Chung Yeung Festival is one of the important Hong Kong events. The festival is celebrated on the ninth moon day to remember and pay tribute to the forefathers. The festival is also known as the Autumn Remembrance and bears similarity with the Ching Ming festival, which is celebrated during the spring season.
The ninth moon day varies with the visual sighting of the moon in the Hong Kong sky. The moon may be sighted either in the month of September or October. On the festival day, families visit the graveyards of their forefathers to pay respect. Before paying respect to the ancestors the family members first clean the place as a pat of their rites and then pay respect to the dead.On that day families bring food like Ko, which is a Chinese
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cake. It is widely believed among the Hong Kong nationals, that if anyone consumes the cake then he will succeed in life.
The day of the Chung Yeung festival in Hong Kong is also celebrated as the day hiking. The festival marks Woon King's journey, a ruler of the Han Dynasty, with his family to a high place on the ninth moon day. On his return, the Woon family found his domesticated animals butchered. However, in contemporary times, Hong Kong nationals go to the hills for picnic.
The Chung Yeung festival is one of the festivals in Hong Kong celebrated in the month of September or October, which solely depends upon the ninth moon day. Generally at that time of the year the weather remains pleasant with clear skies and cool weather. As such, people prefer to go for hiking on this festival day.
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