Last month, award-winning actor Hugh Jackman attended Hong Kong’s Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance during the Mid-Autumn Festival. His visit was part of the promotion for his latest film Pan, a retelling of the children’s classic Peter Pan.
Hugh happens to be the first international celebrity to lead the parade by holding the Fire Dragon Pearl. With 100 years of authentic cultural heritage history, the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance is Hong Kong’s second most famous local cultural tradition during the Mid-Autumn Festival besides feasting on mooncakes and strolling through a lantern exhibition.
The spectacular dragon dance is usually made up of a 76 meters long dragon comprising over 70,000 sticks of incense and is played by 300 performers.
