Young people took to the streets of Hong Kong on Monday for the emblematic Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance hoping to bring a new generation to the 145-year-old tradition. Each year during the Mid-Autumn Festival,

Big crowds gathered to watch a traditional festival in Hong Kong Monday night, commemorating the fire dragon, a memory of a past plague. The dragon is made out of meters of straw, with incense sticks packed into it,

Thousands of excited Hongkongers and visitors lined the streets of Causeway Bay to watch an expanded fire dragon dance on Tuesday evening while others thronged the Wan Chai waterfront for the city’s first drone show to mark the Mid-Autumn Festival,

In our interview with the current troupe commander of the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance, we learned that this festival dates back over 140 years. As the legend goes, in 1880, a plague swept through the traditionally Hakka village of Tai Hang.

On the evening of Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls each year on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar, villagers from Pok Fu Lam Village on the southwestern edge of Hong Kong Island parage through the narrow lanes with a fire dragon to pray for well-being.

Hong Kong celebrates mid-autumn festival with the Fire Dragon Dance Hong Kong celebrates its mid-autumn festival, which follows a successful harvest, with the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance. The dance features more than 300 performers parading a 67-metre-long dragon through the grid-like streets of the Tai Hang district.