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Members of fire dragon team take part during the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance Festival in Hong Kong. All Photos Getty Images -
In the 19th century the people in the village of Tai Hang believed they miraculously stopped a plague with a fire dragon dance. -
It has become an annual tradition, where up to 300 performers dance the fire dragon, made up of 72,000 sticks of burning incense and a 67-metre-long dragon, through the narrow streets of Tai Hang. -
Young girls with lotus lanterns take part in the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance Festival. -
Members of the fire dragon dance team perform the Fire Dragon Dance to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. -
Members of the fire dragon dance team arrange joss sticks onto the dragon during the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance Festival. -
Members of the fire dragon dance team pray in the Lin Fa Temple at the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance Festival. -
Members of the fire dragon dance team perform the Fire Dragon Dance to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. -
Members of the fire dragon dance team hold a lantern during the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance Festival. -
Members of the fire dragon dance team arrange joss sticks onto the dragon during the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance Festival. -
Members of the fire dragon dance team perform the Fire Dragon Dance to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. -
Members of fire dragon team take part during the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance Festival.
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In the 19th century, people in Tai Hang believed they stopped a plague with a fire dragon dance, so every year they replicate the ritual
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