Date: Saturday, 3 Oct 2009
Venue: Tin Hau MTR Exit A1
Time check: 5.49pm. Seeking directions to my destination..JPG)
Found an eatery along the way, so I decided to have my dinner first..JPG)
6.20pm: I found the "entrance" to Tai Hang.
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Saw this 莲花宫 along the way.
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Passed by a small stall selling this cute dragon toy.
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6.40pm: Look at the crowd already waiting for the event!
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7.30pm: Finally a sign of 敲锣打鼓！
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The troupe even included little boys!
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Almost 8pm... Finally a sign of some procession!
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火龙在哪儿啊？
8.35pm: The event finally started at the other end of the street.
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Check out the video!
8.45pm: 插满香火的火龙终于出现！
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8.45pm: 插满香火的火龙终于出现！
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火龙过后，碎花落地。
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The dragon dance was only 10 mins! 不是吧？我等了两个多小时咧！
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照亮这些的，原来是蜡烛！
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9.10pm: 火龙从现！
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差不多烧尽的香从火龙身上拔出来后，街民会接过，然后拜拜，应该是求保平安吧。
插过新香火的龙尾，准备再起舞！
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10.10pm: 真的觉得这段中華小姐很无聊。
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So tired... I've been on my feet for 4 hours already! Really amazed at how the Hong Kong people had patience for this, so much waiting just for a short moment of dragon dance.
10.20pm: 又见火龙！
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The photos can't show how long the fire dragon was. Check out the video!
10.25pm: 受不了了！我的膝盖和腰酸得不得了。走离开时，感觉不到我的脚了...
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P/S: This is post #300! Woohoo!
5 comments:
wow ur HK days really quite event full!! the guo tie looks really nice!!
Actually I stayed in the whole weekend, except Sat late afternoon made my way to Tai Hung and killed my legs standing for abt 5 hours in total.
The dinner was quite nice, and considerably cheap too.
what's the occasion? what's the event for?
I guess all the standing at concerts r just prelude to these...heh heh
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The Tai Hang Fire Dragon has its origin in 1880. At that time, Tai Hang was only a small Hakka village and the villagers, most of them farmers and fishermen, led a simple and peaceful life. The tale started when the villagers once killed a serpent in a stormy night, but in the next morning, the dead body of the serpent had disappeared. A few days later, a plague spread out in Tai Hang and many people died of infection. Meanwhile, a village elder saw Buddha one night in his dream and was told to perform a Fire Dragon Dance and to burn fire crackers in the Mid-Autumn Festival. The sulphur in the fire crackers drove away the disease and the villagers were saved. Since then, every year the Tai Hang residents would perform the Fire Dragon Dance for three nights in the Mid-Autumn Festival in memory of the incident. The Fire Dragon is altogether 220 feet long with its body divided into 32 segments, all of which are stuffed with straw and stuck full of incense sticks, so it is known as the “ Fire-Dragon”.
http://www.taihangfiredragon.hk/about.htm
I see...thank you teacher Xiaohui!
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