Traditional Festivals in Hong Kong

　　There are five major festivals in the Chinese calendar, with the Lunar New Year being the most important. Gifts and visits are exchanged among friends and relatives, and children receive "lucky money。"

　　During the Qing Ming Festival (Tomb Sweeping Festival) in spring, ancestral graves are visited. On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which falls in early summer, the Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated with dragon boat races and by eating cooked glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Gifts of mooncakes, wine and fruit are exchanged, and adults and children go into parks and the countryside at night with colorful lanterns.

　　Chongyang Festival (Double Ninth Festival) is on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, when many visit their ancestors' graves or hike up mountains in remembrance of an ancient Chinese family's escape from plague and death by fleeing to a mountain top.