One of Hong Kong's largest celebrations, Chinese New Year, brightens the city with colorful decorations and a variety of festive activities. In order to welcome fortune and prosperity, it is marked by an array of symbolic celebrations. The festivities last for 15 days and mark the beginning of the lunar calendar.

As the clock strikes midnight, Victoria Harbour is transformed into a massive canvas with vibrant fireworks and stunning illumination displays as joyful celebrants from all around Hong Kong ring in the new year. The countdown begins 60 seconds before midnight, with the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre's facade serving as the countdown's focal point.

Every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the Dragon Boat Festival is held. This tradition dates back to the Lingnan region of China, where the water that flowed through the dragon boat oars was thought to bring good fortune. However, the races as we know them had their start some 40 years ago in Hong Kong. In 1976, Hong Kong hosted the first-ever international dragon boat race, featuring nine local teams against a Japanese squad. 

Celebrated on the full moon day, which falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, Mid-Autumn is also known as the Mooncake Festival or Moon Festival. Chinese people will celebrate their abundant crop harvest and express gratitude to the moon. It's a time to look up at the moon and offer prayers for good fortune. More significantly, families join together to rejoice being together after being apart during Mid-Autumn.

Legend has it that the event started when an epidemic killed hundreds of people on the island. The illness wasn't beaten until the islanders brought the god Pak Tai to Cheung Chau, who exorcised the evil spirits and the sickness. Ever since, on the Buddha's birthday, this Pak Tai festival has been held. The week-long celebrations feature a variety of events, including prayers and offerings to the god, floats, parades, lion dances, and a "bun scrambling" competition that takes place at midnight on the final day.