Chung Yeung Festival in Hong Kong

Do you know that people are supposed to hide from danger on the Chung Yeung Festival
(重陽節)?
It’s on the 9th day on the 9th lunar month, and it is drawing close!
Hurry! Start hiding! I will tell you the story on the way!

During the Han Dynasty (around AD 25), there was a man called Huai Jing, who lost his parents because of a sudden plague. He started training himself, and later learnt that the plague was actually caused by a monster, which would come back on the 9th day on the 9th lunar month. He then told the people form his homeland to climb the mountain and stay away from the danger, while he went to slay that monster. In the end, monster’s down, people’s happy, celebration… bla bla bla.
That’s how the festival comes from, or at least that’s how the story was told.

So, nowadays, we celebrate (or commemorate? It’s a weird festival) by going uphill and attending our ancestors’ graves by offering food and incense sticks, though there are different traditions in different places. Some people will also commemorate those who fell during the liberation of Hong Kong in the Second World War. We have to be grateful, after all.

You done hiding? Good.
Here, drink some chrysanthemum liquor, and keep this cornus. According to the legend, they can also protect you.
What? Me? No, I don’t like liquor; I will just go buy some packaged chrysanthemum tea…
How long should you hide? You…um…just stay here for the time being, I will come back for you once it’s over.
YOU HAVE TO TRUST ME. I am some random guy on the internet!