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Drunken Dragon Dance pic.: Drunk Men Dancing w/ Drunk Dragon, source: Macautourismdotnet Today is Buddha's Feast (Lunar April 8th), a public holiday for HK/Macau but I am toiling mentally in office. Both in HK and Macau there are big ceremonies to celebrate. Yet in China there is no such festivity. Concerns have been raised that China should enshrine more traditinal holidays to avoid the dying of traditions. Quite right. In Macau, we have the very characteristic celebration -- Drunken Dragon Dance by dancers, usually thewy men who dance w/ the long dragon, while dancing while pouring rice wine until drunk. Hence, the dance becomes wild, full of masculine power. This celerbration was rooted from fishermen's custom, now feasted by fish vendors. Today, all the fresh stocks markets are closed and ppl fm every walk of society queue up in the fierce sun in the marketplace to get a share of Dragon Head Rice, which, is believed to bring good luck to eaters all the year long. p.s. I would find a Drunken Dragon Dance pic later. 
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goal, For what reason? just to try the drunk dragon dance? be a fisherman must lead the life 'one day shore 10 years on the sea.' Roam, Thanks for your debut appearance here. Yeah, a sad scene 'Chinese are worshiping theirs from food to name brands.' Tip-to-toe westernized is not good for China. I am reading a book 'the great encounters of China and the West' featuring 1600-1800. Previously, Chinese were cautious on accepting western things. But now is reversed. When we saw S. Korea enlisted Duan Wu Festival (Lunar 5th May) as an intangible world heritage, some Chinese rebuked Koreans for stealing our cultural heritage away. But if we dont act up, more and more will be claimed by other EA countries and more and more traditional cultures will be extinct. Then, hula, China, a lost land of M's, KFCs, Pradas, Nikes, Hollywoods.... I am always an advocate of good traditions and values, seeking balance btw infusing the best fm east and west, except that for time efficient reason, I have to type English i/o Chinese. But we have many HK Chinese here are pround of not knowing a word of Mandarin.
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