Pack your Chinese New Year with excitement by spending a day among the rides, shows and attractions of Ocean Park.

Chinese Lunar New Year is the most important of all the Chinese festivals and is the most frenetic happening in the country. It occurs on the 1st day of the 1st moon (January/February) with celebrations lasting three days. Firework displays, lion (or dragon) dances, parades and much more fill the streets with their gaiety and colour. This is also the time to shop for bargains as many shops hold sales with items being cut by 50% or more at times. One of the main horse racing events falls over Chinese New Year as well and this sport is certainly popular with locals and tourists alike. Many shops close for three days over the Chinese New Year.

Che Kung occurs on the second day of Chinese New Year. Che Kung was a Sung Dynasty general who is believed to have saved the inhabitants of Sha Tin Valley from the plague centuries ago and become an immortal and was elevated to a Taoist deity. Today gamblers worship him, as a ‘god’ and crowds now flock to his main temple, near the Hong Kong Jockey Club's Sha Tin Racecourse to wish him happy birthday.