[Hong Kong] Recently, the yearly traditional event “Bun Festival” was held on the Hong Kong outlying island of Cheung Chau. The event was a four-day ritual expressing gratitude to the deities. This year, about 40,000 people joined the festival. The program began with a ceremony of welcoming the deities, after which a three-day vegetarian observance period was declared on the whole island. In these three days, not only all households must observe the vegetarian diet, all the restaurants on the island also sell only vegetarian food. Even the famous McDonald’s fast food restaurant respected the local custom and unprecedentedly stopped selling any food with animal ingredients. Instead, they especially introduced the vegetarian hamburgers, which were well received by many people.

A video team of the Supreme Master Television formed by the Hong Kong Center traveled to Cheung Chau by ferry one day in advance to get the preparation work ready. Another group of fellow initiates, after meditating diligently overnight at the Center, set off early next morning to Cheung Chau, carrying bilingual (Chinese and English) vegetarian recipes with Supreme Master Television message, and distributed them to the tourists near the ferry pier. Ten thousand leaflets went into the hands of the tourists in less than four hours. Almost every tourist on the island was holding a leaflet and reading it carefully.

Since it was a vegetarian observance period on the island, the vegetarian recipes that we had especially designed were warmly welcomed by all; many of them kept the recipes. We hope that our endeavor would encourage more people to become vegetarians.

* For the origin and details of activities of the Cheung Chau “Bun Festival,” please refer to the following Web sites: 1.http://www.discoverhongkong.com/taiwan/heritage/festivals/he_fest_cheu.jhtml (Chinese) 2.http://qcrc.qef.org.hk/webpage/19984452-15/documents/World_Religion/Ng%20Wai%20Shun/Tai_Ping_Festival/newpage22.htm (Chinese) 3.http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/heritage/festivals/he_fest_cheu.jhtml (English)

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