The document highlights Hong Kong's rich cultural heritage and the diverse traditions that attract visitors, including Hakka Chinese, Cantonese opera, and various traditional festivals. It discusses significant aspects of Chinese culture such as music, martial arts, and medicine, as well as details about local tours available for exploring these cultural experiences. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of practices like tai chi and feng shui in the region's historical and contemporary life.

2. While constantly looking to the future and honouring its past,
Hong Kong breathes under the duality of a modern city
enhanced by the richness of an ancient society. Visitors from
throughout the world visit Hong Kong to experience age-old
rituals and time-tested wisdom of the East.

3. Hakka Chinese
One of the major groups of varieties of
Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka
people throughout southern China,
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and
throughout the diaspora areas of East
Asia, Southeast Asia, and in overseas
Chinese communities around the world.

4. Cantonese
Cantonese is a variety of Chinese
originating from the city of Guangzhou
(also known as Canton) and its
surrounding area in South-eastern
China. It is the traditional prestige
variety of the Yue Chinese dialect
group, which has about 68 million
native speakers.

5. Four-character idiomatic expressions
Chengyu are a type of traditional
Chinese idiomatic expression, most of
which consist of four characters.
Chengyu were widely used in Classical
Chinese and are still common in
vernacular Chinese writing and in the
spoken language today.

6. Lion dance is a form of
traditional dance in Chinese
culture and other Asian
countries in which performers
mimic a lion's movements in a
lion costume to bring good luck
and fortune.
Lion dance

7. Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance
It takes about 300 performers
and over 24,000 incense sticks
per night to put on a three-day
performance with a 67-metre
dragon, which consists of 32
sections and whose head alone
weighs 70 kg.

8. Cantonese opera (Chinese: 粵劇) is one
of the major categories in Chinese
opera, originating in southern China's
Guangdong Province. It is popular in
Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong,
Macau and among Chinese
communities in Southeast Asia. Like all
versions of Chinese opera, it is a
traditional Chinese art form, involving
music, singing, martial arts, acrobatics,
and acting.
Cantonese Opera

9. Performs in four main Chinese
traditional puppet types: string,
hand, rod and shadow puppets,
and collected nearly a thousand
puppets.
Dedicated to the preservation and
development of puppetry arts,
training of local artists, creating
puppet performances with Hong
Kong characteristics.
Puppetry

10. Nanguan is a style of Chinese
classical music originating in the
southern Chinese province of
Fujian, and is also now highly
popular in Taiwan, particularly
Lukang on west coast, as well as
among Overseas Chinese in
Southeast Asia.
Fujian Nanyin

11. Hakka hill songs are rural songs
sung in the Hakka language by
the Hakka people. They are
probably one of the better
known elements that reflect
Hakka culture, regarded by
many as the 'pearl of Hakka
Literature'.
Hakka Hill Song

12. Che Kung was originally a military
commander of Southern Song Dynasty
(1127–1279), who, according to lore, had
supreme power to suppress rebellion and
was renowned for his loyalty to the
Emperor. He was also famous for his
power to suppress plagues and his skill in
medicine. He is now considered a god of
protection.
Che Kung

13. Tin Kung Yuk Wong Tai Tai
Yuk Wong Tai Tai or the Jade Emperor
is in-charge of the Heaven. He is the
king of all immortals and has the
power to order them.

14. “Sam Shan” refers to 3 famous
mountains of Chaozhou in
Guangdong , namely Du Shan ,
Ming Shan and Jin Shan.
Sam Shan Kwok Wong Festival

15. Kam Fa Festival
Each year on April 17th of the Lunar
Year when Kam Fa Festival is
celebrated, Master Kwan’s son Mr.
Kwan Hon Chuen, along with Master
Luk Chong Mao (Master Luk Chi Fu’s
son) and Master Cheung Kwok Wah
(Master Kwan Tak Hing’s disciple)
and friends, would bring more than
10 dancing lions to Peng Chau.

16. Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival is a
traditional holiday originating in
China, occurring near the summer
solstice. The festival now occurs
on the 5th day of the 5th month
of the traditional Chinese
calendar, which is the source of
the festival's alternative name,
the Double Fifth Festival.

17. Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is
a branch of traditional medicine
based on more than 2,500 years of
Chinese medical practice that
includes various forms of herbal
medicine, acupuncture, massage (tui
na), exercise (qigong), and dietary
therapy, but recently also influenced
by modern Western medicine.

18. Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees
Lam Tsuen, in Tai Po, was already a
residential area 700 years ago
during the Southern Song dynasty
(1127–1279). Today, it still bustles
with people and visitors thanks to
its two ‘wishing trees’ and Tin Hau
Temple.

19. Tai Chi
Taiji(tai chi), short for Tai ji quan, or T'ai chi ch'üan, is an internal Chinese martial art
practiced for both its defense training, its health benefits and meditation. The term
taiji refers to a philosophy of the forces of yin and yang, related to the moves.

20. Feng Shui
Literally meaning ’wind
and water’, feng shui is the
ancient Chinese practice
of positioning objects and
buildings in harmony with
nature to bring about
good fortune.

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