Opening Programme
Indigenous
Hong Kong
——An Exhibition on our Intangible Cultural Traditions
| Date |
10/17(Fri)4pm –7pm 10/18–11/210am –7pm |
| Location | 2C & D, Huashan 1914 Creative Park |
| Ticket | Free Admission |
Traditions in a Modern Metropolis • Cultural Heritage in
Our Daily Lives
Cantonese Opera • Jiao Festival of Cheung Chau • Tai O Dragon Boat Water Parade • Yu Lan Ghost Festival of the Hong Kong Chiu Chow Community • Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance • Hakka Unicorn Dance • Wong Tai Sin Belief and Customs • Hong Kong Fung Ying Seen Koon Quanzhen Ritual Music • Herbal Tea • Hong Kong Style Milk Tea • Papercrafting • Qin Making Technique • Bamboo Shed Theatre Building Technique
The fantastic variety of our cultural traditions reflects Hong Kong as a metropolis with a unique breath of life.
Hong Kong may be known for its fast-paced development and its urban cityscape, but at its heart lies many age-old customs, festivities, celebrations, folk religions, as well as traditional forms of arts and handicrafts. Thanks to the efforts of different local groups, including the Hakka, Chiu Chow, Hoi Luk Fung, and the fishermen community, many of these traditions have been preserved and passed on from one generation to the next over the past 100 years or so. Not only are they part of the shared history and memory of Hong Kong people, but they also continue to play a key role in our modern-day lives and culture.
Despite its relatively small geographical size, Hong Kong boasts an amazingly wide range of intangible cultural heritage(ICH). This exhibition presents 13 items from our first ICH inventory list. Together, they reflect how different groups and communities have contributed to the development and preservation of the city’s traditional culture. We look forward to presenting Hong Kong’s rich and varied cultural heritage to audiences in Taiwan.
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Hakka Unicorn Dance
The Chinese unicorn (or qilin) is one of the four auspicious animals in Chinese mythology. It is especially important to Hakka culture, where unicorn dances are often performed on major celebratory occasions (e.g. Chinese New Year, weddings, birthdays, house warming) to ward off evil and to bring in good luck. The performance will demonstrate the routines, rituals and taboos of the unicorn dance for different occasions.
| Performed by | Hong Kong Sai Kung Hang Hau District Traditional Hakka Unicorn Association |
| Date | 10/18 (Sat) 2:30–4:00pm |
| Location | 2C & D, Huashan 1914 Creative Park |
| Ticket | Free Admission |
Hakka Unicorn Papercrafting Demonstration
How does the paper craftsman create such artful models of the Hakka unicorn using simple materials like paper and bamboo? What symbolism is there with its unique features – the trigram on its forehead, the bull-like ears, and the coin and peony patterns on its cheeks? To find out, join our master paper craftsman from Hong Kong in his live demonstration.
| Demonstrator | Master Kenneth Mo Cheuk-kei |
| Date | 10/18 (Sat) 4:00–5:00pm |
| Location | 2C & D, Huashan 1914 Creative Park |
| Ticket | Free Admission |
Hong Kong Style Milk Tea:
Making and Tasting Sessions
Rich, velvety and bursting with flavour, Hong Kong style milk tea is also known as ‘silk stocking milk tea’. Yet what has silk stockings got to do with this hugely popular beverage? Ms Mok Pui-ling, Hong Kong’s first ever female winner of the International Kamcha Competition, will be giving a hands-on demonstration and sharing her secrets of how to achieve the perfect proportion, brew and shake. Come have a cuppa.
| Demonstrator | Ms Mok Pui-ling |
| Supporting Organization | The Association of Coffee and Tea of Hong Kong |
| Tasting | 10/18 (Sat) 3:00–5:00pm |
| Demonstration and Tasting | 10/19 (Sun) 10:00am–12:00nn |
| Location | 2C & D, Huashan 1914 Creative Park |
| Ticket | Free Admission |
Talks on Cantonese Opera, Operatic Excerpts Performance and Dress-up Demonstration
Cantonese Opera is the mainstream opera genre in Guangdong Province, and also an important part of the traditional performing arts form of Hong Kong. We have invited two famous stars of the local Cantonese Opera scene, Lee Lung and Sun Kim Long, to talk about this arts form, as well as to demonstrate the unique ‘Cantonese’ style of singing through performances of two short opera excerpts. Audiences will have the opportunity to dress up as the male and female leads in Cantonese Opera, complete with full stage make-up and costumes.
| Organised and performed | Lung Fei Cantonese Opera Troupe |
| Date | 10/19 (Sun) 2:30–4:00pm |
| Location | 2C & D, Huashan 1914 Creative Park |
| Ticket | Free Admission |
Forum on Hong Kong——Taiwan Intangible
Cultural Heritage
UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage encourages international co-operation so as to enhance awareness, respect, protection, promotion and exhibition of intangible cultural heritage. Six experts and academics from Hong Kong and Taiwan will exchange their insights and experiences on the topic of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, including aspects such as protection, education, promotion, as well as the latest developments in the field.
| Speakers from Taiwan | Wang Sung-shan (Professor and Director, Graduate Institute of History and Historical Relics, and Centre for Asia-Pacific Museology and Culture Studies) Chang Hsun (Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica) Wu Rung-shun (Professor and Dean, School of Music, Taipei National University of the Arts) |
| Speakers from Hong Kong | Chau Hing-wah (Curator, Hong Kong Heritage Museum) Liu Tik-sang (Director of the South China Research Center and Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Chu Kim-hung (Vice-Principal of the Buddhist Wai Yan Memorial College) |
| Date | 10/25 (Sat) 2:00–5:00pm |
| Location | 2C & D, Huashan 1914 Creative Park |
| Ticket | Free Admission |
Hong Kong Fung Ying Sin Koon Quanzhen Ritual Music Demonstration & Performance
Qingwei Lidou Ke, or ‘Offerings to the Dipper’, is a ritual for worshipping and offering praise to the Mother Dipper and the Big Dipper as prayers for blessing and longevity. The scripture chanters of Fung Ying Seen Koon will be performing this popular ritual and praying for our well-being through chanting and playing traditional musical instruments such as the muyu (wood block), qing (stone chime) and dizi (flute).
| Performed by | Fung Ying Seen Koon |
| Date | 10/26 (Sun) 2:30–4:30pm |
| Location | 2C & D, Huashan 1914 Creative Park |
| Ticket | Free Admission |
Traditional Lantern Crafting Demonstration
Lanterns play a prominent role in the festival in the first lunar month and the Mid-Autumn Festival. The crafting of a traditional lantern is a complex process, involving the use of bamboo splits and wire to form the frame, which is then mounted with silk and finally decorated using pompoms and tassels. Our master craftsman will be giving a demonstration of this process, and participants will also be invited to try one’s hand at adding the final decorative touches to the lantern.
| Demonstrator | Master Ringo Leung Chi-shing |
| Date | 11/2 (Sun) 2:30–4:30pm |
| Location | 2C & D, Huashan 1914 Creative Park |
| Ticket | Free Admission |
Yu Lan Ghost Festival of the Hong Kong Chiu Chow Community
Qin Making Technique
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Huashan 1914 Creative Park No. 1, Section 1, Bade Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei
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Hong Kong Heritage Museum
| Phone | (886) 2 2720 0858 / (852) 2180 8180 |
| Website | hk.heritage.museum |