{"id":17522,"date":"2020-01-03T23:40:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T23:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/hk-festival-hung-shing-festival\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T23:40:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T23:40:56","slug":"hk-festival-hung-shing-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/hk-festival-hung-shing-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"HK Festival: Hung Shing Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>  \t<strong>The Hung Shing Festival<\/strong>\uff08\u6d2a\u5723\u8282H&oacute;ng Sh&egrave;ng Ji&eacute;\uff09 falls on the 13th day of the second lunar month.<\/p>\n<p>  \tLike many of the gods worshipped and celebrated in Hong Kong, <strong>Hung Shing<\/strong>\uff08\u6d2a\u5723H&oacute;ng Sh&egrave;ng\uff09 was originally a historical figure who was later deified. The man behind the immortal was <strong>Hung Hei<\/strong>\uff08\u6d2a\u7199H&oacute;ng X\u012b\uff09, who served as Governor of <strong>Panyu<\/strong>\uff08\u756a\u79baP\u0101ny&uacute;\uff09 in Guangdong province during the Tang dynasty(618 &#8211; 907).<\/p>\n<p>  \tHung was a respected astronomer and geographer who helped forecast the weather for fishermen and merchants. Always seeking order in a capricious world, Chinese people have worshipped him ever since.<\/p>\n<p>  \tToday in Hong Kong, the Hung Shing Festival is marked mostly by fishermen who feel indebted to his name, and celebrations get particularly jovial at the 800-year-old village of <strong>Ho Sheung Heung<\/strong>\uff08\u6cb3\u4e0a\u4e61H&eacute;sh&agrave;ng xi\u0101ng\uff09 in the New Territories.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2222166378\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hung Shing Festival\uff08\u6d2a\u5723\u8282H&oacute;ng Sh&egrave;ng Ji&eacute;\uff09 falls on the 13th day of the second lunar month.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2875],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-customs"],"views":201,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}