The three towering “bun mountains” of the Jiao Festival on Cheung Chau Island

The three towering “bun mountains” have become a familiar icon of the Jiao Festival on Cheung Chau Island. The occasion is therefore more popularly known as the “Bun Festival” to the Western world. The traditional way of constructing the towers was to use fir beams as the bottom support, and large bamboo poles for the cone-shaped scaffold, on which strings of buns – symbols of well-being – would be hung.