To experience the festive atmosphere of Mid-Autumn Festival, you can visit Lee Tung Street in Wan Chai! This year, Lee Tung Street presents the “Leaping Rabbit‧Welcoming the Moon” outdoor lantern exhibition. From now until October 23rd, over 800 Chinese-style lanterns with auspicious and celebratory designs will be hung. This year, for the first time, lanterns in different shapes such as jade rabbits, goldfish, and starfruits have been added, transforming the 200-meter long tree-lined avenue into a dazzling lantern sea!
Due to the epidemic, the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival fire dragon dance, which has been absent for three years, is returning. Guo Wenlong, the head coach of the Guo’s Kung Fu Golden Dragon Lion Dance Team, will lead his team to perform an 18-meter-long LED dance fire dragon on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival (September 29th). The performance will also include smoke effects, which are very festive! The “fire dance” will start from the Lee Tung Street Plaza towards Queen’s Road East at 8:30 pm that evening, then dance to the entrance of Johnston Road, and finally return to the Lee Tung Street Plaza. The parade will last for one hour, and along the way, there will be LED lion dance and drum performances at various locations.
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On the eve of Mid-Autumn Festival, there will also be multiple “Dragon Dance Cultural Experience Classes” held, where you can personally experience and learn the basic skills of dancing with a fire dragon. By registering as a member of Lee Tung Street for free, you can redeem one spot for the “Dragon Dance Cultural Experience Class” with 200 electronic points. You can also redeem one spot on-site by spending HK$300 with electronic currency and following Lee Tung Street’s social media platforms.
In addition, Lee Tung Street will also hold a variety of festive activities on weekends in September, including charity handicraft markets, free workshops, and music performances, to celebrate the festival with the public. At the same time, they will also offer various benefits, such as exchanging receipts for small lanterns, dining and shopping vouchers. In addition, on September 29th, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and September 30th, during the designated time for moon watching, customers who present their receipts from Lee Tung Street merchants on the same day and follow Lee Tung Street’s social media platforms will receive a small lantern as a gift.
Lee Tung Street “Dragon Dance Cultural Experience Class”:
Date and Time: (30 minutes per session)
September 17 and 23 | 2pm, 2:45pm, 3:30pm, 7pm, 7:45pm, and 8:30pm
September 24 | 7pm, 7:45pm, and 8:30pm
September 29 | 4pm, 4:45pm, and 5:30pm
