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Group members: No. 8,14,16,20,22,32,38 Cheung Chau Bun Festival is a traditional Chinese festival on the island of Cheung Chau in Hong Kong. Being held annually, and with therefore the most public exposure, it is by far the most famous of such Da Jiu festivals, with Jiu being a Taoist sacrificial ceremony. Such events are held by mostly rural communities in Hong Kong, either annually or at a set interval of years ranging all the way up to once every 60 years i.e. the same year in the Chinese astrological calendar . Other places that may share the folk custom include Taiwan, Sichuan, Fujian and Guangdong. One story of the origin of the festival is that in the 18th Century the island of Cheung Chau was devastated by a plague and infiltrated by pirates until local fishermen brought an image of the god Pak Tai to the island. Paraded through the village lanes, the deity drove away evil spirits. Villagers also disguised themselves as different deities and walked around the island to drive away the evil spirits. Bun Scrambling Parade-in-the-air Dragon Dances Lion Dances Burning of paper effigies Bun Scrambling is the main activity of Cheung Chau Bun Festival. Another one is the Parade-in-the-air . When Eighth day in the lunar, three giant 60-feet bamboo towers covered with buns are built in the space in front of the Pak Tai Temple. Historically, young men would race up the tower to get hold of the buns; the higher the bun, the better fortune it was supposed to bring to the holders family. The race was known as Bun-snatching”. However, during a race in 1978 one of the towers collapsed, injuring more than 100 people. In 2005, a single tower climbing event in the adjacent sports ground was revived as a race -- with extra safety precautions including proper mountain-climbing tools as well as tutorials for participants . /video/play?p %E6%90%B6%E5%8C%85%E5%B1%B1ei UTF-8meta rst%3Dhkfr FP-tab-web-tfr2 tab-webvid 0001座机电话号码3 We went to Cheung Chau to have a site visi