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	Hong Kong - Festivals
		Bun Festival (太平清醮 in Chinese, "醮" being a Taoist sacrificial ceremony) is a traditional Chinese festival in Hong Kong.
		The festival is staged every year on the island of Cheung Chau to mark the Eighth day of the Fourth Moon, in the Chinese calendar (usually in early May).
		One of the reputed origins of this festival is that in the 18th Century, the island of Cheung Chau was devastated by a plague and infiltrated by pirates — until local fishermen brought an image of the god Pak Tai to the island.
	www.allabout-hong-kong.com /Festivals-128.html (1175 words)

	Cheung Chau Bun Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cheung Chau Bun Festival or Cheung Chau Da Jiu Festival (Traditional Chinese: 包山節 or 長洲太平清醮, 醮 being a Taoist sacrificial ceremony) is a traditional Chinese festival in Hong Kong.
		The festival is staged every year on the island of Cheung Chau to mark the Eighth day of the Fourth Moon, in the Chinese calendar (usually in early May).
		One of the reputed origins of this festival is that in the 18th Century, the island of Cheung Chau was devastated by a plague and infiltrated by pirates — until local fishermen brought an image of the god Pak Tai to the island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cheung_Chau_Bun_Festival (1409 words)

	Cheung Chau's Bun Festival
		Cheung Chau's Bun Festival: Hong Kong's Cheung Chau Island is a living picture postcard of a quiet fishing and rural community, but during the four days of its annual Bun Festival it is inundated with thousands of visitors.
		The Bun Festival is not a traditional Chinese celebration.
		This observance is commonly referred to as the "Bun Festival" - which is an English nickname, not a translation from the Cantonese - because of the grand finale.
	www.regit.com /hongkong/festival/chgchau.htm (483 words)

	Thailand festival events Thailand festival events
		Thailand has many festivals, and civil and religious celebrations, that are beautiful symbolically and fascinating to witness and participate in.
		The festival is celebrated in honor of the goddess of waterways Mae Kongkha.
		The festival is staged to ensure plentiful rains during the rice planting season.
	www.thailandtraveltours.com /thai-festivals-thaifestivals-thai-festivals.htm (375 words)

	Hong Kong - Festivals (April)
		There is only one Bun Festival in all the world and only takes place once a year on the Cheung Chau Island in Hong Kong.
		The distribution of the buns at midnight on the last night is the climax towards which everything moves.
		At midnight, after the ghosts have had their fill of the spiritual essence of the buns, the crowds is invited to scramble for the material remains.
	www.members.tripod.com /wpd8/festivals_4.html (660 words)

	FirstCoast News.com - Print Article
		The official 46-foot bun climbing tower, 10-feet in diameter, is now buttressed by a concrete foundation designed by government architects and supported by a steel frame.
		Bun snatching competitors are trained by the Hong Kong Mountaineering Union.
		On Sunday, bun snatchers wearing gloves with ropes attached to their bodies scrambled up the scaffolding -- free of buns for now -- in a preliminary competition.
	www.firstcoastnews.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=36476 (194 words)

	The Bun Festival in Cheung Chau
		In the past, the festival reached its climax with the rite of "snatching the bun towers"' in which villagers competed with each other in scrambling up the mountains to grab the lucky buns.
		Buns are now distributed, and an exhilarating parade has replaced the rite as the climax of the festival.
		They are called the "nether buns", as no one can eat them until the ghosts have had their fill, but are also referred to as the "lucky buns"' since the locals believe that eating the buns will bring them good luck.
	www.chinavista.com /experience/bun/festival.html (1373 words)

	Pee Ta Khon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pee Ta Khon (the Ghost Festival) is the most common name for a group of festivals held in Dan Sai, Loei province, Isan, Thailand.
		It is composed of a number of individual festivals: Pee Ta Khon, the Ghost Festival; the Rocket Festival; and Bun Pra Wate, a merit-making ceremony normally held in March.
		The origins of this part of the festival are traditionally ascribed to a Jataka story in which the Buddha made a long journey and was presumed dead.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pee_Ta_Khon (256 words)

	Hong Kong Festivals and Events in Hong Kong
		Festivals occur throughout the year, so you may be lucky enough to see one during your visit.
		To experience the island life and the Bun Festival celebrations, a special tour is designed to enable visitors to visit the two most popular outlying islands of Lamma Island and Cheung Chau Island.
		The Mid-Autumn Festival celebrates the harvest moon and is a special time for children and families, who take colorful lanterns to parks, beaches and hilltops to gaze at the moon.
	www.yourrooms.com /hongkong_hotels/festivals.htm (502 words)

	Cheung Chau Bun Festival
		Cheung Chau Bun Festival or Cheung Chau Da Jiu Festival (Traditional Chinese: 長洲太平清醮) is a traditional Chinese festival on the island of Cheung Chau in Hong Kong.
		Cheung Chau's Bun Festival, which draws tens of thousands of local and overseas tourists every year, is staged to mark the Eighth day of the Fourth Moon, in the Chinese calendar (usually in early May).
		The centrepiece of the festival is at Pak Tai Temple where are the "Bun Mountains" or "Bun Towers"(包山;), three giant 60-feet bamboo towers covered with buns.
	chinatown.cwok.com /holidays-festivals/cheung_chau_bun_festival-07.htm (1375 words)

	The Puppet Lab Travel Diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		They were told to have a festival and parade and somehow buns piled in pyramids comes into that.
		We had lunch at a street side cafe and because of the festival all of the food is vegetarian.
		White sticky buns stamped with a red symbol are piled on top of eacg other high into the air.
	www.puppet-lab.com /diary/modules/blog/index.php?post_id=209 (513 words)

	Asian Festival Food Traditions and History
		In Taiwan, the Ghost Festival starts with the slaughter of a pig and sheep, which together with a vast amount of wine and meat is offered to one's ancestors and ghosts from the underworld.
		The Bun Festival is a spring planting type festival at the start of the fishing season and is designed to pay tribute to Pak Tai, the Taoist god of the sea.
		The buns used are much like the Long Life Bun appearing on New Year tables and may be filled with barbequed pork or made with coconut milk for a richer texture.
	www.culinarykingdom.com /articles_festivalfoods_aisia.htm (912 words)

	The Jamaica Star :: News :: Bun festival swells :: April 11, 2006
		Marlene and Delroy Wizzard during a bun eating contest at the 2006 Bun and Cheese Festival held at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre on Sunday.
		The festival seemed to have received an adequate helping of yeast as it had its largest turnout in its three years of existence on Sunday on the Lawns of the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre.
		Those of the bun adventurous variety may have been sated but unfortunately there was little other food other than snackables to be had.
	www.jamaica-star.com /thestar/20060411/news/news6.html (496 words)

	NEWS - STRANGE - Comcast.net
		Hong Kong is relaunching the annual bun snatching tradition on suburban Cheung Chau island after a 26-year break with help from modern mountaineers and engineers.
		The official 46-feet bun climbing tower, 10-feet in diameter, is now buttressed by a concrete foundation designed by government architects and supported by a steel frame.
		Cheung Chau Bun Festival Committee Chairman Yung Chi-ming said the relaunch of the competition is a boon for the island.
	www.comcast.net /news/strange/index.jsp?cat=STRANGE&fn=/2005/05/02/122031.html (332 words)

	DiscoverHongKong - Heritage - Chinese Festivals - Cheung Chau Bun Festival
		A celebration dominated by white chinese buns is quite a spectacle, and it is one not to be missed.
		The festival that lasts for about a week climaxes with a large, colourful street procession, which features costumed children on stilts in a carnival atmosphere that winds its way through the streets.
		One of the reputed origins of this popular festival, which attracts tourists by the tens of thousands each year, involves a plague on the island hundreds of years ago.
	www.discoverhongkong.com /eng/heritage/festivals/he_fest_cheu.jhtml (311 words)

	Upcoming.org: Bun Festival at Cheung Chau Island (Monday, September 19, 2005)
		The buns are thought to ensure smooth sailing for the fishing boats and bring good fortune and plentiful catches.
		No Chinese festival is complete without lion and dragon dancers, but this island's quirk is the children dressed as mythological and modern heroes suspended above the crowds on the tips of swords and paper fans.
		Though such treatment of children may be disturbing to a Western mindset it is such a unique festival that anthropologists are drawn to it every year and parents consider it a great honour for their offspring to be part of the procession.
	upcoming.org /event/32039 (521 words)

	Hong Kong : Hotels , Travel Information guide / Festivel
		As the Chinese observe their own calendar, most of the dates of the festivals are listed in accordance with it, though the equivalent month in the international calendar is also stated.
		Celebrated on Cheung Chau Island, this festival is held in honour of the deity Pak Tai, who drove away evil spirits from the island.
		The highlights of this festival are the boat races - attended by teams from all over the world - and the delicious meat-and-rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves.
	www.hong-kong-hotels.ws /festive.html (885 words)

	Travel Video Television News
		The buns are meant to placate the hungry ghosts of pirate victims that are said to roam the peaceful island in search of food at this time of year.
		The festival radically transforms Cheung Chau, a normally tranquil island located about an hour southwest of the Hong Kong mainland by ferry. People who linger after the festival will find a quiet fishing community that seems almost lost in time with very few motorized vehicles or high-rise buildings.
		Among those offering a special "2005 Bun Festival and Island Hopping Tour" is HKKF Travel Ltd. The day-long tour includes a sail to Lamma Island aboard an exclusive ferry, a guided walking tour of the island and a seafood lunch at one of the open-air restaurants along the coast.
	travelvideo.tv /news/more.php?id=5063_0_1_0_M (579 words)

	FT.com / Travel / City guides
		Young men used to scale 8-m (26-ft) towers covered in buns until in the 1970s they started falling off and the practice was banned.
		Also known as the grave-sweeping festival, ching ming literally means "clear and bright".
		This festival commemorates a Han Dynasty scholar who took his family up a hill and came back to find the rest of his village murdered.
	www.ft.com /arts/travel/hongkong/festivals (509 words)

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		The Bun Bang Fai is associated with the Fertility Ritual and is held just prior to the rainy season.
	www.thailandhotelstours.com /festivals-in-thailand/bun-bang-fai-rocket-festival.html (364 words)

	Festivals - Hong Kong Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		The Festival, also known as Tuen Ng Festival, commemorates the death of a popular Chinese national hero, Qu Yuan, who drowned himself in the Mi Lo River over 2,000 years ago to protest against the corrupt rulers.
		Also known as Autumn Remembrance, this festival is similar to Ching Ming in the spring, in that families journey to the graves of their ancestors to perform cleansing rites and pay their respects.
		The buns would then be sold or distributed to those who did not join in the competition.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Asia/Hong_Kong/Local_Customs-Hong_Kong-Festivals-BR-1.html (1760 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Hong Kong's holy bun fight back
		Huge bamboo towers were built and covered in sweet buns, which are blessed by monks, for the annual event.
		The festival on Cheung Chau is supposed to ease the spirits of the people who died when plague struck the island in the 19th Century.
		Then, at the culmination of the festival, there is the bun scramble where points are awarded for each confection, depending on where it was collected from.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4549137.stm (328 words)

	Interactions 1 Reading \| Read
		During the festival, also known as "the Festival of the Bun Hills," the children dress in colorful costumes.
		Yes, the buns, which are blessed, are passed out on the last day of the festival for people to enjoy.
		The festival happens during with the town's "fiestas" celebrating the patron saint, and there is plenty of food, drink, and merriment.
	highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/0072330686/student_view0/chapter10/read.html (839 words)

	Bun Wat Phu 2000
		Novice monks at the Bun Wat Phu festival, February 2000.
		Festival-goers at the Bun Wat Phu festival, February 2000.
		The three-day festival of Bun Wat Phu is part of the Magha Puja celebration, which takes place on the full moon of the third lunar month and which commemorates a speech given by the Buddha.
	www.raingod.com /angus/Gallery/Photos/Asia/Laos/BunWatPhu.html (116 words)

	Rocket Festival History & Cartoon by Brownielocks.
		The Rocket Festival was brought to the United States by immigrating Laotians in the 1970's and 1980's.
		The celebration is known as "Bun Bang Fai" (bun means "festival" in Laos) and the original purpose was to guarantee good crops by requesting rain to their God, Phaya Thaen, and thus marking the coming of their rainy season.
		The festival name comes from the main event, which is a contest among "wat" (meaning temple) communities to see which can build and launch the most successful rocket.
	www.brownielocks.com /rocket.html (463 words)

	Bun-Ching Lam
		A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, she also won the Rome Prize and was awarded first prizes at the Aspen Music Festival, the Northwest Composer's Symposium, and the highest honor at the Shanghai Music Competition, which was the first international composers' contest to take place in China.
		Her compositions have been featured in festivals around the world such as the Melbourne Festival (Australia), Bang on a Can (New York), New Music America (Los Angeles), Tokyo Summer Festival, Pacific Sounding (Japan), Hong Kong Arts Festival, ISCM World Music Days (Hong Kong), Steirische Herbst (Austria), and the 24 Heures Communication (Belgium).
		In 2002, Bun-Ching Lam had the privilege to be one of the ten alumni invited to speak in the Distinguished Alumni Lecture series celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Chung Chi College in Hong Kong, where she received her undergraduate education.
	www.bunchinglam.com /biography.htm (618 words)

	USATODAY.com - A dozen contestants race to snatch buns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The buns — stuffed with lotus seed paste — were divided into three zones, with the higher buns worth more points.
		Officials revived the tradition, part of an annual "bun festival," this year after implementing improved safety measures.
		The festival originated hundreds of years ago when Cheung Chau residents dressed up as gods to ward off evil spirits they believed to be responsible for a plague, according to one account.
	www.usatoday.com /news/offbeat/2005-05-16-bun-snatching_x.htm?csp=34 (386 words)

	hongkong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Bun Festival is a spirit soothing ritual, but it is not known exactly which spirits are being pacified.
		In their honor all food is vegetarian; the priest at the Pak Tai Temple reads a decree stating that during the festival no animal or fish is to be killed or eaten on the island.
		The third day of the festival is the most interesting, featuring a grand procession of stilt walkers, costumed dancers and floats depicting the various human virtues and vices.
	www.bsu.edu /World2000/research/howell/hongkong.html (1433 words)

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