Kau Sai’s Hung Shing Festival is held on the twelfth and thirteenth days of the second lunar month. A local festival committee maintains the annual observance. Its date follows a lunar calendar, so the corresponding Western-calendar day changes from year to year.
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Kau Sai’s Hung Shing Festival and Jiao
At Kau Sai, a Jiao on the day before the Hung Shing Festival leads into two days of ritual, Cantonese opera and community gatherings.
In this district · Sai Kung ↗A festival on the lunar calendar
A Jiao before the festival
The day before the festival, a Jiao includes opening the altar, offering meals to deities, enshrining the Ghost Master, feeding water ghosts, striding through gates and making offerings to wandering ghosts. These rites form a sequence leading into the main celebration, rather than a single ceremony.
Opera and community
On the festival days, a hired troupe performs Cantonese opera to thank the deities. Flower-canon associations also gather on the main day. At Kau Sai, ritual, performance and organized community participation meet in an event tied to this island community and its annual calendar.