The Tradition and Meaning of Sek Pun

After villagers of Sheung Shui completed their ancestral worship, food was cooked on the hill and served in basins. People sat around the basins to enjoy the food. This custom is also called “sek shan tou”, which means eating on the hillside. After their ancestral worship, villagers in the New Territories cooked different food on the hill to prepare the basin feast. Wah Kiu Yat Po reported on the sek pun (basin feast) served to the residents of Shui Tsiu San Tsuen in Yuen Long after their ancestral worship rituals.