The year of Rabbit: Usher in a brand new year of good fortune this Lunar New Year

The Lunar New Year is a major event in Hong Kong, with lavish feasts and sparkling illuminations. Locals all around the city celebrate the spring festival by exchanging blessings and wishes to invoke prosperity and unity for the upcoming year. This Lunar New Year marks the beginning of the Year of the Rabbit, a crucial zodiac sign to understand health, wealth, and love.

Now that Hong Kong is ready to welcome international visitors again, it’s the perfect occasion to celebrate Chinese New Year in true Hong Kong style. After all, nowhere blends time-honoured CNY traditions with modern energy quite like this buzzing metropolis.
In honour of the Year of the Rabbit, here are five of Hong Kong’s most fortuitous experiences to fill your year with good luck, health, and prosperity:

A prosperous Lunar New Year Fair by Central Market

This CNY Central Market has 450 hanging lanterns, and the ground-floor Oasis has a five-meter-tall traditional flower board decked out in LED lights, as well as vintage green metal stalls where visitors can shop for time-honored local brands and social enterprises.There will also be a street market selling hundreds of vintage and Lunar New Year products, as well as a flower market offering fresh festive plants like golden fruits, narcissus, lucky bamboos, dragon claw bamboos, lilies, winter jasmines, and many more. Visit the market and indulge yourself in a lively festive vibe!
Take Instagrammable Photos with the ‘Lucky Rabbit’

Brought to you by the Hong Kong Tourism Board, a series of dazzling CNY checkpoints have transformed the harborfront. For starters, a giant Lucky Rabbit is making its debut on the roof of the Central Pier. Visitors will also discover more "hoppin'" displays – each with mesmerising themes, lights, music, and interactive elements – at Admiralty’s Tamar Park, the Wan Chai Temporary Promenade, and Tsim Sha Tsui’s Hong Kong Cultural Centre.

Lam Tsuen Well-Wishing Festival

The power of the Lam Tsuen Wishing Tree is legendary. A visit to this wishing tree in Tai Po, where you can write your wishes on a sign and attach it to an auspicious mandarin, is one of the honoured customs associated with Chinese New Year in Hong Kong. It is said that if you throw the placard onto the tree from a high point without letting it fall back, your desires will come true. Visit the wishing well and get your wish fulfilled!

Experience Unique Hong Kong CNY Traditions

The Year of the Rabbit marks the return of many authentic Hong Kong CNY customs for visitors to enjoy! Among the must-try experiences, head to the Chinese New Year flower markets for festive shopping and take in the good fortune as blooms signify wealth in Chinese culture.

Besides, stock up on luck at the CNY Raceday in Sha Tin, where epic horse races, lion dance performances, and holiday décor await. The energising activity can bring you a prosperous start to the year!

Give Creative Gifts of Good Fortune

During Chinese New Year, Hong Kong residents bring gifts to family gatherings in order to spread goodwill and fortune among loved ones. Putting a spin on tradition, Dang Wen Li by Dominique Ansel has crafted mochi buns in the shape of mandarins—a symbol of good fortune—alongside a gift box brimming with sweet delicacies that features a centrepiece decoration of a cute rabbit. On the other hand, The Cakery is whipping up adorable rabbit-themed fondant cookies that are perfect for CNY.