page_title: Lam Tsuen wishing trees
section_title: Accident
hierarchical_section_title: Lam Tsuen wishing trees / Accident
caption_attribution_description: 中文（香港）‎: 2010年25呎塑膠許願樹
context_page_description: The Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees are a popular shrine in Hong Kong located near the Tin Hau Temple in Fong Ma Po Village, Lam Tsuen. The temple was built around 1768 or 1771, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor in the Qing dynasty.
  The two banyan trees are frequented by tourists and locals during the Lunar New Year. Previously, they burnt joss sticks, wrote their wishes on joss paper tied to an orange, then threw them up to hang in these trees. It was believed that if the paper successfully hung onto one of the tree branches, these wishes would come true.
  This practice was discouraged by the authorities after 12 February 2005, when one of the branches gave way and injured two people. Instead, wooden racks are set up in place for joss papers to be hung while a period of conservation is imposed to help these trees recover and flourish.
  The Hong Kong Morris, a morris dancing team based in Hong Kong, dances at the Wishing Tree on 1 May each year to celebrate the arrival of summer.
context_section_description: On Feb 12, 2005, the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, one of the branches was broken due to large amount of oranges and paper offerings were thrown onto the banyan tree. The accident has injured a man aged 62 and a four-year-old boy. Tree experts soon examined the structure and the condition of the wishing tree, concluding that all unhealthy branches would be removed, and wounds on the tree had been treated as to avoid infection. As a result, the throwing of “Bao Die” was quickly prohibited by the government after the incident, meanwhile reinforcing the wishing tradition by letting people hang the offerings on a wooden frame placed next to the original banyan tree. Due to the lack of attractiveness of the attraction, A new plastic tree from Guangzhou was purchased in late 2009, plastic mandarin oranges are now only allowed to be tied to the branches. The tradition was able to continue since then.
caption: The new plastic artificial tree
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