Macau celebrates the birth of Buddha the founder of Buddhism on the eighth day of the fourth month in the Asian lunar calendar.
In Macau, the key event consists of devotees bathing the statue of Buddha with water.
As well as this the devotees hang lanterns, dance with wooden dragon statues, give alms and provide free food, and even release caged animals for good luck.
The resort-cum-casino city has an estimated population of 680,000, mostly Chinese originally from various provinces, several thousand ethnic Macanese and foreign migrants including Portuguese, Filipinos, and Vietnamese.
About 80 percent of people in Macau follow Buddhism, about 7 percent Christianity and the rest follow various faiths including Judaism and Islam, according to the Pew Research Center.
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