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Irish Born Chinese

Tai Po's past

Created Sunday, 5th February 2006, 02:49 by whykay
(NOTE: This is a migrated article from the old IBC blog)

In my previous entry I mentioned Lam Tsuen’s Da Jiu (Peace) festival to give thanks for the safety of the region that was part of the devastating typhoon decades ago. Tai Po’s Da Jiu festival does not happen yearly, it’s a few decades (not sure how many) between each one, so it is a very big event. Not everyone can go twice is what mom and dad said. Now that’s a long time for a big festival.

I got curious then about the typhoon disaster. I remember my dad mentioning many typhoon disaster, and I am wondering was the one in 1937 was the one he talks about (he was not born then). I found this article though when I searched for more information. But the search results did not harbour anymore results.