Bun Festival in China celebrated to scare away evil spirits

The Bun Festival which started as custom for angling groups to petition God for wellbeing turned into a grandstand of customary Chinese culture. Cheung Chau's Bun Festival, which draws a large number of local people and vacationers alike is organized to check the Eighth day of the Fourth Month, in the Chinese schedule which corresponds with the neighborhood festivity of Buddha's Birthday.

Villagers convey a statue of a Chinese god amid a parade on the peripheral Cheung Chau island in Hong Kong to commend the Bun Festival.

One story of the starting point of the celebration is that in the eighteenth century the island of Cheung Chau was crushed by a torment and penetrated by privateers until nearby anglers brought a picture of the god Pak Tai to the island. Paraded through the town paths, the divinity headed out malice spirits. Villagers likewise masked themselves as various divinities and strolled around the island to head out the insidious spirits.

At the Bun Festival, the Taoist God of the Sea, is adored and fiendish spirits are frightened off by noisy gongs and drums amid the parade. The festival incorporates bun scrambling, parades, musical drama exhibitions, and kids wearing beautiful outfits.

A man stamps the sign including the Chinese character "Peace" on buns available to be purchased.

Retailers offer the buns with the sign highlighting the Chinese character "Peace" on the peripheral Cheung Chau island.

Villagers convey a bun tower amid a parade on the remote Cheung Chau island in Hong Kong to commend the Bun Festival.

Villagers remain before the King of phantoms on the remote Cheung Chau island in Hong Kong to commend the Bun Festival Tuesday, May 22, 2018. A large number of nearby inhabitants and vacationers rushed to a remote island in Hong Kong to commend a neighborhood bun celebration on Tuesday in spite of the chronicle breaking heat. The celebration includes a parade with kids dressed as divinities skimmed on posts. Later on Tuesday, competitors will participate in bun-scrambling rivalry. They will race up a 14-meter bamboo tower to grab however many plastics buns as could be expected under the circumstances. Buns that are higher up are worth more focuses.

Members move up the bun tower amid the bun grabbing rivalry.

Members move up the bun tower amid the bun grabbing rivalry on the remote Cheung Chau island in Hong Kong. The highlight of the celebration is at Pak Tai Temple where the "Bun Mountains" or "Bun Towers" stand. These are three goliath 60-feet bamboo towers secured with buns. It is these bun-secured towers that give the celebration its name.