What are the holiday customs in Hong Kong?

2. The day before the Lunar New Year

3. Lunar New Year

4. Lunar New Year

5. Tomb-Sweeping Day (5 April)

6. Labor Day (May 1 day)

7. Dragon Boat Festival

8. Anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (July 1)

9. The day after Mid-Autumn Festival

10. National Day (10, 1)

1 1. Double Ninth Festival

12. Winter solstice (65438+February 22nd) or Christmas Day (65438+February 25th) (at the option of the employer).

Any employee can enjoy the above statutory holidays. If the statutory holiday coincides with the rest day of the workers, it shall be made up the next day. Make-up holidays should not be legal holidays, other holidays, substitute holidays or rest days. If an employee has been employed under a continuous contract for three months, he can enjoy holiday pay equal to the employee's normal salary on that day.

Besides Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Lantern Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, there are also special festivals such as Taiping Tomb-Sweeping Day, Tan Gong's birthday and Che Gong's birthday.

At the same time, the Hong Kong government has also added many major activities and special festivals, the most famous of which is the "Shopping Festival" and the others are the "Computer Festival", which are basically for shopping, so shopping before such festivals will have a great discount, even a surprise, so friends who want to go shopping in Hong Kong must go.

Traditional festivals with Hong Kong characteristics

Taiping Tomb-Sweeping Day (the eighth day of the fourth lunar month every year)

Taiping Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as Baoshan Festival, is an authentic traditional festival in Hong Kong, which is celebrated by Cheung Chau residents every year.

In this traditional festival, there are three treasure mountains made of bamboo sheds and covered with safety bags in front of the Beidi Temple.

The scenery parade is the climax of the festival. Gone with the Wind, Lion Awakening and Kirin teams are cruising on the island. Children dressed up as ancient and modern figures or legends, stood on the support and shuttled through the streets. Because of Baoshan, Taiping Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called Baoshan Festival. The celebration of Taiping Tomb-Sweeping Day will last for a week. When all the sacrifices are finished, the last project is the activity of "robbing Baoshan". After giving the order, the contestants will climb up Baoshan and try their best to grab the buns and distribute them to other residents.

Tan Gong's birthday (the eighth day of the fourth lunar month)

Tan Gong's birthday is one of the local festivals in Hong Kong, which originated from a man named "Tan Gong". Tan Gong is another patron saint of the ocean, bringing peace and joy to fishermen.

The main celebrations of Tan Gong's birthday were held in Shau Kei Wan and Happy Valley. Shau Kei Wan, located in the east of Hong Kong Island, used to be a fishing port. Once upon a time, on Tan Gong's birthday, many good citizens would take part in parades, burn incense and worship to commemorate Tan Gong's deeds of expelling the plague for residents. The scene is very lively. This unique parade, which was once suspended due to urban construction, is now making a comeback, and festivals such as dragon and lion dances and floating color parades are staged along the street, which is wonderful!

Che Gong's birthday (the third day of the lunar calendar)

On the third day of every year, Chegong Temple near Shatian Racecourse will be crowded with people and incense will flourish. After the worship, all men and women will turn copper windmills in front of the altar to pray for good luck in the new year. Saino Ho Chung Chegong Temple, built in Guangxu period (AD 1878), is one of the oldest temples in Hong Kong.

It is said that during the Chongzhen period in the late Ming Dynasty, an epidemic suddenly spread all over the New Territories, killing many people, especially Sha Tin. Later, someone looked up the history books and county annals and found that there was a marshal Che in the Song Dynasty, which not only made great contributions to quelling the chaos, but also stopped the epidemic. The villagers in Sha Tin had a statue of Marshal Che made and a Che Gong Temple was set up in Sha Tin. When the temple was built, it was said that the epidemic was not popular and the villagers were grateful, so it was scheduled to pay homage to Chegong Temple every year.