The Traditional Dragon Craft Parade by Islanders of Hong Kong, Has a Significant Underlying Meaning

The Traditional Dragon Craft Parade by Islanders of Hong Kong, Has a Significant Underlying Meaning
Villagers from Sai-Wan CARE Village of Cheung-Chau kept a 200+ years old tradition of holding the Dragon Parade on Dragon Boat Festival (Double Fifth Festival), a major cultural event of the locals. Photo taken in June 2021 off Cheung-Chau (Dumbbell Island), Hong Kong. (TM Chan/The Epoch Times)
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June 22 brought this year’s Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Double Fifth Festival, as it falls on the fifth day of the fifth month in the Chinese calendar.

Apart from those delicious “rice dumplings” wrapped in lotus leaves, the dragon boat parade is another feature that makes the festival exciting. Yet you might not be familiar with, or have heard of, the famous Dragon Parade during the festival in Hong Kong’s Dumbbell Island (Cheung Chau).