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Festivals

Hong Kong's colourful festivals, spaced throughout the year, provide a series of spectacles unrivalled anywhere in the world. The purposes of the festivals are many and varied-to honour ancestors, bring on the rains, and seek blessings of various kinds. The things they all have in common are excitement, colour and crowds. Each year increasing numbers of tourists join the happy throngs of local residents in their celebrations, as the Hong Kong Tourist Association spreads word of the festivities further afield. The following pages show high-lights from a number of this year's festivals.

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