Take a Lucky Flight to Lam Tsuen and Wish for Good Fortune / 🇨🇳 China

Let your wish travel into a tree full of other people's hopes. In Lam Tsuen, Hong Kong, wishing placards are part of a much-loved local tradition. People write a wish and send it upwards, or place it on a designated rack, turning an inward hope into something visible. The belief that a higher wish is especially auspicious gives the scene its playful lift.

This Lucky Flight takes you to the Wishing Square and its village surroundings. The centre of the experience is one clear wish: something you would be delighted to welcome into the year ahead. The red placards make an ordinary thought feel ready to take flight.

Open the destination footage or the official visitor guide and look for the Wishing Square. Notice the red placards against the trees and the gathering places around them. Settle into the view and choose one wish you want to hold in mind during your visit.

At the actual site, visitors use the designated wishing racks or the replica wishing tree for the custom. Follow the path of a placard with your eyes and picture your wish joining those already gathered there. Give your attention to the wishing area prepared for visitors and to the village that keeps this tradition alive.

Stay with the scene for a quiet moment. Let the wish become a simple sentence you can remember, then finish your three-minute visit by adding an arrival stamp to the passport on this device. If you later visit in person, the Wishing Square gives that same wish a real place to return to.

Lam Tsuen's wishing custom grew within a village landscape, near the Tin Hau Temple in Fong Ma Po. The trees became a gathering point for local hopes, especially at Lunar New Year, when a fresh beginning invites people to think about what they want to welcome.

The familiar image is a wish attached to an orange and sent into the branches. Today the custom also uses dedicated racks and a replica tree, allowing visitors to enjoy the gesture while caring for the original banyans. That change adds something touching to the tradition: preserving the place has become part of keeping the wishes alive. The surrounding villages and temple give the colourful celebration a deeper setting than a single photo of a tree can show.