Gazette 143
HONG KONG Mid Autumn Festival 2015
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SATURDAY 26 September
![Fire Dragon drummers]](3.jpg)
Tai Hang Fire Dragon Sign / Drummers summoning the dragon
Little girls bearing lanterns welcoming the dragon / The drumming speeds up as the time for the dragon to appear approaches
More lanterns plus Scottish bagpipes...
...& drummers / We get a glimpse of the dragon's tail as it dives down a side street
The Tai Hang Fire Dragon is a 67m long straw head & tail in 32 sections. The head alone weighs 48kg. The dragon is
covered with 70 000 lit incense sticks & is carried by nearly 300 performers. It runs & dances around a maze of small
streets in what was once a small fishing village. The tradition, always coinciding with Mid Autumn Festival, has been
celebrated since the 1880s.
The body & tail finally disappear from view
Tai Hang Fire Dragon Sign / Drummers summoning the dragon
Little girls bearing lanterns welcoming the dragon / The drumming speeds up as the time for the dragon to appear approaches
More lanterns plus Scottish bagpipes...
...& drummers / We get a glimpse of the dragon's tail as it dives down a side street
The Tai Hang Fire Dragon is a 67m long straw head & tail in 32 sections. The head alone weighs 48kg. The dragon is
covered with 70 000 lit incense sticks & is carried by nearly 300 performers. It runs & dances around a maze of small
streets in what was once a small fishing village. The tradition, always coinciding with Mid Autumn Festival, has been
celebrated since the 1880s.
The body & tail finally disappear from view
Photographs © Derek & Sheila Henderson 2015