Hong Kong LOHAS Solar-Term Culture

Local solar-term custom tour, eat and play without stopping!The book takes the 24 solar terms as the longitudes and local customs as the latitudes to lead you to travel around Hong Kong, look for distinctive folk customs and attractive beautiful scenery and understand how to enjoy the vibrant life with least money.It is an informative and colorful LOHAS life guide that Hong Kong people fondle admiringly.It expatiates on the content, folk customs, diet customs, need-to-know information about health preservation and diet of 24 solar terms and corresponding activities for four seasons.It introduces local festivals and festival culture of Hong Kong and the latest published various intangible cultural heritages in Hong Kong, such as Qingming tea cakes, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Fireworks Grabbing at Po Toi Island Tin Hau Festival, culture of saying Mass for the departed souls in walled villages, Chaozhou gong and drum and almost lost local hand puppet, and four national cultural heritages, namely Cheung Chau Bun Festival, Dragon Boat Parade of Tai O Island, Yu Lan Ghost Festival and the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance at Mid-Autumn Festival.It expounds festivals which are related to solar terms but generally ignored, such as spring sacrifice, autumn sacrifice, set-in of plum rains, ending of plum rains and separation of dragons, interpret paintings of cattle in spring in Almanac, treating winter disease in summer, medicinal vesiculation in dog days and so on.