Sunday, May 18, 2008

Tam Kung Festival

May 11: The Tam Kung Festival overtakes Shau Kei Wan district on Hong Kong Island May 11-12, 2008. My bus arrives at the Shau Kei Wan terminal just as Dragon dancers lead a paper serpent from Tam Kung Temple into a nearby park.

The park hosts a shadow puppet show, puppet show, Sichuan mask-changing, Chinese magic, lion dragon dance, thousand-arm Guanyin dance, Chinese music/ orchestra.

The lion Dance is especially cool. Muscular youths and small children dance underneath lion/dragon costumes. The older boy at the back of the costume often lifts the child high into the air to shake the costume’s monster head. Two pair of lion/dragons circle the crowd. They climb atop metal pillars and continue their routine, dancing and leaping.



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