Meet the Masters Series – 2025
Blooming ICH in Chinese New Year
On 4 December 2024, the "Spring Festival, social practices of the Chinese people in celebration of traditional new year" was inscribed onto the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, highlighting its profound historical and cultural significance.
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is one of the most significant festivals in Hong Kong. To celebrate this traditional festival, we invite you this January to Sam Tung UK Museum to experience the charm of ICH through the practice of traditional customs associated with the festival.
Special Programmes for the Chinese New Year in January 2025
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Programme Name |
Date |
Time |
Venue |
Instructor |
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Fragrance of "Shek Lau Tsai": New Year Festivities Demonstration |
11 January 2025 (Saturday) |
2:00 – 3:30 pm | 4:00 – 5:30 pm |
Hong Kong Intangible Cultural Heritage Centre (located at Sam Tung Uk Museum) |
Mrs Tang Leung Siu-ha (Instructor of traditional snacks in the villages in the New Territories) |
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Celebrating the Chinese New Year with Huichun |
18 January 2025 (Saturday) |
2:00 - 3:00 pm | 3:30 – 4:30 pm |
Mr Eddie Leung (Assistant Curator II, Intangible Cultural Heritage Office) |
From Hair to Brush — Demonstration of Chinese Brush Making Technique
From removing grease from the hair to straightening, aligning the tip, rolling the hair into the brush tip, trimming excess hair at the tip and forming the final brush, brush making involves delicate craftsmanship. A brush made of an infant's hair is a kind of brush carrying a keepsake significance.
Chinese Brush Making Technique is one of the new items inscribed into the Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory of Hong Kong in 2024. In April, the programme of the "Meet the Masters" series will introduce the item through demonstrations, allowing the public to learn more about the Chinese Brush Making Technique.
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Date |
27 April 2025 (Sunday) |
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Time |
2:00 – 3:30 pm | 4:00 – 5:30 pm |
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Venue |
Orientation Room 2, Hong Kong Intangible Cultural Heritage Centre (located at Sam Tung Uk Museum) |
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Speaker |
Mr Cheung Hung-ngai (Chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese Writing Brush Pen Museum Association) |
To enhance the public's understanding of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), the ICH Office has invited ICH practitioners and experts to talk about different ICH items, and chat with the participants. The programmes will be conducted mainly in Cantonese and free of charge.
The programme is one of the activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series. The LCSD has long been promoting Chinese history and culture through organising an array of programmes and activities to enable the public to learn more about broad and profound Chinese culture. For more information, please visit https://www.ccpo.gov.hk/en/.