What are those Drunken Men doing?
At around 11:30 a.m. on yesterday, I planned to buy some porks, fishes in the RED Market for preparing a nice lunch originally. When I went to there, then I noticed those porks and fishes booths will be closed for a few days. Why? For what?
AH....it was the meaning event --- Feast of the Drunken Dragon was celebrated. That's why I saw so many elderly women, so many visitors and of course those drunken fishermen were dancing there. Thus, I stopped at there to be one of the audience and took some photos. I thought it's worth to enjoy it under a very HOT Sunny day, also the first time for me to see the whole ceremony in Macau.
Have a look at this not-so-good slideshow album.
3 Comments:
PP, interesting. Thanks for sharing that. Is there a legend behind it?
U are welcome, Happy. It is a unique local event which is happen by fish traders on 8th day of April in the Lunar Year.
The origins of the festival date back thousands of years when it is said that a group of plague sufferers were attacked by a python that leapt from the river when they were on their way to pray to Buddha for deliverance from their illness. A Buddhist monk appeared before them and cut the python into three pieces, tossing them back into the river. But the river began to bubble and the wind begins to whip up a storm and the three pieces rose into the sky with a clap of thunder. The party was miraculously cured of the plague and it is believed that they were saved by a divine dragon. To this day, the Feast of the Drunken Dragon continues to be a popular and important religious ceremony which begins early in the morning and sees devotees drink alcohol to the good health of the dragon.
Sources are from local news
PinkP! Yay, you're blogging again!
This was very interesting - I haven't heard of this event before. Loved your photos too. I like drunken kung fu - it looks so uncoordinated, but actually, more control is needed.
Thanks for the history too - I love old Chinese legends :)
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