Event Ticket Price:
Free
11 September 2011 (All day) - 13 September 2011 (All day)
Newly added to China's third national intangible cultural heritage list, the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance is an awesome spectacle of fire, smoke and serpentine fury.
The 67-meter-long dragon, studded with thousands of burning joss sticks, parades through the backstreets of Tai Hang in Causeway Bay.
The three day event has its origins in 1880. Then a small Hakka community, Tai Hang was wracked by a plague that took the lives of many villagers. Appearing in a dream, Buddha instructed the unfortunate people to light firecrackers and perform a dragon dance for three days and nights. It is said that the sulphur from the firecrackers dispelled the plague.
And so the ritual has been repeated annually ever since.
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