Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance 2006

Event: Fire Dragon Dance at Tai Hang (大坑舞火龍)
Date: 05 Oct., 2006
Place: Tai Hang (大坑), Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Equipment: Canon 30D, 17-40mm 4.0L


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Quoted from Discover Hong kong website:

"Coinciding with Mid-Autumn Festival is the unique Fire Dragon Dance - a spectacular ritual guaranteed to be one of the most extraordinary events you will ever witness. The 67-metre-long dragon is studded with thousands of burning joss sticks that at night produce an incredible spectacle of fire, smoke and dynamic fury as the dragon wends and dances through the backstreets of Tai Hang. This year the dance has been extended along Tung Lo Wan Road to create more viewing space. With traditional flag dances and local participants banging drums and cymbals and juggling joss sticks alongside the dragon, it's a visually and aurally stunning experience!

The three-day event commemorates a series of mishaps that befell Tai Hang in 1880 culminating in a plague breaking out in the village. 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 firecrackers dispelled the plague and the ritual has been repeated annually ever since."

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2006 National Day Fireworks Display

Place: Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong

Equipment: Canon 30D, Canon EF17-40 4L USM

In celebration of the 57 th anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China , a 23-minute 2006 National Day Fireworks Display (二零零六年國慶煙花匯演) held on 1 October 2006 , Sunday, at 9:15 pm at the Victoria Harbour The fireworks display is sponsored by the Mission Hills Golf Club and coordinated by the Home Affairs Bureau.