- Tree goes up
- Large public/commercial displays begin mid-to-late November; no strongly documented fixed home “tree-up” date
- Tree comes down
- Public displays typically run to around 1-4 January; homes have no strongly documented fixed date, but gifts are traditionally not opened until Boxing Day (26 December)
- Local superstition
- No distinctive bad-luck belief documented.
Why that date
Christmas Day and Boxing Day remain public holidays, a legacy of British colonial rule retained after the 1997 handover; celebrations are heavily commercial and retail-driven rather than tied to a home religious custom.
What actually happens
A notable local custom is that gifts are traditionally not opened until Boxing Day (26 December) rather than Christmas Day itself, per Wikipedia’s country-by-country Christmas observance summary; the Christmas and Lunar New Year periods together make up the two longest holiday stretches of the Hong Kong year.
Taking it down again
Public displays typically run to around 1-4 January; homes have no strongly documented fixed date, but gifts are traditionally not opened until Boxing Day (26 December). No distinctive bad-luck belief documented.
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