Cheung Chau Bun Festival Draws Over 10,000 Visitors Amidst Heat
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- Hong Kong's Cheung Chau Bun Festival attracted over 10,000 visitors by Sunday noon.
- The Piu Sik parade featured children dressed as oil moguls and judges, with themes like rising oil prices and bid-rigging.
- Visitors also enjoyed local treats to cope with the 30°C heat.
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The Cheung Chau Bun Festival, also known as Da Jiu Festival, is an annual event in Hong Kong featuring a parade and bun scrambling competition. This year's parade included themes reflecting current events.
Hong Kong’s annual Cheung Chau Bun Festival drew more than 10,000 visitors by noon on Sunday, including tourists who had travelled specially to witness the signature parade featuring “floating” children dressed as Middle Eastern oil moguls and judges.
Visitors to the outlying island on Sunday splurged on frozen pineapples, watermelon juice and frozen mango mochi to beat the heat as the mercury hit 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit).
The event, also known as Da Jiu Festival, includes the Piu Sik parade, where children dressed as deities are carried through the streets on steel frames, and the bun scrambling competition, which has become one of Hong Kong’s best-known traditional events.
This year’s Piu Sik featured themes including rising oil prices, the HK$2 (25 US cents) transport subsidy and bid-rigging.
Two children dressed as judges from the TVB court drama Themis were also a highlight of the parade.
Five-and-a-half-year-old Katelynn Wong was among the children selected to participate in this year’s parade.
Holding a petrol gun and dressed in denim overalls with a Shell logo, Wong is part of the float themed around rising oil prices.
