Hong Kong has many traditional festivals, the nearest festival is Mid-Autumn Festival.
Every autumn, Hong Kong celebrates the Mid-Autumn festival paying homage to the harvest moon. It's filled with excitement and colour as families and friends gather to eat moon cakes and with the biggest and brightest moon of the year. This heart-warming celebration is a wonderful blend of ancient Chinese fable, beautifully crafted lanterns, scrumptious food and fun for everyone. Drop by the various lantern carnivals around town to discover fascinating aspects of Chinese culture.
To allow more visitors and local residents to appreciate the fire dragon dance, and to synergise with the Lantern Wonderland and other Mid-Autumn celebratory activities. The following activities will held on this year Mid-Autumn Festival:
1) Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dancing Parade
No trip to Hong Kong would be complete without a dragon experience and now you can go to a dragon on fire! It is now a part of China's intangible culture heritage. The event takes three days, 300 performers, 72,000 incense sticks and a 67-metre long dragon studded with thousands of burning joss sticks. At night, all this produces an incredible spectacle of fire, smoke and dynamic fury as the dragon wends and dances throgh the backstreets of Tai Hang.
The three day event commemorates a series of mishaps that befell Tai Hang in 1880 culminating in a plague breaking out in the villages. Appearing in the dream of a village elder, Buddha instructed the villagers to light firecrackers and perform a fire dragon dance for three days and nights during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Sulphur from the firecr4ackers ddispelled the plague and the ritual has been repeated annually ever since.
Date and Venue
Fire Dragon Dance in Tai Hang
Date & Time: 11 to 13 September 2011, Start at 19:30
Directions: Tin Hau Station MTR Exit A1, cross King's Road and turn right.
Fire Dragon Dance in Victoria Park
Date & Time: 12 September 2011, From 22:15 to 23:15
Directions: MTR Causeway Bay Station Exit E, then walk along Great George Street to the park / MTR Tin Hau Station Exit A2, turn left at exit.
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| 2) Lee Kum Kee Lantern Wonderland |
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3) Lantern Carnivals |
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4) Lantern Exhibitions   |
