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Chung Yueng Festival Tse-Kin (Pantium) Wong from Hong Kong Photo: Velvet Android The family thought that going to a high place saved their lives. Because people wanted to avoid getting killed, we have Chung Yueng Festival today. Nowadays, on this festival, people usually go hiking; they go to a high place such as a hill. In Hong Kong there is a holiday called the Chung Yueng Festival. It is celebrated on September 9th of the Lunar calendar. 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 their 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. Nowadays, on this festival, people usually go hiking; they go to a high place such as a hill. However, people celebrate the same way on Ching Ming Festival. On that festival, they worship their ancestors in the cemetery, so we have two days a year to worship our ancestors.  Return to: Holidays and Celebrations of the World | Home Page TOPICS Online Magazine ©1997-2009 Sandy and Thomas Peters - topics.mag@gmail.com