Children as Part
of Worldwide Traditions
Chung Yueng Festival
Tse-Kin (Pantium) Wong
from Hong Kong
In Hong Kong there is a holiday
called Chung Yueng Festival. It is celebrated on
September 9th of the Lunar
calendar. People usually go hiking; they go to a high place such as a hill.
The story of this holiday
was about a family. On that day, a family went to a hill to do something.
When they came back home, they found all the animals had died. They didn't
know what happened. They thought that going to a high place saved their
lives. Because people wanted to avoid getting killed, we have Chung Yueng
Festival today.
However, people celebrate
the same way on Ching Ming Festival. They worship their ancestors in the
cemetery, so we have two days a year to worship our ancestors.
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