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Flower plaques are a type of traditional Chinese craft made to be a temporary banner and usually serves as an entrance to areas of celebration. It is built as a sign of prosperity, luck and happiness to celebrate festivals, weddings and…

Residents built an altar in front of the Pak Tai Temple and hired priests to appease the spirits of those that died during the outbreak. The plague eventually ended after these rituals were performed. More than 100 years later, the festival marks the…

The centrepiece of the festival is at Pak Tai Temple where the "Bun Mountains" or "Bun Towers"(包山) stand. These are three giant 60-feet bamboo towers covered with buns. It is these bun-covered towers that give the festival its name.
From the 1800s,…

In Cheung Chau Bun Festival, many vendors on the streets sell various types of colorful decorations and food offerings, like Ping On Bun and tea. They sell various types of masks, hats, mitresses. They are not very expensive and unlike other typical…