Festival & Ritual

Hong Kong’s Mid-Autumn week gathers family mooncake ritual, Victoria Park lanterns and the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance under the fifteenth night of the eighth lunar month.

Kyoto’s Festival of the Ages walks the city’s ceremonial wardrobe from the Imperial Palace to Heian Jingu, moving backward from the Meiji Restoration toward the founding of Heian-kyo.

Hong Kong’s Lunar New Year moves from reunion tables and flower buying into temple observance, public spectacle and a fifteen-day festive sequence.

Bangkok’s Thai New Year moves between temple merit-making, family and elder rituals, and exuberant public water celebrations from 13 to 15 April.

Kyoto’s month-long festival centres shrine ritual, neighborhood stewardship and two processions of monumental, textile-draped floats.