Video: Buns, quick! Chinese kolobok festival
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
While we are preparing for a large-scale celebration of May Day and are slowly getting closer to Victory Day, the Chinese from the island Cheng Chau are looking forward to their national holiday, which will take place on May 10th. They are looking forward - literally, because the holiday will be very edible: the Chinese are going to honor with celebrations, games and dances … the most common round bun.
The Chinese are not fools to eat at all, their cuisine is very spicy, nutritious, exotic, sometimes even inhuman - but, in any case, it is extremely diverse and rich. And yet, there is a certain common denominator for Chinese cuisine in each of the provinces - this is buns … After all, bread is the head of everything! So in early May, the inhabitants of Cheng Chau Island, located in the Hong Kong archipelago, arrange their Bun Day.
Of course, all this action is accompanied by mass celebrations, explosions of firecrackers, dances and flights of dragons - in general, almost like on Chunjie - New Year in the Chinese style, only on a smaller scale. But the main event of the holiday takes place near a unique architectural structure: a kind of triumphal arch made of buns.
Each bun in each of the three towers that make up the arch is decorated with a good hieroglyphic wish. The essence of the main festive competition is that participants must quickly climb some tower and grab a bun quickly - then they will receive universal respect and a little bit of luck. But in the face of increased competition, it is not so easy to hunt for buns. It is not surprising that in 1978 one of the towers collapsed and injured about a hundred people after flour lovers quickly ran into it. After that incident, the tradition ceased for some time - but last year it was revived again, and the towers were already plastic.
By the way, the catering giant McDonald's is trying to interfere in the modern course of the bun holiday: they began to make buns that look like festive ones. Will globalization succeed in winning another victory in Hong Kong? So far, one thing can be said: holiday buns in Cheng Chau proves that a celebration can be made from anything - even from wine, even from chocolate, even from baked goods.
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