Hong Kong, Dragon dance for the Tin Hau FestivalA Chinese dragon dance winds its way through crowds of spectators on a street in Yuen Long during celebrations for the Taoist Tin Hau Festival. Original Manuscript Caption: Amid clashing cymbals and rolling drums comes a 100ft. dragon dancing and twisting down the street. Shop owners and schoolboys, housewives and factory workers all stop what they are doing; even the bus has to pull up on one side of the street, to watch the parade on the main street of Youen Long during the Tin Hau Festival, 1963. 2005/010/1/11/33.

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Dragon dance for the Tin Hau festival

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