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Victor submitted a highly descriptive post on the recent but rare Fire Dragon dance where an 88 metre long straw dragon went up in flames, taking its devotees’ ills along with it.
Here are some photos of that three-hour dramatic event.
Cantonese opera from Hong Kong
Members of the band
Camera equipped mobile phones galore
The dragon has risen
More pics taken during this dramatic event can be found in the photo gallery.
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Wow! Looks like it was a real happening event. How did you and Victor come to know about it?
Posted on March 6th, 2006 at 7:24 am
Hi there,
The event was featured in Shin Min newspaper on 28th Feb and Victor posted a translation of the article to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/singaporeheritage on that same day.
If you’d like to be informed about temple-related activities, you can also sign up with taoism-singapore-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
Posted on March 6th, 2006 at 7:32 am
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