Festivals in Time.com. Thousands upon thousands of people from all over the world flock to Cheung Chau, Hong Kong just to be part of this festival and the accommodations get fully booked way ahead of the event. Cosmo Hotel Hong Kong is one of the sought after luxury accommodations that offer special stay deals among Hong Kong hotel discounts.

During the Qing dynasty towards its end a plague devastated Cheung Chau and the islanders built an altar in front of the Pak Tai Temple and petitioned god Pak Tai to deliver them from the demonic spirits that were destroying the island. They went all around the streets of the village parading statues of deities they built. The plague saw an end after the Taoist rituals were performed and completed and since then every year the spiritually significant festival is held to please the deities and for the protection of the island.