🌿✨ Awakening of Insects – Nature Stirs to Life! ✨🐞

Today marks the Awakening of Insects, a time when nature comes alive with rising temperatures and spring energy! 🌱🌧️

In Hong Kong, this day is marked by the unique "beating petty people 🔥" (da siu yan) ritual under Goose Neck Bridge, a tradition that started as a way to drive away pests 🦟 but evolved into a spiritual practice.

This Saturday (Mar 8, 2:00–2:40 PM) at Cork City Library, Peg Chiu, author of The Tiger Under the Flyover, will share the fascinating history of Goose Neck Bridge and its transformation over time.

Children can join in reading the story using Jyutping (Cantonese romanisation) and we will make the paper tigers 🐯 together! See you there!

🌿✨ 驚蟄——萬物復甦！ ✨🐞

今日係驚蟄，大地回春，氣溫回暖，萬物開始甦醒！🌱🌧️

喺香港，呢日有個特別嘅傳統 -- **「打小人 🔥」**，地點就係喺鵝頸橋底。本來呢個習俗係為咗驅趕害蟲 🦟，但後來演變成一種祈求轉運嘅民間儀式。

今個星期六（3月8日，2:00–2:40 PM），作者趙婉慧（Peg Chiu） 會喺高基市圖書館（Cork City Library)分享佢嘅故事書《橋底老虎》，講述香港堅拿道天橋，又稱鵝頸橋嘅歷史變遷。

小朋友可以一齊用粵拼朗讀故事中嘅句子字詞，仲會一齊摺紙老虎 🐯！到時見！

Post-event follow up

So we made an army of paper tigers today at our storytelling in Cork City Library. Roar!

我哋今日喺高基市圖書館嘅故事活動入面整咗一支紙老虎大軍。嗷！